*Éire Óg defender Jarlath Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ÉIRE Óg’s senior hurlers are “thrilled” to be back in the quarter-finals in what their manager has coined “the craziest championship that I can ever remember”.
*Paul Frawley keeps the ball from Luke Pyne. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. A PLACE in the quarter-finals of the Clare SFC already await St Joseph’s Miltown but facing off with champions Éire Óg is the “acid test” they have been waiting for.
*Cratloe full-back Kevin Harnett. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CRATLOE are braced for a very tough “winner-takes all” encounter with Doonbeg this Saturday.
*Ennistymon’s Diarmuid Fahy is expected to return to their first fifteen this weekend. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ENNISTYMON are putting all their energy into securing top spot in Group 2 of the Clare SFC.
*Kilmaley’s Tom O’Rourke. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. KILMALEY made it three wins from three to secure successive quarter-final appearances in the TUS Clare SHC.
*Éire Óg’s Marco Cleary. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. A good start was more than half the battle as defending champions Éire Óg extended their exemplary group record to eleven unbeaten matches since 2023 to top Group 2 and power into an eleventh successive knock-out series.
*Clonlara’s Micheál O’Loughlin. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. Injury time kings Clonlara struck once more at the death as two monster Micheál O’Loughlin salvaged a draw with Inagh/Kinamona and also ensured that both are in this year’s Clare SHC quarter-final draw.
*Conor McGrath, Enda Boyce and Cathal Lohan try to block Martin Daly. Photograph: Ruthie Griffin. The determination to win it was matched by an inordinate amount of misses to lose it before Cathal Lohan popped up with an injury-time winner from under the stand to inch Cratloe into the the last eight of the Clare …
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*Sixmilebridge’s David Kennedy. Photograph: Ruthie Griffin. SIXMILEBRIDGE gave their Clare SHC aspirations a major shot in the arm when overturning rivals Newmarket-on-Fergus to leave more than a fighting chance of making the knockout stages.
*Éire Óg’s Shane O’Donnell takes on Scariff’s Shane Kavanagh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ÉIRE Óg’s senior hurlers were challenged more than they had been in the last two years when surviving a second round scare with Scariff, manager Gerry O’Connor has said.