*Joe Dowling kicked a vital score on his introduction for Ennistymon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill
SECOND ROUND ties in the Cusack Cup and Garry Cup took place in the weekend.
Ennistymon, Doonbeg and Clondegad picked up wins while it finished all square between Kilmurry Ibrickane and Corofin.
Clondegad now sit top of the Cusack Cup with wins in both outings while Doonbeg and Ennistymon got off the mark with their first victories of the campaign.
Ennistymon collect first points after withstanding Lissycasey rally
Ennistymon 0-12
Lissycasey 0-11
Venue: Lissycasey GAA Pitch
By Páraic McMahon
After both clubs fell to opening round defeats, the appetite to put points on the board was abundantly clear in the closing moments of the contest though not so evident prior to this.
Had they left Lissycasey without a win, Ennistymon would have been forced to indulge in an exercise of soul-searching having nearly thrown away a seven point advantage. Crucially, their first half foundations paid dividends while their established and experienced led the way at their smooth and rocky patches to see them prevail, the manner of which they steered home will certainly build character.
With the assistance of the gale, Ennistymon built up a 0-05 0-00 advantage by the sounding of the half-time whistle. Niall Canavan converted a mark with just under five minutes played, Keelan Guyler chipped over a free before a Ryan Barry double off his left boot was followed by Sean Rouine raising a white flag on fifteen minutes.
Guyler kicked the first two scores on the restart to bring Ennistymon’s lead to seven but at this juncture newly appointed Lissycasey boss Aiden ‘Horse’ Moloney introduced Seamus Collins to the centre of the field, he gave an immediate lift and greatly influenced the comeback.
They had their first shot when the game was a mere thirty six minutes old. Within a twenty five second period, they put together two points with Conor Finucane opening the account and then centre back Niall McCarthy cut through the middle at ease before splitting the posts.
Éanna Rouine responded for the visitors before Collins left his mark on the scoreboard. A glorious opportunity went abegging when Ennistymon gifted their opponents a goal chance. After doing the hard bit of winning a free in defence, the North Clare side threw away possession as a Joey Rouine cross-field clearance went awry and straight to Enda Finucane who rounded goalkeeper Noel Sexton but fluffed the opportunity and instead of a goal had to settle for a point.
When Daire Hill, McCarthy and Fionn Cotter all added scores it meant Lissycasey had kicked 0-05 without reply and were now the closest they had been to their counterparts.
Experienced needed to come to the surface and it did with substitute Joe Dowling pointing, moments after his introduction to settle Mark Shanahan’s side. Lissycasey bit back and kicked three points in a row via the Finucane brothers to take the lead for the very first time.
Guyler levelled matters on fifty seven minutes and the evergreen Lawrence Healy ventured forward from defence to put Ennistymon back leading by the minimum before referee Fergal O’Brien signalled for four minutes of injury time. They extended their advantage to two points when substitute Paudie Considine added to their tally.
Time was afforded to the hosts to try salvage something for the game, they got a point through Conor Finucance but the equaliser never materialised.
As is the case during the Cusack Cup, few times will be at full strength and of these two sides Ennistymon had a stronger hand to pick from and it was telling as they settled into the groove, far quicker than their opponents, aided of course by the wind at their backs. The established heads proved to be the difference with Lawrence Healy solid throughout while Joe Dowling added a calming presence when needed, Sean Rouine chipped in with three assists over the hour providing impressively accurate cross-field deliveries while Eoin Rouine and Ciaran McMahon also got through some good work.
There will definitely be a level of comfort taken by the manner in which Lissycasey came back into proceedings, they left themselves with a steep hill to climb given their static opening half showing. The impact of Seamus Collins was telling but his expected move overseas will greatly weaken their hand for bigger days later this year even though they have an abundance of players to come back into the fold. As ever, Conor Finucane kicked some fine scores with Fionn Cotter and Daire Hill showing well.
