Davy to call big guns for Galway challenge

Clare manager Davy Fitzgerald has lined up a glamour senior hurling challenge for the All-Ireland champions against Galway next Sunday.

The beaten Allianz League semi-finalists will lock horns in Quilty as part of Kilmurry-Ibrickane’s centenary celebrations. The fixture, which has a 6.45pm throw-in, will mark the first time Clare have played a game in the west of the county while the Liam MacCarthy Cup will also be on display.

Fitzgerald has reportedly promised local club officials that he will use his entire All-Ireland winning team throughout the course of the game but Shane O’Donnell, hat-trick hero in the memorable final replay victory over Cork, is ruled out with a hamstring injury.