*Éire Óg’s Ikem Ugwueru. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CHASING THAT winning feeling has Ikem Ugwueru primed for battle as Éire Óg look to win a fourth Clare SFC in five seasons.
*Eimear Considine. KILMIHIL’s Eimear Considine has been called up to the Irish women’s rugby squad for next week’s Test with Australia in Belfast.
*Aoife Corey. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography A HISTORIC day for Clare rugby will transpire on Saturday as seven young athletes from the Banner will take on the iconic Barbarians in Thomond Park in the red of Munster.
*Kilmihil’s Edel McMahon in action for Ireland. For anyone that knows me well, they’ll know that my two passions have always been politics and sport. So all-consuming are these pursuits that I genuinely am baffled when I meet someone without even a passing interest in either.
Munster’s success in the Vodafone Women’s Interprovincial Championship resulted in a special visitor to an East Clare school in the past week.
*Munster’s Clodagh O’Halloran celebrates scoring a try at Musgrave Park. Picture: INPHO/Brian Reilly-Troy Kilkishen’s Clodagh O’Halloran was named as player of the match as Munster recorded their second bonus-point win of the Vodafone Women’s Interprovincial Championship.
With inter-provincial action continuing, Clare’s representation in the Munster ranks remains high.
Five Clare women have been included in an extended 39-woman squad ahead of the Senior Women Interprovincial Championships which take place in August and September.
*Chisom Ugwueru. Photograph: John Mangan Without doubt, Chisom Ugwueru is an all-rounder, she’ll turn seventeen in November and already has represented her country in rugby and athletics.