*Jennifer Daly battles with Orla Hickey. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s senior camogie side produced their best display of the year but it wasn’t enough to overcome Waterford with the Déise advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals with a ten point win.
*Éire Óg captain David Reidy accepts the Division 2 trophy from Clare GAA Planning/Training Officer Paddy Smyth, a proud Éire Óg man. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. THE last real test before the championship commences saw Éire Óg surprisingly ease to the Real Print Division 2 League honours for the second successive season in Ruan.
*Eoin O’Brien with his daughter Elin. Photograph: Joe Buckley NEWMARKET CELTIC’s twentieth Clare Cup title marked Eoin O’Brien’s first success in his debut season as manager of his native club.
PICTURED: Mark Rodgers scored 1-08 for Clare. Photo by Ruth Griffin The curtain finally came down on Clare’s Munster Senior Hurling Championship campaign but not without a final sting in the tail after inflicting a first defeat on neighbours Limerick in the TUS Gaelic Grounds. Munster Senior Hurling Championship Round 5 Clare 3-20 Limerick 0-24 …
*Photograph: Joe Buckley Amidst a showdown of almost four seasons, fittingly it was the man of all seasons Eoin Hayes that popped up for a late winner to cement Newmarket Celtic’s historic 20th Clare Cup crown over newcomers Tulla United in Frank Healy Park in Doora.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill It was an excruciatingly difficult pill to swallow for Clare as their hopes of a first Munster Under 20 Hurling title in eleven years hinged on two contentious decisions entering the final quarter.
*Terence Fahy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CONTESTING a second Munster U20 hurling final in three years is “a very exciting prospect”, Clare manager Terence Fahy has said.
Gareth Murphy holds off Eoghan Joy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. A savouring first half gave way for a sobering second as Clare’s Munster Final hopes were decisively shattered by a rampant Kerry in Páirc Naomh Mhuire in Quilty.
*Ryan Taylor scores a point for Clare. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. FOLLOWING yet another inspirational comeback after once again giving themselves a mountain to climb, Clare’s hurlers search for a first championship win continues, Eoin Brennan rates the performances from Saturday’s three point loss to Tipperary.
*A disappointed Liam Casey in Semple Stadium. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. DEFEAT in the Daryl Darcy Cup final left Clare’s minor footballers and their manager Joe Hayes “gutted”.
