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AS IT HAPPENED

As It Happened: Galway v Clare, All-Ireland SHC semi-final replay

Follow our live coverage of this afternoon’s replay to see who will face Limerick in the All-Ireland final.

Good afternoon and welcome to our live coverage of today’s All-Ireland semi-final replay between Galway and Clare at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

Here are your teams per the match programme:

Galway

1. James Skehill (Cappataggle)

2. Adrian Tuohy (Beagh)
3. Daithi Burke (Turloughmore)
4. John Hanbury (Rahoon-Newcastle)

5. Padraig Mannion (Ahascragh/Fohenagh)
6. Gearoid McInerney (Oranmore-Maree) *
7. Aidan Harte (Gort)

8. Johnny Coen (Loughrea)
9. David Burke (St Thomas’)

10. Joseph Cooney (Sarsfields)
11. Joe Canning (Portumna)
12. Jonathan Glynn (Ardrahan)

13. Conor Whelan (Kinvara)
14. Conor Cooney (St Thomas)
15. Cathal Mannion (Ahascragh-Fohenagh)

* There is, however, a late change for Galway: Gearóid McInerney is replaced by Niall Burke

Clare

1. Donal Tuohy (Crusheen)

2. Patrick O’Connor (Tubber)
3. David McInerney (Tulla)
4. Jack Browne (Ballyea)

5. Seadna Morey (Sixmilebridge)
6. Conor Cleary (St Joseph’s Miltown)
7. Jamie Shanahan (Sixmilebridge)

8. Colm Galvin (Clonlara)
9. Cathal Malone (Sixmilebridge)

10. Peter Duggan (Clooney-Quin)
11. Tony Kelly (Ballyea)
12. David Reidy (Éire Óg Inis)

13. Podge Collins (Cratloe)
14. John Conlon (Clonlara)
15. Shane O’Donnell (Éire Óg Inis)

A view of Semple Stadium ahead of the game Oisin Keniry / INPHO Oisin Keniry / INPHO / INPHO

Nearly ready.

Clare warm up before the game Tommy Dickson / INPHO Tommy Dickson / INPHO / INPHO

Who have you got?

Galway 0-1 Clare 0-0 - We’re underway in Thurles, and approaching the one-minute mark Joseph Cooney has an effort blocked over the sideline on the left-hand side. Joe Canning goes short and gets the return to fire Galway into the lead. Nice score.

Galway 0-2 Clare 0-0 - Canning doubles his and Galway’s tally with a free from the right.

Galway 0-3 Clare 0-0 - David Burke with a fine score from halfway after a brilliant block in midfield.

Galway 0-4 Clare 0-0 - Amazing score by Joe. Galway on fire early again.

Galway 0-5 Clare 0-1 – Moments after Clare get off the mark, Conor Whelan bursts into Banner territory and fires over.

Galway 0-6 Clare 0-2 - A Peter Duggan free gets Clare back to within three, but Whelan stretches the Tribesmen’s lead back to four with a tidy score from the right flank.

Galway 0-8 Clare 0-2 - Just over quarter of an hour gone. The All-Ireland champions are well on top. Conor Cooney slips but recovers and fires over from close range.

Not 20 seconds later, David Burke gets his second.

Seadna Morey and Cathal Mannion James Crombie / INPHO James Crombie / INPHO / INPHO

Galway 0-9 Clare 0-3 - Great work by Niall Burke – a late change for Gearoid McInerney – who drives at Clare and lays it back to Cathal Mannion for an easy score.

Tony Kelly grabs Clare’s first score from play.

GOAL GALWAY!

GOOOOOAAAAALLLL! Galway 1-9 Clare 0-3 - Johnny Glynn with a rasper for the champions! His eighth ever championship goal, and Galway are cruising!

Galway 1-9 Clare 0-4 - Shane O’Donnell replies for Clare, but they need to get motoring here.

Galway 1-9 Clare 0-5 - Duggan lands his third free. Clare, in fairness, seem to have curtailed the Galway onslaught somewhat.

SAVE! – Just as I say that, Conor Cooney fashions a goal chance but has his effort smothered by Donal Tuohy! That’s a really good stop by the Banner ‘keeper, who rushes out and stops a potentially fatal score.

Galway 1-9 Clare 0-5 - A couple of times, now, Clare have battled hard to create the opportunity for a kind of rousing, psychologically-boosting score, but have been off the mark with the final effort.

David McInerney, there, emerged from a midfield slugfest and made a great run, but his effort was wayward.

Three minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half.

John Conlon and Daithi Burke A bit of 'how're we getting on' from John Conlon and Daithi Burke James Crombie / INPHO James Crombie / INPHO / INPHO

Galway 1-9 Clare 0-6 - Peter Duggan makes a balls of a sideline cut and it dribbles wide. A fair representation of Clare’s first half, and to be fair to Duggan there was absolutely nobody moving for him.

