Clare doze in first-half and Offaly take full advantage

IT'S a long way from Clare to Tullamore, and an even longer road home yesterday for senior football manager John Kennedy and his charges following another inconsistent National Football League display.

Offaly 1-11 Clare 0-10

In what was, overall, a poor display of football by both sides, the visitors dozed through the last 20 minutes of the first-half at the end of which they trailed 1-6 to 0-3. And ultimately that period of slumber cost them a game they could well have won.