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Фото: Instagram ant_anstead | Рене Зеллвегер та Ант Анстед Рене Зеллвегер та Ант Анстед тримають свої стосунки подалі від уваги публіки. Вони живуть у Південній Каліфорнії. 55-річна американська акторка Рене Зеллвегер вийшла у світ зі своїм бойфрендом Антом Анстедом, 45, на вечірці після премʼєри фільму «Бріджит Джонс: Закохана у хлопця». Про це пише Daily […]Conor Cleary commits to Clare for 12th season after 2024 All-Ireland glory with The Banner County
ALTHOUGH it took him over a decade to reach the promised land, the pilgrimage will continue for Conor Cleary.
The veteran full-back had to undergo surgery on the shoulder injury he sustained in last summer’s All-Ireland final victory over Cork.
But Cleary, who turned 31 this week, had no hesitation in signing up for a 12th season of senior inter-county hurling.
On the prospect of retirement, he said: “The break has really refreshed me. Things like that haven’t come into my head at all, to be honest.
“I’m genuinely really enjoying going to training, playing the games and I suppose it’s a great period to be a Clare hurler at the moment with the standard of player we have on the panel and the opportunities we’ve got over the last couple of years.”
Cleary’s twin brother Eoin is back on the beat with the Clare footballers, having opted out last season to address injury issues while also spending some time abroad.
For Conor, whose girlfriend Louise Griffin is also raising the Banner at senior level, the hurlers’ celebratory trip to the US scratched the travel itch.
Asked about the temptation to take time out, he said: “No, not really. I’m lucky too that my girlfriend Louise plays inter-county football for Clare.
“And that does help me in the sense that I’m not being put under huge pressure to travel because she has her own goals and ambitions with the Clare ladies team as well.
“From a personal point of view, I got to see a lot of the world in November time with the team holiday and I was over for a few days before it as well.
“I suppose staying with the hurling has given me experiences like that too to see the world, which I wouldn’t have got if I did take years out and things like that.”
Clare were newly-minted All-Ireland champions when Davy Fitzgerald added Cleary to the senior set-up ahead of the 2014 season.
Notwithstanding the semi-final replay loss to Galway in 2018.
The Kilmaley man admits there were doubts about his chances of landing a Celtic Cross until Brian Lohan finally led them to Liam MacCarthy Cup glory in his fifth season in charge.
Cleary explained: “I came in right after they won the All-Ireland. I suppose you think, maybe naively as a young lad, that this is going to happen every year or every few years.
“There were a lot of tough years. I suppose 2018 was a high for the group, getting so close to an All-Ireland final.
“But in 2019 we were brought back down to earth very quickly and you were kind of thinking, ‘Will it ever happen?’ because you were just at such a low ebb having been well beaten by Tipperary and Limerick in the Munster Championship.
“A lot of the credit has to go to Brian. Not a lot of people would have taken us at that stage in 2019, 2020 and he just brought a huge amount of energy to it and responsibility.
“When he first came in, there was an awful lot of work to do in the fact that we lost to Limerick heavily in the Munster Championship in 2020.
“I suppose it would have been hard to believe. You always try to believe that you’d win an All-Ireland. There were a lot of tough years but it just shows the value of perseverance and keeping going.
“It’s definitely something I’ve learned from the year anyway because at times when you’re playing you think it might never happen. But all you can really do is keep going and keep giving your best..”
After starting their Allianz League title defence with a defeat to Kilkenny, Clare will aim to bounce back when they travel to Galway next weekend.
But with one eye on the Munster SHC opener against Cork on April 6, Cleary is unlikely to feature as he continues his rehab.
He said: “I’m kind of taking it week by week, to be honest.
“With physios and stuff, you have different targets to meet and I’m not quite there yet but they’re happy enough with the progress at the moment.”
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Former Armagh ace Paddy Morrison warns goalkeepers could become ‘extinct’ under new rules
GOALKEEPERS will become an endangered species as they roam in the wilds of enemy territory.
That is according to former Armagh keeper Paddy Morrison, who is now a member of the Leitrim coaching ticket under Steven Poacher.
Last weekend’s opening round of National League games put the Football Review Committee’s raft of rule changes to the test in a competitive environment for the first time.
And having been given a licence to offer their teams a numerical advantage in the opposing half, goalkeepers featured prominently in games across all four divisions.
The views of Morrison are validated by the decision of Westmeath boss Dermot McCabe to select Conor McCormack, a forward, in the No 1 shirt for their Division 2 clash with Louth.
Morrison told SunSport: “My biggest fear would be the loss of the position altogether. The goalkeeper could ultimately become extinct.
“Are we going to see the goalkeeper wearing the full-forward’s jersey and the full-forward wearing the goalkeeper’s?
“The small drawback would be that the full-forward has to come back for kick-outs and stand in the small square.
