Clare football boss Colm Collins has revealed it was a group of six friends who tested positive for Covid-19 at his club Cratloe.
A number of games in the Clare Senior Hurling Championship have had to be rearranged as a result, but Colllins says the virus wasn't contracted through GAA activity and that there was no transmission during two training sessions and a match.
He told RTE 2fm's Game On: "This has been associated with Cratloe GAA club but it had really nothing to do with it except a group of friends that play with us all contracted it.
"It wasn’t in GAA activity that it was contracted. It wasn’t anything to do with the club.
"The club was valuable in the sense that it’s an organised structure and we could return the names [to the HSE] but this came from a group of friends that socialise together.
"One pleasing thing about it, if there’s any, is that we had a match on the Monday evening and we had two training sessions and there was no transmission from any of those.
"I don’t know can you generalise in that way but I just saw that the team that we played on Monday all came back negative from their tests."
Clare's footballers are due to start their Championship campaign with a Munster quarter-final against Tipperary at the end of October, but Collins believes the inter-county season is in danger of not going ahead.
He added: "I’m not one bit confident.
"Unless we start being so vigilant again and unless people start looking after themselves and the people around them and [see] the big picture, I think inter-county would be in danger.
"Everyone is slow to let the 2020 season go but we may have no choice."
