{"id":529738,"date":"2026-07-02T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529738\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:25:08","slug":"shane-odonnell-confirms-end-of-clare-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529738\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane O&#8217;Donnell confirms end of Clare career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane O&#8217;Donnell has confirmed he will retire from inter-county hurling at the end of Clare&#8217;s involvement in this year&#8217;s championship.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Donnell had previously hinted he would finish up last season, but after an injury-hit campaign in 2025, he indicated his intention to go for another season last autumn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now O&#8217;Donnell has confirmed this truly was the last dance. Speaking at a GAA\/GPA event to promote new nutrition partner Cr\u00f3ga Nutrition, O&#8217;Donnell told the Clare Champion that he has maximum two games left with the Banner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;It&#8217;s my last two games for Clare and I just want to finish on a high. Limerick in an All-Ireland semi-final with a chance to then play for the Liam MacCarthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;This is what it&#8217;s about, this is what it&#8217;s always been about. Croke Park on the big day and I honestly can&#8217;t wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane O&#8217;Donnell has confirmed he will retire from inter-county hurling at the end of Clare&#8217;s involvement in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5658,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-529738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}