Honan hopes to end memorable year on a high

HE’S HARD to miss. Darach Honan folds his 6’6” frame into a chair in a UCC canteen and looks ahead to tomorrow’s Clare county hurling final.

It’s been a long year but there’s plenty of enthusiasm for the clash of his Clonlara side with near neighbours Cratloe.

“Ah, we’re looking forward to it,” says Honan, “It’s a great day for Clonlara, and I’d know all the Cratloe lads as well, we’d be friendly enough. Both teams are very young, so it should be a good final. I suppose we wouldn’t be as well known as a few of the other clubs in Clare who’ve won Munster club championships and so on over the last few years, but we’re on the way. We’ve both been doing well in the last couple of years.”