New Clare football coach Ephie Fitzgerald believes he is entering the Banner set-up at just the right time.

ALL-IRELAND SFC ROUND 3B

To prove he is good enough to play inter-county football, twice a week Shane McGrath makes the two-and-a-half-hour journey from Dublin, where he was born and where he has played his club football all his life, to Clare, the county of his parents.

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Cork All-Ireland-winning footballer Paudie Kissane has became part of the Clare senior football backroom team.

The Clare County Board have given a ringing endorsement to Davy Fitzgerald's management, with the Sixmilebridge man set to be in charge of the county's senior hurlers for another three years.

Davy Fitzgerald is set to remain as Clare senior hurling manager for another three years following last night’s county board meeting.

We take a look at the vacant seats in counties countrywide.

Clare are anxious that Mick O’Dwyer’s selectors take charge of their footballers next year and continue the work done by the legendary Kerryman in his season with the Banner.

Martin Daly is regarded as Clare’s greatest ever forward; some would say their greatest ever footballer. But among a list of achievements the Lissycasey man clocked up for the Banner County, one stands out above the others

Mick O’Dwyer has called on Clare supporters to get behind the team as they bid to beat Division Four promotion rivals Limerick in Cusack Park, Ennis this Sunday (3pm).

Mick O’Dwyer is aiming to entice all players capable of performing at inter-county level to wear the Clare jersey.

Mick O'Dwyer, the most decorated manager in Gaelic football history, was ratified as the new Clare senior football boss in Ennis last night.

THE certainty that Mary Carmel was always there, minding the business and the kids, sent Mick O’Dwyer out the front door for 50 years with a gear bag and peace of mind.

Clare GAA chiefs will meet tonight to ratify Mick O’Dwyer as manager of the county senior footballers.

After 20 years only bits and pieces are fresh in his mind.

THE shame when a county doesn’t go on to win the All-Ireland is it can forget what got it within touching distance of winning the All-Ireland in the first place.

WATERFORD star Dan Shanahan will miss some the national hurling league this season for the first time in 13 years, but he’s hoping to come back fitter than ever to claim a starting place with the Déise.

COROFIN boss Ger Keane has criticised the timing of the provincial club championships as his side bid to retain their Connacht Club SFC title next Sunday.

Corofin (Galway) 2-13 Glencar/Manorhamilton (Leitrim) 0-9

Mountbellew-Moylough will enter the Galway Senior Football Championship final tomorrow as outsiders with many pundits, when they face reigning champions, Corofin in Tuam Stadium at 4pm.

BOTH John Kennedy and Mick Slocum are singing from the same hymn sheet ahead of tonight’s Munster MFC semi-finals.

Nemo Rangers 2-12 St Senan’s 1-6

WHAT’S left to be said about Nemo Rangers? When it comes to running a successful club, on and off the field, the Cork city machine are the template.

St Senan's, Kilkee 1-14 An Ghaeltacht 2-7

St. Senan’s Kilkee 3-8 Kilmurry-Ibrickane 1-9

Clare 1-6 Cork 0-8

IT MIGHT NOT have been pretty, but the historians won’t give a second thought to the quality of An Ghaeltacht’s first ever provincial football success.

DARA Ó CINNÉIDE won't have the buzz of winning a Sigerson Cup at this stage of his football career - but a Munster club SFC title with his beloved Gaeltacht tomorrow would provide ample compensation for the one missing medal.

ST SENANS, Kilkee (Clare) and Cahir (Tipperary) come head-to-head tomorrow at Cahir to decide An Ghaeltacht’s opponents in the Munster Club SFC final.

PEADAR MCMAHON is a man of steel. Flesh and blood predominantly, but the Kilrush man has a will and a shoulder of iron.

TIPPERARY senior football coach Tom McGlinchey is none too pleased at having to play Clare in the McGrath Cup final next Sunday.