Ikem Ugwueru thriving after finally accepting Clare call

"They were like, ‘If you give this a full crack, you never know where this might go with it. Then I decided to give it a full shot and here we are now.”

CLARE CALL: Clare footballer Ikem Ugwueru at SuperValu’s launch of the GAA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and its #CommunityIncludesEveryone campaign. Pic Credit: Dan Sheridan, Inpho.

Blessed with wicked pace, it was probably no surprise that Ikem Ugwueru played hard to get.

The Dublin-born 24-year-old had been screening Colm Collins’ calls before he eventually joined the Clare set-up in 2021.