Scorers Ennistymon: K Guyler (0-04 3f), R Barry (0-02), N Canavan (0-01 1M), S Rouine (0-01), Éanna Rouine (0-01), J Dowling (0-01), L Healy (0-01), P Considine (0-01).
Scorers Lissycasey: C Finucane (0-04 2f), N McCarthy (0-02), E Finucane (0-02), S Collins (0-01), D Hill (0-01), F Cotter (0-01).
Ennistymon: Noel Sexton; Joey Rouine, Lawrence Healy, Ciaran McMahon; Michael Vaughan, Oisin Vaughan, John Murphy; Eoin Rouine, Ciaran Devitt; Darragh Conneally, Sean Rouine, Éanna Rouine; Ryan Barry, Niall Canavan, Keelan Guyler.
Subs: Darren McNamara for Conneally (21), Cathal Frawley for O Vaughan (25), Liam Devitt for C Devitt (43), Joe Dowling for Éanna Rouine (52), Paudie Considine for Canvan (58).
Lissycasey: Killian Normoyle; Tom Collins, Matt O’Shea, Michael Meaney; Niall Kelly, Colin O’Shea, Niall McCarthy, Ian Griffin; Enda Finucane, Cian Meaney; Fionn Cotter, Daire Hill, Michael Madigan; Shane Culligan, Conor Finucane.
Subs: Jack Cahill for C O’Shea (21), Seamus Collins for Madigan (33).
Referee: Fergal O’Brien (Broadford)
Tubridy points the way for Doonbeg
Doonbeg 1-12
St. Breckans 1-9
Venue: Tubber
That David Tubridy is a key player for Doonbeg was highlighted again at the weekend as he kicked 0-9 in his side’s win over St. Breckans, a game played at Tubber as both the pitches in Lisdoonvarna and Doonbeg weren’t playable
Substitute Rory Walsh was the team’s goalscorer while St. Breckans goal came from Cathal Guerin
Doonbeg: Eamonn Tubridy; Cillian Blake, Joe Blake, Jason Linnane; Conor O’Mahoney,Cian O’Mahoney, Cian Clancy; Kevin McInerney, Kevin Pender; Mikie Tubridy, Eoin Killeen, Sean Conway; Eoin Conway, David Tubridy. Cathal Killeen
Subs: Rory Walsh for C. O’Mahoney; Eamonn O’Dea for M. Tubridy
St. Breckan’s: Oisin O’Loughlin; Conor Burke,, Paddy Doherty, Diorang McNamara; Eoin Guerin, Maccon Byrne, Jack Sheedy; Padraig Kelly, Denis O’Callaghan; Rowan Danaher, Colm O’Brien, Shane Fitzpatrick; Cian #burke, Marc O’Donnell, Joe McGann;
Subs: Cathal Guerin for C.Burke; Conor Shannon for D. McNamara; Eoin Fitzpatrick for S. Fitzpatrick;
Referee: Joe Kelly (Cooraclare)
Youthful Kilmurry Ibrickane earn draw with Corofin
Corofin 0-11
KilmuryIbrickane 1-8
Venue: Pairc Finne, Corofin
A youthful Kilmurry-Ibrickane staged a srong second half display to earn a share of the spoils with Corofin who had held a five point advantage at the break.
Teenaager Cathal Talty, one of nine under 19’s in the West Clare side’s line up struck for their goal in the second half and they finished strongly to deservingly claim a point from the tie.
