*Peter Power battles with the Fitzpatricks, Páidí and Barry. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS’ exit from the Clare senior hurling championship is “hugely deflating,” manager James Carrig has said.
*Sean Kennedy clashes with Kevin Danaher. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill EXITING the Clare SHC courtesy of Conor McGrath’s last-gasp strike was “devastating” for Kilmaley.
*Conor McGrath was the hero for Cratloe. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill The final weekend of group action finished in memorable fashion when Conor McGrath’s last gasp point from the left touchline inch Cratloe into the last Senior Hurling Championship quarter-final berth.
*Aidan McCarthy gets a shot away with Paurig Taylor trying to block. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A four goal second half blitz sealed Inagh/Kilnamona’s passage to the last eight on the Clare Senior Hurling Championship at the expense of a previously unbeaten Broadford in Cusack Park.
*David McNamara picks out a pass as Mossy Gavin tries to get a block in. Photograph: Ruth Griffin TO EMERGE from the ‘Group of Death’ unscathed was no mean achievement as Éire Óg completed a flawless group campaign in a far from flawless war of attrition with Ballyea in Cusack Park.
*Ballyea’s Niall Deasy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill BALLYEA ‘always knew it was going to go down to the wire’ in the Group of Death.
CONOR DEASY’s late equaliser secured Sixmilebridge’s place in the Clare SHC quarter-finals and dumped rivals Newmarket-on-Fergus out of the championship.
*Scariff captain Mark Rodgers tries to shake off the challenge of Eoin Donnellan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DRAWING with Broadford in an East Clare derby saw Scariff go “through every single emotion”.
*Sean O’Connor clears his lines. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS are treating their final group game in the TUS Clare SHC as “a knockout game”.
*Eoghan Gunning clears his lines for Broadford. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill BROADFORD’s “curve is on the way up” according to their coach as they currently remain unbeaten in the Clare SHC.