At the Munster handball doubles finals last week, Clare captured two titles with victory in the minor boys and girls deciders.

There was disappointment form Conor Cooney and Niall Bolton in he intermediate doubles final as they went down to the Cork pairing of Shane Hedigan and Gearoid Healy).

The boys minor doubles final was an all Clare affair and here Matthew Coughlan and Donnacha Crotty defeated Donnacha Cantwell and James Brooks.

In the girls minor doubles final Clare’s Claire Minogue and Isabelle McInerney beat the Tipperary pairing of Clodagh Shinners and Sophie O’Meara.

Meanwhile in the masters doubles semi-final he Clare pairing of Ray Stewart and Donal Madden) overcame Cork’s Andy Murphy and Michael Buckley. In the final they will take on the Waterford pairing of Philip Butler and Gary McCarthy.

Clare winners:

In the Clare singles masters final Mike Baker (Kilkishen) accounted for Shane Walsh (Tuamgraney) while in an all Clarecatle masters plate final, Stephen Malone defeated Mike Kennelly.

Meanwhile dates and venues have to be confirmed for the following finals:
Junior A Cup; Sean Coughlan (Clooney/Quin) v Ciaran Malone (Tuamgraney)
U21; David Considine (Clooney/Quin) v Mici Sheedy (Tuamgraney)
Ladies Minor; Claire Minogue (Tuamgraney) v Isabelle McInerney (Toonagh).

Quarter finals in the juvenile B championships will take place this weekend.

Munster Juvenile A Championships:

Clare contested 20 juvenile A Munster finals from 12-17 years over the weekend and won 11 gold medals maintaining their place at the top of the eaderboard over the past three years.

Winners in the 14-17 ages will now go forward to All-Ireland semi- finals in Croke Park on March 8 with the finals scheduled for the following day, Marh 9, at the same venue.

The Munster results are:
Girls U12 Doubles: Saoirse Frost (Kilkishen)/Annalise Hogan(Kilkishen) dft Cork, Mia Buckley/Keley White
Girls U13 Singles: Anna Madden (Tuamgraney) dft Róisín O’Riordan, Cork
Girls U13 Doubles: Samantha Vaughan (Toonagh)/Anna Brooks (Clooney-Quin) dft Shauna Dennehy/Lucy O’Connor, Cork
Girls U14 Doubles: Tracy Tuohy (Kilkishen)/Ali Donnelly(Clarecastle) dft Aisling Ryan/Jenny Talbot (Tipperary)
Girls U16 Singles: Tara Lucas (Toonagh) dft Lily Parks(Tipperary)
Girls U16 Doubles: Ellie Frost (Kilkishen)/Chloe Hannon(Kilkishen) dft Grace Murphy/Freya Mortell(Cork)
Boys U12 Doubles: Jack McMahon (Clooney-Quin)/Gearoid MacDonnacha(Kilkishen) defeated Cork, (Daragh Curtin/Tadhg Mulcahy
Boys U14 Doubles: Daniel Madden (Tuamgraney)/Cillian Howard(Tuamgraney) dft Sean Tierney/Tiernan Dillon, Tipperary
Boys U15 Doubles: Charlie Collins (Tuamgraney)/Sean McGee(Clooney-Quin) dft Alex O’Dwyer/Billy Murphy, Tipperary
Boys U16 Singles: Sean Considine (Clooney/Quin) dft Josh Moroney (Tipperary
Boys U17 Singles: Paddy Sweeney (Clarecastle) dft Cork, Will McElliott Egan
Girls U12 Singles: Emily Monaghan, Tipperary dft Ella Kirby (Newmarket)
Girls U14 Singles: Molly Joyce (Tipperary), dft Sinead Doyle(Tuamgraney)

Girls U15 Singles: Lucy Anne Cleary (Tipperary) dft Jane Hogan(Kilkishen)
Girls U17 Singles: Sarah Williams (Tipperary) dft Ella Crotty(Tuamgraney)
Boys U12 Singles: Cillian Healy, Cork dft Cian Donovan (Kilkishen)
Boys U13 Singles: Conal O’Connor, Cork dft Eliah Kenny (Newmarket-on-Fergus)
Boys U13 Doubles: Jim O’Mahony/Tadgh Malone, Tipperary dft Iarla
Kelleher (Tuamgraney)/Darragh Donovan (Kilkishen
Boys U16 Doubles: Cork, Jack Hennessy/Sean Dee dft Eoin Shanahan (Kilkishen)/Jack Cahill (Clooney-Quin)
Boys U17 Doubles: Cork, Micheál Enright, Zach Daly dft Cathal Noonan (Toonagh)/Liam Óg O’Meara (Tulla)

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