Corofin: Luke Neylon; Adrian Shannon, Ross Hayes, Michael Cahill;Shy Malone, Damian O’Loughlin, Colm Rice; Sean O’Brirm. Shane Punch; Gearoid Kelly, Cian Doolin, Damian Ryan; Eoin Davoran, Gearoid Cahill Diarmuid Cahill
Subs: Gearoid Hanrahan for Shannon; Ian Reidy for Punch (inj);
Kilmurry Ibrickane: Thomas Sexton; Patrick Comber.Michael Comber, Andrew Shannon; Conor Kearney, Martin McMahon, Ciaran Morrissey; Mark Killeen, Diarmuid King; Colin Considine, Shane Hickey, Oisin Secton; Niall HIckey, Jason Cussen, Cathal Talty;
Subs: Thomas Lernihan for Considine; S. Gleeson for O. Sexton
Referee: Jim Hickey (Cratloe)
Goals the key for Clondegad
Clondegad 3-10
Kildysart 0-13
Venue: Ryan’s Field, Clarecastle
Morgan Garry, Ryan Jennings and Paudge McMahon were the goal scorers as Clondegad defeated their neighbours Kildysart in this round 2 Cusack cup game played at Ryan’s field Clarecastle.
Despite the somewhat difficult playing conditions, the game rduced some lively exchanges and some very good scores.
Clondegad: Darren Cleary; Conor Gavin, Brian Murphy.Niall Lynch; Cormac Reidy, Peter Casey, Ryan Jennings; Morgan Garry, Tadhg Ó hUallachain; Shane Brennan, Barry Toner, Sean O’Leary; Thomas Gavin, Garry Brennan, Paudge McMahon
Subs: Brian Casey for N. Lynch; Daniel Kelly for P McMahon; Cillian Gavin for Toner; Eoghan Gavin for O’Leary; Patrick Sweeney for Jennings
Kildysart: Conor Cusack; Oisin Coyle, Brian Eyers, Stevie Sheehan; Rory McMahon, Kieran Leahy, Michael Eustace, Keith O’Connor, Luke McGrath; Seamus Casey, Kieran O’Brien, Mikey Donnellan; Damian Hill, Keith Murphy, Conor Hassett;
Subs: Ryan Casey for Hill; Mark Moloney for Eustace; Jack Cotter for Sheehan;
Referee: John O’Connell (Cooraclare)
Garry Cup
Ciaran Downes leads the way for Kilmihil
Kilmihil 2-11
Éire Óg 0-8
Venue: St Michael’s Park, Kilmihil
Ciaran Downes turned in a sparkling performance which Éire Óg couldn’t deal with in this Garry cup game on Saturday afternoon.
Downes’ addition to the West Clare side’s attack, scoring 2-05 with a goal in each half.
Kilmihil: Sean Scott Cafferky; Shane Downes, John Finnucane, Michael Keating; Conor Crowley, Fionn Febbraro, Stan Lineen; Gavin Downes, Conor Finnucane; David Coughlan, Sean Crowley, Ciaran Downes; Michael Cotter,, Martin O’Leary, David Lernihan
Subs: Niall Reidy for Cotter;Damian Lineen for Scott-Cafferky; David Kelly for Febbraro; Padraig Lynch for S. Crowley
Éire Óg: Shane Daniels; Gearoid Collins Eoin Guilfoyle, Morgan Collins; Dean Ryan, Dean D’Auria, Gavn D. Auria; David McNamara, Gordan Murray; Sean Perrill, Darren O’Brien, Ultan Shields; Andrew McElwee, Philip Talty, Liam Pyne;
Subs: Hugh Connolly for G. Collins; Sean Mullooly for G. D’Auria (inj) James Lyne for McElwee; P. O’Keeffe for L. Pyne
Referee: Barry Kelly (St Joseph’s Miltown)
First league points for Cooraclare
Cooraclare 1-12
St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield 2-7
Venue: Cooraclare
Cooraclare collected their first league points when defeating St. Josephs in in the Garry up on Sunday morning.
Kevin O’Gorman was their goalscorer as they finished strongly for a merited win.
Dara O’Shea and Paddy Bugler were the goalscorers for the Doora-Brefield club.
