Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

Clare Football Panel 2025

1. Stephen Ryan
2. Manus Doherty
3. Cillian Brennan
4. Ronan lanigan.
5. Alan sweeney
6. Cillian rouine
7. Gavin Murray
   
8. Daniel Walsh.
9. Brian McNamara
10. Ikem ugureu.
11. Ciaran downes.
12. Dermot coughlin.
13. Mark McInerney
14. Emmett McMahon
15. Aaron Griffen
16. Cormac Murray
17. Joe mcgann.
18. Diarmuid O'Donnell
19. Cian burke
20. Tom McDonald
21. Michael Garry.
    
22. Eoin Cleary
23. Darren Nagle.
24. Einnie O'Connor.
25. Jamie stack.
26. shane griffin
    
27. tristan o callaghan
28. Keelan Sexton
29. Tadhg Lillis
30. Cillian McGroary
    
31. Fionn Kelleher
32. Sean McAllister
33. Darragh Burns
34. Rory McMahon
35. Colm Walsh O’Loughlin
36. Evan Cahill
37. Joe Rafferty
38. Eoghan Casey
39. Thomas Collins
40. Eamonn Tubridy
41. Dean Devanney
42. Connor Meaney
43. Darragh Killeen

Darragh Bohanan (away for the year )

challenge game in clarecastle finished Galway 1-30 Clare 1-24

Match program was all over the place , Colm O'Meara got the clare goal after being introduced off the bench , jack O'Neill was excellent , delighted to see his club mate coneally back after a long layoff , another really promising player , hopefully he gets plenty of chances in the league has the potential to make a similar impact as conor leen did last year

This was the starting lineup

1,Cian Broderick

2.Ian McNamara

3. Darragh Lohan

4. John Conneally

5. Jack O Neill

6. Ross Hayes

7. Cian Galvin

8.Sean Rynne

9. Paddy Donnellan

10. Gearoid Sheedy

11. David Conroy

12. Jack Kirwan

13. Rian Considine

14. Aaron Shanagher

15. Shane Meehan

no this young lad is from doonbeg , a very good corner back , i think he was invited into the panel last year but declined the offer , hopefully he commits fully this year , he was very good for doonbeg in the club championship this year

• hard to know what Lohan has planned, I think he will change keepers, Foudy is probably the best keeper in the county but screwed up badly against Tipperary a few years ago but his club form is keeping him in the picture

• daragh Lohan slotted in full back for the all Ireland final I reckon he will play a few league games at full back, John coneally and jack O'Neil are promising prospects from the last 2 u20 teams , Cathal Malone is only back on the panel and played no club championship , Lohan will always play 6 or 7 regulars while looking at younger lads so I expect the likes of Adam Hogan , mark Rodgers , David McInerney ,David reidy and Arron shanagher to start

• this is only a guess I have heard nothing from the panel

• 1.Eamon Foudy

• 2.Adam Hogan

• 3.Darragh Lohan

• 4.John Conneally

• 5.Jack O Neill

• 6.David McInerney

• 7.Cian Galvin

• 8.Sean Rynne

• 9.Cathal Malone

• 10.David Fitzgerald

• 11.Jack Kirwan

• 12.David Reidy

• 13.Mark Rodgers

• 14.Aaron Shanagher

• 15Shane Meehan

yeah himself and moylan are big prospects, big leagues ahead for billy drennan and Jordan Morris to try and nail down a starting place come championship and back up there underage form, gearoid Dunne probably has his place secured I imagine

Senior Football

1. Eamonn Tubridy, Doonbeg
2. Ronan Lanigan, Eire Og.
3. Aaron Fitzgerald, Eire Og
4. Kevin Harnett, Cratloe.
5. Andrew Shannon KIB.
6. Cian Mahoney, Miltown
7. Ciaran Russell, Eire Og
8. Darren O’Neill, Eire Og.
9. Conor Ryan; Cratloe
10. Dermot Coughlan KIB.
11. Cathal McInerney, Cratloe
12. Tom McDonald, Doors/B
13. Gavin Cooney, Eire Og
14. Colm Walsh O'Loughlin Eire Og
15. Diarmuid Fahy, Ennistymon

