A seven man Committee which will include former county manger Tommy Curtin as well as players representative’s will decide the next Clare senior football manager following last night’s county board meeting in Ennis.
A proposal by Miltown Malbay that a 5 man committee which will be supplemented by players representatives and chaired by Michael O’Neill was accepted by the meeting
It was also decided that no matches which interfere with the preparation of the county u21’s ahead of the All Ireland will take place.
Doonbeg’s Pat Hanrahan, John Reidy of Miltown, John Mc Carthy of Clooney Quin, Tommy Curtin and Naomh Eoin’s Gabriel Keating will all form part of a new committee that will seek a successor to Micheál McDermott as Clare football manager.
The group will be joined by a players representative and an ex player as well as being led by County chairman Michael O Neill.
The proposal from Miltown was accepted by the board meeting-despite a proposal from James Murrihy that the vacant job be advertised in the media and let interested candidates interview for the job.
Earlier in the meeting Joint u21 hurling mangers Donal Maloney and Gerry O’Connor appealed to the meeting for a 2 week period free of club action involving their core group of players ahead of the All Ireland final.
The decision means that the Liscannor/Cratloe round three game will not be played until after the U21 All Ireland final with q-finals likely to be played on the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd of September.
The meeting agreed to a proposal from PJ McGuane of Cooraclare that all the q-finals be played on the same weekend-despite some reservations from the floor
