Christy O'Connor: Brian Lohan has given more players game time than any other manager

Clare have used a staggering 62 players in league and championship across a five year period. 

BLOODING YOUNG PLAYERS: No other manager has given game time to more players in the last five years than Brian Lohan; Clare have used a staggering 62 players in league and championship across that period. Picture: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

Not long after St Joseph’s Tulla won a maiden and historic Harty Cup in 2022, Adam Hogan got a text message from Brian Lohan. Except he wasn’t sure it was Lohan. Hogan thought it was one of his school-mates pranking him. So he texted Paddy Donnellan for clarification.

Donnellan, who was in St Joseph’s a few years earlier, was on the Clare panel by then and he confirmed to Hogan that it was Lohan’s number. St Joseph’s had just lost an All-Ireland colleges semi-final to St Kieran’s. The Clare U20s were out of the championship by mid-April. So the first chance Lohan got, he called Hogan into the squad.