On-song Clontarf looking to end AIB League heartbreak

CLONTARF’S flirtation with AIB League glory has been consigned to failure in recent years; five semi-finals and two final appearances being just the sum total of the club’s success.

The north Dublin side got to the final in 2003 and 2006 only to lose out to two teams that were either packed with provincial representatives (Ballymena) or with so much experience (Shannon) as to be too much to cope with.

Today, at Temple Hill, in a televised encounter (2pm), Clontarf seek to turn the tide of recent events, and manager Pat McHale is optimistic that retribution for defeat at the same stage of the competition, and at the same venue against the same opposition, will be gained.