*Clonlara’s Séimí Gully is the Ard Scoil Rís goalkeeper.
REGARDLESS OF THE OUTOME of Saturday’s Harty Cup final, coveted provincial medals will be heading home to Clare.
On the management front, Ard Scoil Rís are led by former Limerick hurler Niall Moran alongside Clare corner back Paul Flanagan and U21 All-Ireland winner Cormac O’Donovan. Standing in the St Joseph’s Tulla corner are current Clare U20 manager and coach, Terence Fahy and Tomás Kelly plus All-Ireland winning Galway defender Aidan Harte.
Ard Scoil Rís has always been a feeder school for hurlers from clubs such as Clonlara, Cratloe, Parteen and Meelick but in recent years with more success recorded, youngsters from Sixmilebridge, Newmarket-on-Fergus, Broadford and Killaloe heading to the secondary school on the North Circular Rd in Limerick.
From their semi-final side which hammered Thurles CBS, Ard Scoil Rís lined out with Sixmilebridge duo Colm Flynn and David Kennedy at corner back and forward respectively. Séimi Gully whose father Jim was manager of the last Clonlara team to win the Clare SHC is the goalkeeper for the side with Broadford’s Niall O’Farrell at centre-forward.
Cratloe duo Sam Sheehy and Riain McNamara were introduced to the full-back line during the 4-18 1-12 win against Thurles CBS while Clonlara’s Diarmuid Stritch is close to a place in their attack. Sixmilebridge’s Dara Casey, Noel Flynn and Morgan O’Connell are listed among the substitutes.
Sean McMahon who captained Ard Scoil’s Dean Ryan side that lost out in the final to St Flannan’s College is part of the panel as is Broadford’s Denis Fahy, Seadhna Liddy who was centre forward for the Newmarket-on-Fergus U21 team that reached the county final and Eoin Deegan of Cratloe, son of All-Ireland winning Clare selector Mike.
With a panel of 31, St Joseph’s Tulla have eight clubs represented in their squad, namely Tulla, Feakle, O’Callaghans Mills, Broadford, Clooney/Quin, Crusheen, St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield and Sixmilebridge.
