Clare will field a team showing two personnel changes when they try to upset hot favourites Cork in Sunday's Munster SFC final.

THERE’S some big games to be played as the year comes to an end with matches all scheduled to take place on the Bank Holiday Monday.

THERE will be a somewhat unfamiliar look to this year’s Clare SFC final a week on Sunday.

THERE will be a somewhat unfamiliar look to this year’s Clare SFC final a week on Sunday.

THERE’S roughly 137 miles separating Liam McHale’s home in Ballina in north Mayo and the village of Cooraclare in the west of Clare. In the winter he embarks on that route two nights every week to the pitch which is the epicentre for the Banner county’s football preparations.

Former Kildare footballer Niall Browne will make his Munster SFC debut when he lines out for Clare against Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday (throw-in 3.30pm).

Kerry 0-13 Clare 1-17

Clare 1-10 Waterford 0-10

THE Cratloe-Crusheen clash in tomorrow’s Clare SHC final (Cusack Park, Ennis, 3.30pm) reinforces the sense of a power shift in Banner hurling, from traditional powerhouses to newer forces.

Waterford 1-10 Clare 0-9, Dungarvan

CLARE manager Micheal McDermott has named three championship debutants for Sunday afternoon’s Munster SFC quarter-final against Waterford in Fraher Field, Dungarvan.

IT is 56 years since Mick O’Dwyer had his first involvement with inter-county football, lining out for the Kerry minors against Cork in the Munster championship.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE boss Michael McDermott is optimistic long-serving attacker Odhrán O’Dwyer will be fit for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Tír Chonaill Gaels in Ruislip.

IT was celebration time in the GAA on Sunday on the exact date of that famous meeting in Hayes Hotel in Thurles 125 years ago.

Clare SHC Final: Clonlara 1-9 Cratloe 3-5

It is up to the Director of Public Prosecutions to decide whether to appeal three-month jail terms handed down to two men who kicked a librarian to within an inch of his life, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said today.

Two men who assaulted a librarian on Grafton Street in Dublin were today sent to prison for three months.

An orthopaedic surgeon told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury that a Sligo man was very lucky to survive an alleged assault on him with the few side effects he experienced.

The last of three men held for questioning by gardai investigating an assault on a librarian as he pushed his bicycle through the centre of Dublin last month, was released last night without charge.

Three men in their twenties have been arrested in connection with an assault in the city earlier this month which left a 35-year-old librarian seriously ill.

GARDAÍ suspect that a father of two who was murdered in front of his girlfriend over the weekend was not the victim of a gangland killing.

TWO high-profile sports stars, who represent Ireland at international level, have given statements to gardaí investigating a late-night street assault that has left a man fighting for his life.

PEOPLE have to change their unhealthy attitude to alcohol, President Mary McAleese warned yesterday.

Gardaí investigating a serious assault on a cyclist on Dublin’s Grafton Street have been contacted by three men who made statements on the incident.

DETECTIVES are believed to have identified from CCTV footage three young men suspected of carrying out a vicious assault that left a Sligo man fighting for his life.