Successive wins push Feakle towards quarter-finals
Eoin Tuohy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FEAKLE MOVED closer to a place in the quarter finals of the TUS senior hurling championship when they defeated Clarecastle at Shannon on Saturday afternoon.
Eoin Tuohy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FEAKLE MOVED closer to a place in the quarter finals of the TUS senior hurling championship when they defeated Clarecastle at Shannon on Saturday afternoon.
*Clarecastle goalkeeper, Cian Broderick. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARECASTLE are closing in on a decade since they reached the knockout stages of the Clare SHC and with growing experience in their ranks they are quietly confident of causing an upset to get back to the quarter-finals.
*Adam Hogan is set for a successive start at corner back. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior hurlers are close to full strength with just two changes to the starting team for Sunday’s fourth round league tie versus Galway.
Mark Rodgers. Photograph: Sport Action Photography SIX CLARE hurlers have claimed Fitzgibbon Cup medals as part of the victorious University of Limerick panel.
Clarecastle’s Cian Galvin. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Persistence was essential for Broadford to finally garner their first championship victory in two years and send Clarecastle into the relegation mix in Cusack Park on Sunday afternoon.
*Adam Hogan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill BRIAN LOHAN has added three members of the Clare U20 team to his senior panel ahead of the start of the Munster senior hurling championship.
*Conner Hegarty is the Clare U20 captain. Photograph: Chris Copley The meeting of Clare and their great rivals Limerick in the opening round of the Munster U20 hurling championship at the TUS Gaelic grounds in Limerick next Wednesday starts a very busy period of provincial championship action for Banner county underage sides.
*Mark Rodgers. Photograph: Ruth Griffin SCARIFF’s Mark Rodgers has been included in the Electric Ireland Higher Education GAA Rising Stars Hurling Team of the Year.
FITZGIBBON CUP medals are making their way back to Co Clare following the success of the University of Limerick.
*Ryan Taylor. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill RYAN TAYLOR will make his first appearance of the year for the Clare senior hurlers in the only confirmed change to the starting team for Sunday’s Munster Hurling Cup final.