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

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.

Mick O'Dwyer is set to return to inter-county football management as Clare's new boss, with his appointment expected at next week's County Board meeting.

Legendary Kerry boss Mick O’Dwyer is in contention to make a sensational return to football management with Clare.

Liam Kearns has ruled himself out of the running to become the next Clare football manager.

Michéal McDermott has stepped down as Clare football manager after three seasons in charge.

Football managerial revolution — it’s been coming for quite some time now.

A mismatch of some scale this, so does that excuse the Kerry management for falling asleep like the rest of us early in the second half?

Clare manager Micheal McDermott said he and his team were in “bonus territory” despite losing yesterday’s Munster SFC final to Cork and the Cavan native backed them to concentrate on their qualifier clash.

It seems an odd one at first.

Clare boss Micheal McDermott says this Sunday’s Munster SFC final is a “big, big ask”.

Clare senior football manager Micheal McDermott has spoken out against proposals to resume seeding the Munster SFC.

Former Clare defender Seamus Clancy says a return to a seeded Munster SFC would be “a kick in the teeth” for the province’s smaller football counties.

Cork goalkeeper Alan Quirke has vowed his side will remain grounded after yesterday’s win over Kerry.

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.

The mission facing the Clare football squad travelling to Aughrim tomorrow is simple. Avoid defeat and they will realise their ambition of securing promotion to Division 3.

They have been down this road before so forgive Micheal McDermott for being cautious.

CLARE hurling boss Davy Fitzgerald has been praised for his open-minded approach which will see senior attacker Cathal McInerney available to line out for the Banner U21 footballers next Wednesday night in the Gaelic Grounds as they face a Munster quarter-final against Limerick.

TEN MONTHS after hobbling off in Pearse Stadium with a snapped cruciate ligament for the second time in his career, Colm O’Neill announced his return to the inter-county senior stage in style yesterday in Páirc Uí Rinn.

CLARE senior boss Micheal McDermott has been boosted by the presence of five members of county senior champions Kilmurry-Ibrickane in his squad for the McGrath Cup campaign which begins on Sunday against UL in Doonbeg.

PREPARING Garrycastle for a second Leinster club football final in three years in what could be his last game in charge would be enough to keep most managers occupied. But Anthony Cunningham’s been getting accustomed to multi-tasking since he his appointment as John McIntyre’s successor over the Galway hurlers in late October.

MICHEÁL McDERMOTT is set to focus exclusively on the Clare senior footballers in the wake of Monaleen’s exit from the Munster club championship on Sunday.

IT took over 80 minutes of absorbing action before the contest was settled in Cloughduv yesterday with UCC’s greater energy and ball retention skills proving decisive in this Munster Club SFC quarter-final.

HE’S been down this road before.

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.

IT may not have been a footballing classic but few in Monaleen will complain after successfully defending their Limerick SFC crown at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

OLLIE BAKER is set to follow his former Clare All-Ireland-winning teammates Davy Fitzgerald and Anthony Daly into inter-county senior management, after being recommended by an Offaly County Board appointments committee to succeed Joe Dooley as the county’s new manager.

DAVY FITZGERALD will be ratified as the new Clare senior hurling manager at their next county board meeting on October 11, after it was confirmed to club delegates in the West County Hotel in Ennis last night that the legendary All-Ireland-winning goalkeeper was the only nominee to fill the role vacated by Ger O’Loughlin in July.

MICKEY HARTE has made three changes to the Tyrone team that beat Roscommon for tomorrow’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Dublin. Justin McMahon replaces Ryan McMenamin, while Martin Penrose and Owen Mulligan come in for Tommy McGuigan and Kyle Coney.

CLARE’S GAA community was in shock last night after the sudden death of senior inter-county footballer Niall White.

CLARE boss Micheal McDermott accepts he and his management team face a massive task to motivate their charges for the All-Ireland qualifiers.

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.

EOIN Brosnan will make his first appearance in championship football since the 2009 Munster semi-final replay, in next Sunday’s provincial quarter-final against Tipperary after being named at centre-back in the Kingdom starting fifteen last night.

NEMO Rangers’ All-Ireland senior football aspirations have received a massive boost with attacker Paul Kerrigan set to be fit in time for Saturday week’s club semi-final tie against Connacht champions St Brigid’s in the Gaelic Grounds.

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.

THERE were few signs of celebrations amongst the local football support after Saturday’s McGrath Cup final in Dr Crokes grounds in Killarney.

McGrath Cup Final

Clare 1-10 Waterford 0-10

KERRY will have home advantage for next Saturday night’s McGrath Cup final against Clare following yesterday’s semi-final victory over Cork in Killarney.

CLARE boss Micheál McDermott may be able to call on the services of three new recruits for Sunday’s McGrath Cup semi-final against Waterford.

CLARE football boss Micheal McDermott is confident that the GAA’s Central Council will look favourably this weekend on their request to become eligible for the scheme which allows players to declare for the home county of their parents.

CLARE football chiefs will look to second generation talent to aid the county cause for the upcoming McGrath Cup and National League campaigns.

HE may be lost to Tipperary hurling right now, but Liam Sheedy is still very much in the limelight.

The season is not long over and already there has been plenty of movement on the management merry-go-round ahead of 2011’s campaign, writes Fintan O’Toole.