Clare 2-28 University College Cork 1-04

Last Saturday night, Clare’s All-Ireland winning captain Patrick Donnellan spoke of a magnificent unbreakable bond between this Clare team and their manager, Davy Fitzgerald.

Kevin McStay has publicly declared his interest in becoming Kildare’s new senior football team manager.

Clare selector Mike Deegan “cannot understand” why defenders Cian Dillon and Patrick O’Connor have been excluded from the list of nominations for the GAA/GPA hurling All Stars.

SATURDAY, Sept 28, 2013, is a day Clare people will remember forever. It was the day we saw boys become men before our eyes in Croke Park.

Davy Fitzgerald claims he has been inundated with messages from outside Clare expressing criticism of referee Brian Gavin’s performance in Sunday’s All-Ireland drawn final.

Five years ago work on the revival of Clare hurling got underway in earnest. This weekend they are reaping the rewards — and even brighter times may lie ahead.

Pádraig Chaplin is fine-tuning the wiring in Setrights tavern.

July 25, 2004. Anthony Daly takes a red pen to the hurling manual and designates Alan Markham to a sweeping role in an All-Ireland quarter-final.

Refereeing and referees was a topic for discussion at the Clare media day on Wednesday, in advance of this year’s All-Ireland senior hurling final, selector Mike Deegan stating that the Clare management would try to have a meeting with the man in the middle before every game to try to ascertain what they will or won’t allow.

Clare selector Mike Deegan has revealed the management attempt to speak to referees prior to throw-ins to ascertain what they look out for in matches.

Cork’s lines all stood up to the task against Kilkenny at Semple Stadium yesterday

Jimmy Barry-Murphy has had some stick since he got the Cork management job, unfair criticism; this was an answer for a lot of people.

Ten is a big number, but 11 is a bigger one, emphasises Clare selector Mike Deegan about the Waterford team named to face them on Sunday.

Clare 1-15 Kilkenny 3-10,

Clare 1-22 Cork 1-16

It’s time logic began to enter the thinking of the GAA. We have two huge hurling games tomorrow but at venues 50 miles apart.

Clare selector Mike Deegan says the GAA could do more to publicise their ticket packages ahead of Sunday’s Munster SHC clash between the Banner and Waterford.

PAUL KINNERK is intent on holding a different type of dual status this year.

Just five weeks after his departure from Waterford was confirmed, Davy Fitzgerald has been officially announced as the new Clare senior hurling manager.

DAVY FITZGERALD wasratified by the Clare County Board as the county’s senior hurling manager last night, with the former goalkeeper unveiling Louis Mulqueen and Mike Deegan as his selectors.

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.

DAN SHANAHAN has hinted it’s in Waterford’s best interests to look outside the county once more for a manager. The 2007 hurler of the year was a big supporter of his former team-mate Fergal Hartley for the role before he pulled out of the running.

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

CHRISTMAS boxes which military families send to Irish soldiers serving abroad with the UN are the latest to come under threat from cutbacks.