In the wake of Clare’s exit from the All-Ireland SFC, manager Colm Collins wasn’t licking his wounds and instead encouraged the Gaelic Athletic Association to change the structure of the championship.
Just eight teams remain in the hunt for Sam Maguire, for the first time in twenty four years Clare’s footballers will play a championship game in Croke Park and it’s a day to be savoured.
In his four years as manager of the Kerry Senior Footballers, Éamonn Fitzmaurice has yet to taste defeat at the All-Ireland quarter-final stage, this Sunday they take on the challenge of Clare.
Qualifying for the last eight of the All-Ireland SFC has been huge for Clare football, one of the main men in getting them to that stage is captain Gary Brennan.