Joe Hayes is unsure which provincial runners-up await Clare should Colm Collins’ side do the business in Markievicz Park this afternoon.

Experienced Clare star Enda Coughlan has emerged as a late injury concern ahead of Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final against Kerry at Fitzgerald Stadium — as manager Colm Collins vows the Banner will be competitive in Killarney.

Cork hurling selector Johnny Crowley is expecting a “huge backlash” from Wexford in their first round qualifier meeting on July 4.

Clare football’s injury crisis has robbed management of six first-team regulars for Sunday’s Munster championship semi-final against Cork.

Clare’s Enda Coughlan has been on the loneliest road since last summer.

Colm Collins has no fears Clare’s decision to not participate in the McGrath Cup will come back to haunt them as they begin their Division 3 campaign against Wexford on Sunday.

ALL-IRELAND SFC ROUND 3B

Clare 1-13 Kerry 1-17

Kerry 1-17 Clare 1-13

MUNSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL:

Clare 2-8 Waterford 2-8

ALLIANZ FL DIVISION 4 FINAL:

London 1-08 Clare 2-14

Limerick enjoy a four-point lead at the top of Allianz Football League Division 4 after emerging as slender 0-10 to 0-9 winners over Carlow this afternoon.

Offaly 2-05 Clare 0-13 David Tubridy contributed six quality points as Mick O’Dwyer’s Clare kept their promotion push alive with a vital victory over Offaly, one that was far more convincing than the scoreline suggests.

Dr Crokes (Kerry) 2-08 Kilmurry-Ibrickane (Clare) 0-13

Bluntly or succinctly? You call it but when John Kennedy took over Kilmurry-Ibrickane there was only one way he summed up his prospects.

Former Clare defender Noel Roche believes Mick O’Dwyer is the right man to convince all the best footballers in the county to turn out for the Banner.

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

It’s 20 years since Clare claimed only the second Munster senior football title in the county’s history and in theinterim, provincial final appearances have been rationed to the Banner County.

CROKES boss Harry O’Neill said yesterday that meeting UCC in the Munster club final was “probably the final everyone wanted”, given two of his players – Daithí Casey and Johnny Buckley – won Cork championship medals with the College earlier this season.

NO TARMAC melting on the roads and no throngs jamming all routes into Killarney yesterday, but an enthralling game nonetheless in this AIB Munster Club SFC semi-final at Dr Crokes ground.

UCC and Dr Crokes will meet in the final of the AIB Munster Club Senior Football Championship on December 4, following their respective semi-final wins over Moyle Rovers and Kilmurry-Ibrickane this afternoon.

JOHN KENNEDY is back on a familiar journey. During the three years that spanned his spell as Clare senior football manager earlier this decade, Kennedy was well-accustomed to the trip from his north Kerry home to the west coast of the Banner County.

CLARE football manager Michéal McDermott is hopeful that more members of county senior champions Kilmurry-Ibrickane will be part of his squad for the 2012 season.

SOMETIMES, it seems, you can have your cake and eat it. Kilmurry Ibrickane didn’t just claim a county title yesterday – their third in four attempts — they did so on the back of one of those once-in-a-lifetime team performances when everything falls into place.

THE Clare senior football title race began this weekend and Kilmurry-Ibrickane record a first round win over Kilmihil on Saturday.

CLARE football boss Micheal McDermott has dismissed suggestions that last year’s All-Ireland club finalists Kilmurry-Ibrickane are under represented on the current county senior football panel.

FOR the second successive year, Sean Buckley dons the captain’s armband on Munster senior football final day.

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.

AT the time it was a shattering experience, but St Gall’s club final loss four years ago has proven to be a defining moment in their football history.

LET’S be blunt. Yesterday’s All-Ireland club final was a very disappointing affair with few positives for fans of the game of football.

THIS afternoon’s football final pairing is a ringing endorsement of all that is positive about the All-Ireland club championship.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE are a formidable footballing outfit and St Gall’s will be under no illusions about that fact when they go head-to-head in today’s All-Ireland Club final.

EARLY season training with a twist. Enda Coughlan has grown accustomed to the hard slog during the months of February and March in recent years, trying to calibrate his body for the rigours of the football season ahead.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE captain Enda Coughlan believes his side’s recent practice in playing against 14 men was instrumental in achieving victory in Sunday’s bad-tempered All-Ireland Club SFC final against Portlaoise.

GIVEN its impoverished recent history, yesterday in the Gaelic Grounds was a momentous afternoon for Clare football.

Portlaoise (Laois) 0-8 Kilmurry-Ibrickane (Clare) 1-14

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE (Clare) 0-9 STRADBALLY (Waterford) 0-6

Clare are on the lookout for a new senior football manager, following Frank Doherty's resignation from the position after Saturday night's All-Ireland SFC qualifier defeat by Donegal.

Donegal 0-13 Clare 1-7