*Clooney/Quin toast their intermediate success. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Youth and experience stepped up to the plate to see Clooney/Quin return to the Clare senior camogie championship.
*Clooney/Quin goalkeeper, Keith Hogan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Although they suffered their first and only defeat of the Clare SHC relegation series, it didn’t prove to be fatal for Clooney/Quin in their endeavours to stay senior.
*FILE PIC: Orlaith Duggan in full flight for Clooney/Quin. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography After a tight tense struggle last year’s beaten intermediate county finalists, Clooney/Quin made up for that agonising defeat to Feakle/Killanena by claiming the Fr Liam Murray Cup.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Inagh-Kilnamona, O’Callaghan’s Mills/Bodyke and Tulla garnered the inaugural Minor Hurling Championship honours at Under 17 level amidst five underage hurling deciders last weekend.
*Killian McDermott goes to ground as Paddy Vaughan closes in. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Crusheen manager, Kevin Sheehan has expressed his hope that he will remain in charge of the Blood and Bandages next season.
*Colin Crehan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill O’Callaghan’s Mills fired the last four points to snatch victory and ensure their senior status for 2022 alongside opponents Clooney-Quin in Meelick on Saturday afternoon.
*Brendan Foley will hope to be smiling come the final whistle of Sunday’s intermediate final. Photograph: Ruth Griffin There’s no such thing as a two minute conversation with Brendan Foley. Being a hurling fanatic, his boyish enthusiasm for the sport has brought many a soul down a black hole of hurling talk that could last …
*Joint captains Ethan Harrington & Sean Tracey with Coiste na nÓg Secretary Pat Gavin and the Kerry Group U17 Academy B Trophy, Inagh-Kilnamona and Clooney-Quin will contest this year’s Under 17A Hurling Championship Final after prevailing in their penultimate stage bouts on Saturday afternoon.
*Fergal Lynch goaled in the opening half. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clooney-Quin are on the brink of consolidating their senior hurling status after completing back-to-back relegation group wins with a commanding victory over Crusheen in Shannon this afternoon.
Davy Fitzgerald is on course to be named as the new manager of the Galway senior hurlers.
