Cillian Brennan is Clare captain like his brother Gary before him, but that honour aside he’s just glad to be back at full fitness after missing the entire National League campaign writes Joe Ó Muircheartaigh It was a case of a footballing déjà vu for Cillian Brennan this year as he slowly but surely nursed his way back from a debilitating groin injury that curtailed him towards the end of last year’s inter-county season. It’s not that he was injured and didn’t kick a ball in the National League after emulating his older brother Gary by being named Clare captain for the 2024 season. Instead, it was in the role he was given during his rehab – he was on the pitch, even if it didn’t amount to game time because his incursions were confined to his Maor Foirne duties. “It brought me back to where I started,” the Clondegad man reflected this week. “When brought in 2016 in the …
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