Gaelic Football
Clare won their first Munster Senior Football Championship in 1917. Clare football's greatest day since then came in 1992 when they won the Munster Senior Football Championship by beating Kerry in the final before going down to Dublin in the All-Ireland semi-final. The county's Vocational Schools team have made it to 2 All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship Finals, losing to Tyrone in 1970 and to Wicklow in 1983. Clare were the first All-Ireland Minor Football Championship winners in 1929.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)