“But we’re going to see the ingenuity of all the coaches coming up with these different ideas.
“More teams will probably look at putting outfield players into goals so the art of goalkeeping, the bread and butter of the position, is slowly being eradicated and lost.
“The more the goalkeeper can offer you going forward, the less concern there will be about him doing the stuff that he was expected to do, like saving and communicating with the defence.”
The inherent danger of using a goalkeeper to create a 12-v-11 advantage in the opposing half were illustrated in Roscommon’s win over Down in Division 2 last Sunday.
When the Mourne men were turned over, Ciarán Murtagh was able to score into an empty net for the Rossies after John O’Hara had ventured forward.
Morrison explained: “We could end up in a situation where the full-back line are being trained once a week or once a fortnight in some basic goalkeeping, just in case the goalkeeper can’t get back.
“It could slowly snowball into coaches feeling they don’t need a goalkeeper at all and playing without one.
“If a manager decides to put an outfielder into goals, he’s going to have to make sure that the player has the basics.
“It might be great that he can join the attack but the need to be able to make a save might be what wins or loses you a game.
“He also has 30 kick-outs to take in a match so that also has to be worked on religiously.
“A key point is also that most goalkeepers do their most important work with their mouth rather than their hands or feet.
“That’s being able to make sure their defence is in position.
“They don’t get any credit for that but it’s a massive part of the role. Recognising an attack, spotting runners and getting a man into position to plug gaps.”
LAOIS CLASH
Following the postponement of last weekend’s Division 3 game against Laois, Morrison’s first official engagement with Leitrim will be Sunday’s clash with Clare at Cusack Park.
When it comes to the FRC’s attempts to improve Gaelic football, the Armagh Harps man warns that there is a risk of triggering unintended consequences.
He said: “Coaches at the moment are seeing how the rules work before they think about how they can use them to their advantage.
“It won’t be until that happens that we’ll see whether the rules are going to be good for the game or not.
“One thing I would say is that when you’re trying to implement a rule to have a positive impact, you have to be careful that it doesn’t have the opposite effect to what the purpose is.
“Only allowing the goalkeeper to have possession in the opposition’s half was meant to be a deterrent. But coupled with the three-up rule, it has put coaches into hyper mode.
“In the past, there were probably eight teams at most who were using an attacking goalkeeper.
“Every team is looking to do it now. Even the whispers of Donegal using Michael Murphy as a goalkeeper give an indication of the thought processes of coaches.”
Kilkenny legend Jackie Tyrrell questions Declan Hannon’s future as Limerick reshuffle leadership
JACKIE TYRRELL reckons Declan Hannon may be forced to take a back seat as Limerick aim to get back on the road for the first time since their Drive for Five crashed.
Veteran centre-back Hannon, 32, was an inspirational skipper during a seven-year spell that yielded five All-Irelands and six Munster SHC titles for the Treaty.
But Cian Lynch has assumed the captaincy for 2025, prompting speculation that Hannon’s place in the team is in jeopardy.
William O’Donoghue and Cathal O’Neill have previously deputised for the Adare man at the heart of Limerick’s defence, while boss John Kiely selected Kyle Hayes as his starting centre-back in a challenge match against Waterford last weekend.
Speaking on the RTÉ GAA podcast, Kilkenny legend Tyrrell said: “The fact that he has moved the captaincy on suggests to me that it’s one area of concern that Limerick have and are going to address it.
“Will it mean Declan Hannon being in that six position? We’ll have to wait and see.
“Will they try to protect him a bit better or will they just go: the time has come for a new direction, a new captain, a new six. And they have options in there. I would suggest he will go with the latter.”
Limerick’s bid for an unprecedented fifth straight Liam MacCarthy Cup was thwarted by a semi-final loss to Cork last July.
Tyrrell recalls that Hannon ‘struggled’ on a day when rapid Rebels attacker Shane Barrett bagged 0-3.
The former Cats defender added: “Six is a pivotal role. You command the position from there. Like goalkeeping, you’re almost like a quarter-back where you can drop, you can step up.
“It’s a hugely influential position and one that Limerick have gotten right for the best part of seven, eight, nine years.
“Declan Hannon has been unbelievable but the question is, has the time come and passed now?”
Limerick will have their first competitive outing of the year when they take on Cork in the National League tomorrow night at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
As he embarks on his ninth season in charge, Kiely will be forced into at least one major change as goalkeeper Nickie Quad is sidelined with an ACL knee injury.
But Tyrrell insisted: “It’s probably the first time that John Kiely has really been challenged in terms of the year that’s just gone by, it wasn’t good enough.
“So he can’t go back with the same 15, he can’t go back with the same ideas.
“He needs to come with something different so that poses a question on how ruthless he is.
“He has been very loyal to a lot of his lieutenants that have served him really well.”
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