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Clare hurler McGrath wins suspension appeal to play in Munster club football final

Cratloe have been handed a boost before next Sunday’s tie against Dr Crokes.

CLARE HURLER CONOR McGrath was last night cleared to play in next Sunday’s AIB Munster SFC club final after successfully appealing his sending-off in the semi-final.

McGrath was shown a red card in the dying moments of Cratloe’s win last Sunday week against Waterford’s Ballinacourty in Cusack Park.

But at a disciplinary hearing last night at the Munster Council’s headquarters in Limerick, McGrath was successful in overturning the ban and will now be able to line out against Dr Crokes.

McGrath was accompanied by club boss, and new Clare manager Colm Collins, to the hearing.

“We’re delighted for Conor that he’s going to be available for us”, said Collins. “It’s great that we’ll have everyone for such a big game.”

The Kerry champions are chasing a third successive Munster title against a Cratloe team who will be appearing in their first provincial senior football final after only winning their first Clare title recently against Doonbeg.

McGrath will join seven other members of Davy Fitzgerald’s Clare All-Ireland winning squad in the Cratloe setup. Padraic and Sean Collins, Conor Ryan, Liam Markham and Cathal McInerney are all Cratloe teammates.

While Brendan Bugler and Fergal Lynch both play football with Cratloe due to the fact that their home clubs only play hurling.

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    Mar 27th 2018, 11:36 PM

    Argentina fell apart in the second half .. 10000 of their supporters in the stadium , tough to swallow . But in the end it’ll have no bearing World Cup wise .

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    Mar 27th 2018, 11:41 PM

    @Limón Madrugada: going on the last 20 years of Argentina massively underachieving, i think you are right.

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    Mar 27th 2018, 11:53 PM

    @Limón Madrugada: They’ll do nothing in the world cup. They’re the south American English

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    Mar 28th 2018, 12:01 AM

    @Carl Johnson: yeah you’re probably right but my comment was more directed at the Spanish team . Beating Argentina in a friendly at home doesn’t mean anything for Spain’s WC possibilities …

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    Mar 28th 2018, 12:55 AM

    @Limón Madrugada: I’d disagree tbh. They’ll go in with confidence

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    Mar 28th 2018, 9:43 AM

    @Limón Madrugada: some of their football was fantastic last night

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    Mar 28th 2018, 3:35 PM

    @Carl Johnson: They made it to the final last time out. Calling them England is a bit harsh.

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    Mar 28th 2018, 9:35 AM

    If messi somehow drags this team to lift the world cup he will be the greatest of all time by a country mile. I’d love to see him do it.

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    Mar 28th 2018, 8:03 AM

    Argentina squad is so unbalanced. Probably best forward options of any team in world football but defensively they are a mess.

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    Mar 28th 2018, 8:36 AM

    @Gareth Kennan: the more I see of Argentina the more I’m impressed by messi dragging these bums to the World Cup, some great attacking talent but a mess in midfield and defense, even in attacking they have maybe too similarly minded players. Aguero in particular has never showed up for Argentina and never gets criticized for it as its all directed at messi, the less said about higuain the better

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    Mar 28th 2018, 10:50 AM

    I couldn’t believe in the commentary on TV and again in this article how nobody has mentioned how badly at fault De Gea was for the Argentina goal. If it was one of the English keepers, they’d be slaughtered forevermore for it.

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    Mar 28th 2018, 10:54 AM

    @Adrian O’Farrell: quite simply it’s a regular thing for English keeps and not for De Gea

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    Mar 28th 2018, 11:21 AM

    @Johnny Bravo: True. Not saying he’s a bad keeper, far from it. But it’s like when you get to his level, your errors just get ignored. Which is wrong.

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