Clare overcome Westmeath challenge to avoid relegation battle
*Clare’s Aine O’Loughlin. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography Clare’s senior camogie side have held off the challenge of Westmeath to wash away any relegation worries.
*Clare’s Aine O’Loughlin. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography Clare’s senior camogie side have held off the challenge of Westmeath to wash away any relegation worries.
*Eimear Kelly tries to get a block in. Photograph: Veronica McMahon A fortunate goal three minutes into the second half proved crucial as Galway ended Clare’s All-Ireland senior camogie ambitions for 2021 at a sun splashed Kenny Park in Athenry this Saturday afternoon.
Experience is a key ingredient in any championship and so it proved at sun splashed O’Garney Park in Sixmilebridge this Saturday afternoon where reigning champions Kilkenny got their All-Ireland senior camogie championship campaign off to a winning start.
*Little space is afforded by either Marian Quaid and Becky Foley. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography Limerick’s maintained their current hold over neighbours Clare after completing a league and championship double in Clarina on Saturday afternoon.
Clare’s senior camogie side have secured their place in Division 1 of the Littlewoods Ireland National Camogie League for another season.
Niamh O’Dea will make her first appearance of the year for the Clare senior camogie side as they fight to retain their status in Division 1 of the National Camogie League.
*Limerick capitalise on a Clare turnover. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A successive defeat has left Clare’s senior camogie side in a relegation battle of the Littlewoods Ireland National Camogie League Division 1.
*An injured Ciara Doyle is carried off the field by Stephen Cusack & Claire Commane. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography Clare’s senior camogie side shows one change from the starting fifteen which had a five point defeat to Galway in the opening round of the National League.
*Ziyan Spillane takes on Ciara Grogan, both of whom are included in the Clare team. Photograph: Sport Action Photography Feakle/Killanena’s Ziyan Spillane is to make her Clare senior camogie debut this weekend.
The Clare senior camogie players have been preparing for the past number of weeks for the opening round of the National League when they are due to meet Galway on Saturday May 15 at Kenny Park in Athenry but at this moment they don’t know whether or not the game will take place.