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Kieran Shannon: What made stingy defender Lohan build a Clare team geared for shootouts?

In Brian Lohan's playing days, Clare played a very different game.
Kieran Shannon: What made stingy defender Lohan build a Clare team geared for shootouts?

LET IT IN: Peter Duggan of Clare in action against Aaron O'Neill of Waterford Pic: ©INPHO/Natasha Barton

It’s a different game now.

In Brian Lohan’s last season as a player, Clare’s first day out in the championship was against a Cork team that, like the 2026 version, was on a mission, albeit of a different kind: to become the first three-in-a-row All-Ireland hurling champions since the county’s own team of the late ’70s.

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