*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.
*Peter Duggan was to the fore in getting Clooney/Quin over the line. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill An exciting opening outing in the relegation play-off went the way of Clooney/Quin who fired the final five points of the contest to edge out Clarecastle.
*Liam Corry and Jason Loughnane will cross paths once again this Saturday. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill The stakes are heightened this weekend at both ends of the senior hurling championship as the race for the Canon Hamilton Cup heats up just as much as the relegation ‘Group of Death’.