Cooraclare; Mark Lillis; Fergal Donnellan, Niall Kelly, Ronan Donnellan; Thomas Downes, Mark Tubridy, Jake Garry; James Chambers, Ciaran O’Donoghue; Gearoid Lillis, James Burke, Finn O’Driscoll; Dave Foran, Kevin O’Gorman, Ciaran Ryan;
Subs: Padraic O’Donoghue for N. Kelly (inj); Sean Brown for Foran; C. McNamara for C. Ryan K. Burke for O’Gorman
St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield: Tom O’Brien; Peter Collins, Dara O’Callaghan, Conal Dorgan; Sam Costello, Cian Moloney, Gearoid Nealon; Dara O’Shea, Mark Hallinan; Kieran Thynne, Dara Nafgle, Conal Kelleher; Ciaran Browne,, Jack Scannell, Paddy Bugler;
Subs: Philly Ryan for Browne; Jack Hannan for Nealon
Referee: Barry Kelly (St Joseph’s Miltown)
O’Curry’s lay the foundation in first half
O’Currys 1-9
Cratloe 1-8
Venue: Páirc Uí hEithir, Cratloe.
O’Currys laid the foundations for this win in the opening half and they led by four points at half, Jim Marrinan scoring their goal.
Cratloe fought back in the second half helped by a goal from Cathal McInerney who finished the game with a tally of 1-3 but a combination of good defending by O’Currys and saw the West Clare Peninsula ahead by the minimum when the final whistle sounded.
O’Curry’s; Dereck Troy; Jonathan Clancy, Darragh Keane, Stephen Kelly; Seamus Keane, Sean Haugh, Eoin Brew; Thomas Clancy, Cathal Downes; Paddy Clancy, Eoin Troy, Eoin Kelly; Danny Downes, Michael Foran, Shane Browne;
Subs: Jim Marrinan for P. Clancy (inj) Keith McMahon for Browne (inj)
Cratloe; Padraig Chaplin; Emmett Costigan, David Collins, Denis Mundy; Cathal Lohan, Mike Brennan, Rian McNamara; Sean Gallagher, Tommy Rooney; Luke Healy, Sean Collins, Michael Flanagan; Sean Ryan, Cathal McInerney, Aidan Murray;
Subs; Morgan O’Connell for D. Collins; Michael Mundy for Healy; Aidan Crowe for D. Mundy, Caimin Deegan for Flanagan
Referee: Niall Quinn (Miltown)
Another win for Miltown
Miltown 2-8
Wolfe Tones 1-7
Venue: Hennessy Memorial Park, Miltown
St Joseph’s Miltown recorded their second successive win the Garry Cup when they accounted for Wolfe Tones at Hennessy park on Saturday.
Goals from Liam Hehir and Cormac Murray played a big part in this win on a day when Murray also added 0-3.
Craig Riordan top scored for the Shannon side with 0-5 while their goal came when a Cian O’Rourke effort took a deflection and ended up in the net via the post.
Miltown: Sean O’Brien; Damian Devereaux, Eoin O’Brien, Cormac Devtt; Can Flanagan, Enda O’Gorman, Gearoid Burke; Oisin Looney, Darragh McDonagh; Cian Mahoney, Liam Hehir, Jamesie O’Connor; Euan Lineen, Cormac Murray, Paul Keane;
Subs used; Brian Curtin, Killian Keavey, Patrick Greene, Oisin Meade,
Wolfe Tones: Fionn McInerney; Shane Nihill, Jayme O’Sullivan, Joe McAuley; Stephen Donnellan, Aaron Brennan, Brian Murphy; Joe McAuley, Dean Devanney; Chris Dunning, Craig Riordan, Sean Costello; Conor Carigg, Colin Riordan, Dara O’Neill;
Subs; Cian O’Rourke for Colin Riordan (inj); Ben O’Neill for Carigg; Sean Brennan for J. McAuley; Cody Wallker for Costello; Conor Casey for Donnellan
Referee: Robert Harte (St Senan’s Kilkee)