Intermediate Football

1. David Jones, Kilrush
2. Paddy Clancy, O'Currys
3. Aaron Kelly, Wolfe Tones
4. Niall Walsh, The Banner
5. Aaron Brennan Wolfe Tones
6. Jayme O’Sullivan Wolfe Tones
7. Adam Haugh, Naomi Eoin
8. Michael Garry, Cooraclare
9. Thomas Clancy, O'Currys
10. Thomas Meenagha The Banner
11. Brian McNamara, Cooraclare
12. Niall Bonfil. Naomh Eoin
13. Gearoid O'Brien, kilrush
14. Owen Lynch, Naomh Eoin
15. Craig Riordan, Wolfe Tones

A tricky tie in belfast to open the league for peter keane , delighted to see eamon tubridy back in goals , probably the best keeper in the county was harshly overlooked in the past , sean mcallister and fionn killiher come in on good under age form over the last couple of years , the new rules will definitely suit , great to see eoin cleary and keelan sexton back , i expect manus to spend a lot of time at wing back too .

Antrim are no mugs , ryan McQuillan , the aghagallon version of ruari mccann is a top class forward that will thrive under the new rules , his exact double ruari mccann from creggan is a serious worker and will run all day , as will dermot McAleese and Joe Finnegan at half back ,

a really tough game awaits from a side that pushed us all the way in the park last year and pushed Meath 2 years ago and laois last year all the way in the tailtenn cup semi finals , heres the clare team

it wasnt a great game to watch but a perfect introduction for lads like jack o'neill to be going up against paddy deagen and hold his own , made a few mistakes positionally in the first half and once or twice took too much out of possession at times but minor faults and worked really hard

i was impressed with ian mcnamara , he sometimes would find himself behind his man but would recover well , john conneally probably struggled on gearoid dunne but dune is going to be an excellent forward if he continues from his underage form

david conroy was excellent at times i taught which surprised me a little , cian galvin is starting to show levels of experience now too , he had a brilliant second half , smyth got a couple of excellent scores after he came on too i taught , donal has some work done up there with the underage coaching ( i presume he was involved with killineana ) because smyth and ian mc look like options off the bench for later in the year already

ross hayes did very well after he came on for david mc and has earned his starting place for the next day ,paddy donnellan had a fine game too after he came on , his distribution to the inside line is his strong point every ball he played into the forwards found a man , his delivery of the ball is excellent and got a fine score as well

with the power cuts yesterday i was half thinking of going up , only a few went up , and thanks to deride murphys regimental approach to live streaming the game to players and parents , if the squad players or families wanted to see the game they had to make there way to the falls road

i spoke to one parent that went up , he said it was a bad day above weatherwise , stormey and a crossfield wind , shooting from distance was out , and antrim were very defensive , brian mac had a really good game which is no surprise , and my club mate kicked ciaran downes kicked 1-1 , but emmett had been flying the last few weeks ,especially kicking scores from outside the arc only scored a point from play , it was impossible given the conditions today

by the sound of what i am hearing its going to take us a while to get to terms with the new rules , but i still see us with a promotion shout given we have 4 home games and 2 away games ahead of us

id say kildare will win the division handy , fermanagh are good but getting old and offaly have serious talent coming through but dont know how to use it , it would seem , i imagine kildare will top the group and a traffic jam for second place , we should be in that jam but whether we make the lights or not is another story

to start with peter McDonald had a brilliant game , he was being targeted by cathal malone who was one of our few seasoned players playing today , and got the better of him , mossy was excellent in the first half in particular got some great scores especially 0-9 0-2 0-9 0-4 points down ,

it was a low tempo game a bit like the old waterford crystal games in early january but it was much tougher battle , i think gearoid dunne had a fine game after he came on , he was being marked by john conneally , he set up one score and scored a blinder , coneally is fairly close to adam hogan in terms of ability and was hogans replacement last year at u20 level

there is good players coming through but if they still struggle against hue lawlor or mikey butler or gearoid dunne we still have plenty of work to do ,

did you go up last week ? i was half thinking about going up last saturday with the power out but sensibly saw sense , the electricity came back shortly after my brain wave and i went to the hurling sunday instead

