Colm Collins: We’ve been blessed with really good coaches

Colm Collins is in his fourth year as Clare football manager. He is also on his fourth coach, leading the man himself to quip: “I must be very difficult to get on with”.

Former Cork footballer Paudie Kissane served as coach in 2014, Ephie Fitzgerald took up the mantle a year later, with Dublin’s Mick Bohan coming on board as the county reached a first All-Ireland quarter-final last summer.

Bohan continued the tradition of spending just the one season in the role, cutting ties with the Banner County last October.