*Truagh/Clonlara celebrate. WINNERS of the Clare senior camogie title for the first time last year, Truagh/Clonlara will have the McMahon cup in the parish for a second successive year after they retained the title at the expense of Inagh/Kilnamona.
*Truagh/Clonlara’s Sinead Hogg goes for the sliotar. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. CLARE senior camogie champions Truagh-Clonlara are one step away from retaining the McMahon cup but they had to dig deep at O’Garney park in Sixmilebridge on Saturday evening.
PICTURED: Niamh Mulqueen attempts to put in a block. Photo by Gerard O’Neill Cork 2-19 Clare 1-4 Cork had their expected victory over Clare in round 3 in the Glen Dimples All-Ireland senior camogie championship at Cusack Park this Saturday afternoon.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IT WAS a disappointing day for Clare camogie on Saturday as both the senior and intermediate sides suffered defeat in the Glen DimpleX All-Ireland championships.
*Áine O’Loughlin. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare camogie’s joint senior team captain Aine O’Loughlin believes that the squad “have learned a lot from being in a tough group in the league. We know where we are at, we know our structure better and we are better prepared”.
*Hannah Mai Neylon tries to get through the Cork defence. CLARE were a level off Cork as they fell short in the Munster senior camogie semi-final.
Susan Daly tries to clear her lines. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Galway commandingly garnered the derby spoils but a battling home performance from a fresh-faced senior side did hint at some promising raw materials in their Division 1A bow in Cusack Park.
*Truagh/Clonlara’s Laura Foley. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TRUAGH/CLONLARA begin their first shot at Munster camogie glory this weekend.
*Áine O’Loughlin. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ÁINE O’Loughlin never had any doubt but that she was going to go for goal when Truagh/Clonlara were awarded a 20m free in the third minute of ‘added time’ in Saturday’s Clare senior camogie final.
*Laura Foley gets away from Abby Walsh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TRUAGH/CLONLARA’s victorious senior camogie side made themselves a promise to replicate the success of the Clonlara hurlers.