Podge Collins gets Clare to within six at the break with his side’s third score from play.

Half-time: Galway 1-9 Clare 0-6

You’d imagine Clare will tear into this now with a kind of abandon. Three points from play is a woeful return and Pádraic Mannion is hoovering up in his role as sweeper for the champions, but in the last 10 minutes of the first half Clare at least turned it into a phonebooth brawl and slowed the scoring across the board.

The Banner aren’t out of it, but they need to improve their shooting and eradicate the shoddy errors; they’ve had 19 scoring attempts – including those which have dropped short or remained in play – and converted only six. 11 of those misses were wides.

They’ve also already swapped Peter Duggan and John Conlon to try and get things moving up top, but it seems pointless if they keep launching Hail Marys in on top of Mannion.

Galway will be the happier and have physically dominated proceedings, but one suspects they’ll need to push on themselves if they’re to kill this off.

How important could this man’s goal be?

Jonathan Glynn celebrates scoring a goal Oisin Keniry / INPHO Oisin Keniry / INPHO / INPHO

We’re nearly ready for the second half!

Second half

The second half is underway in Thurles. Can Galway see this one out, or is there a sting in the Clare tail? We’re about to find out.

David McInerney clips Johnny Glynn across the shins with his hurley and concedes a soft free-in. We have something that would barely qualify as a shemozzle in front of the Clare goal – Canning is involved and his helmet is off.

McInerney and Canning are booked, the free is overturned, and Clare emerge with the ball from the resulting throw-in.

Galway 1-10 Clare 0-7 - Ian Galvin gets the type of fist pump-inducing score that Clare needed after winning that battle in front of their own goal.

Conor Whelan puts Galway back out to six in front.

Galway 1-11 Clare 0-7 - Joe Canning leading the way for his side.

GOAL CLARE!

GOOOOOAAALLLLLL!!! Galway 1-11 Clare 1-7 - OHHH, WHAT A GOAL BY SHANE O’DONNELL!!! The 24-year-old goes on a mazing run and shows unbelievable composure to dummy a shot and touch the ball beyond the last defender before firing home on the hop. Stunning finish!

Galway 1-11 Clare 1-9 - Duggan with his fourth and fifth frees in quick succession. Great work by O’Donnell again to earn the second. Clare are buzzing now.

Galway 1-12 Clare 1-9 - The champions produce one of the team scores of the year and it’s expertly finished by Niall Burke.

Galway 1-13 Clare 1-9 - Conor Whelan audaciously attempts to lob the ball over a Clare defender but gets caught on his way to collect it. Canning converts the resulting free. Really good response to that Clare purple patch by Galway.

GOAL CLARE!

GOOOOOOAAALLLLLLL!!!! Galway 1-14 Clare 2-9 - PETER DUGGAN WITH AN ABSOLUTE SCREAMER! OH, WHAT A GOAL AGAIN FOR CLARE! HE THUNDERS IT PAST JAMES SKEHILL FROM LONG RANGE!

Up the other end, Canning responds with a free.

Galway 1-14 Clare 2-10 - Ian Galvin brings Clare back to within a point.

Galway 1-15 Clare 2-10 – Canning with the free – his seventh score – and Galway lead by two.

Galway 1-15 Clare 2-11 - Aron Shanagher makes an immediate impact upon his introduction, and there’s only a point between them!

OFF THE POST! – Shane O’Donnell bursts through and puts Shanagher in on goal. Skehill makes a great save but the sliotar rebounds to Shanagher – he hits it first-time from point-blank range but it comes off the post! The stuff of nightmares!!!

Galway 1-16 Clare 2-12 - Two unreal scores from either side: a Canning sideline cut and a Conlon effort up the other end.

Five minutes of stoppage time!

Galway 1-17 Clare 2-12 - Peter Duggan has an effort drop short and Skehill does well to take it in traffic. He sets Galway down the other end and Niall Burke fires one over his shoulder to stretch Galway’s lead to two!

What a finish we’re in for here!

Joe Canning and Conor Cleary Bryan Keane / INPHO Bryan Keane / INPHO / INPHO

Galway 1-17 Clare 2-13 -Duggan free. One minute. One point.

HERE WE GO!

Galway sub Davey Glennon fires wide left from a tight, tight angle on the right wing! Why did he put the ball dead!?! Clare will have one last chance!

Tuohy goes short and they work the ball out to Tony Kelly… OH NO, TONY! His attempted pass creeps over the sideline! Just pure fatigue. That could be that!

Full-time: Galway 1-17 Clare 2-13

GALWAY ARE BACK IN THE ALL-IRELAND FINAL!

So there you have it: Limerick will face All-Ireland champions Galway in the decider at HQ on 19 August.

Thanks for joining us today. Enjoy the rest of your bank holiday weekend!

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