National Football League Division 3 Round 2 Westmeath 2-19 Clare 1-17 Clare’s promotion hopes are now hanging by a mere thread after a seesaw performance allowed a far more consistent Westmeath to snatch victory in Zimmer Biomet Páirc Chiosóg, writes Eoin Brennan. Having taken great encouragement from their performance in Newry eight days earlier, Paul Madden’s side would have expected to snatch the whip hand against a Westmeath side that struggled to finally fend off Sligo on home soil.