 In the 1950s Clonad won the Laois Junior Football Championship and Laois Intermediate Football Championship.Despite this success the emphasis was always on hurling and football has only featured infrequently since then.Recent developments at the club include the construction of a ball wall designed and used for hurling skills which is used by the Laois Senior hurling team and other teams in training drills and was the first of its kind in Laois.