Clare 2-17 Leitrim 0-10

A comfortable win in cusack park for the footballers , brian mcnamara failed a fitness test before the game which left midfield light , ikem went midfield and cillian McCrorey was drafted in , the goals came from ikem and alan sweeney halfway through the second half , eoin cleary kicked 2 2 pointers and took his tally overall to 6 points , a positive performance without brian mc and dermot coughlin

clare ratings

1. Eamon Tubridy. (7): most of his kickouts to midfield were turned over with no brian mc but got involved well up the field
2. Manus Doherty. (8). Keeped his man quiet all day and won some crucial turnovers
3. cillian brennan (7.) Again not overly troubled by his marker but held the line well
4. Cillian Rouine (6) Worked tirelessly hard but made some desperate errors , one very nearly led to a leitrim goal
5. Cillian Mcgorey (7) Drafted in at the last minute and worked hard , a really good league debut
6. Fionn Kelliher (7) Didn't get involved as much as he normally would but held the fort well at the same time
7. Alan Sweeney (8) took his goal well but was a stand out player long before he scored it
8. Sean McAllister (6) Struggled in midfield on his own with no brian mc but took his score well
9. Ikem Ugweuru (6) not a midfielder and struggled all day but scored a brilliant goal to make up for it
10. Eoin Cleary . (8) Man of the match especially on his first half performance
11. Emmett McMahon (7) another solid performance chipped in with 3 points from play
12. Daniel Walsh (7) Worked hard all day and took his score well despite playing a more withdrawn role
13. Ciaran Downes (6) covered huge amounts of ground but his shooting let him down at times
14. Aaron Griffin (7) The best of the front 3 forwards got a couple of great scores either side of half time
15. Keelan Sexton (6) A frustrating day for keelan was double marked all day and got very little scoring opportunities
16. subs , out of the 5 subs introduced , evan cahill and conor meaney made the biggest impacts cahill set up sweneys goal and meaney steamed the tide in midfield under the leitrim kickouts , roary mcmahon , cormac murray and shane griffin were the other late introductions

Line ups for tonight's game, I would expect to see two changes in that Clare team with both Adam Hogan and Conor leen both carrying knocks

Leen went off late in the Kilkenny game and Hogan is also rumoured to be out, John Coneeley and Rory Hayes would be the likely replacements although it's possible daragh Lohan will drop back to full back again

Bit of pressure on the front men to show up tonight, Shane Meehan and Aaron shanagher were quite against Kilkenny by there own standards, and Patrick Crotty struggled with Mikey Carey so it's a big game for him to put that right

Despite the indifferent start Cianan Fahey , Gavin lee have both been excellent for the tribesmen and it's highly likely Declan McLoughlin will feature if not start after last weeks performance in Nolan park, the Galway forwards are much stronger then ours tonight so it will be a battle if nothing else

Footballers face Fermanagh in the park tomorrow , the visitors had a poor start in round 1 against kildare and made about 5 changes for the win the last day against antrim , brian mc is named to start for clare which is a huge addition as we really struggled in midfield in his absence against leitrim , he will have his hands full keeping tabs on darragh mcgurn who had a serious game against antrim

forwards , garvan jones , ulten kelim and conor love will be the main dangers whille josh largo ellis is the type of hard working forward that will love these new rules , sean Cassidy is back from injury but only on the bench is probably fermanaghs best forward when fully fit

the young clare bench looks strong if players need to be called upon but michael garry and dermot coughlin are still a big loss not to have , a tough game instore ,i am intressted to see how fermanagh take to the new rules they were one of the tightest defending teams in the country under the older format

bohanann is a huge loss but keane had 3 options for midfield to cover brian mc and didnt against leitrim , now in fairness the game was never in danger at any point but why put ikem in midfield when daniel walsh emmett mcmahon or even ciaran downs could slot in there , i would argue for kilmihil downes played some of his best football for us a few years ago when senior there

we need to use the rotation of corner backs better too , its a waste having manus and cillian rouine not able to cross the half way line drop back daniel walsh or sean mccallister to let one of the other two lads up the field

in the munster final last year manus had david clifford constantly following him back down the field and took him out of the game as a result