*Colm Cleary. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. HAVING SPENT the first eight months of the year working in The World Trade Center in Amsterdam, Colm Cleary has regained his place on the O’Callaghans Mills team but it is much stronger than the side he left behind.
*PJ O’Connell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill O’CALLAGHANS MILLS manager PJ ‘Fingers’ O’Connell has admitted their second round tie with Inagh/Kilnamona is the game he’s been most looking forward to in the championship.
*Stiofan McMahon gets away from Conor Cooney. Photograph: Ruth Griffin BROADFORD prevailed in the East Clare derby against neighbours O’Callaghans Mills to claim the first points on offer in Group 2 of the TUS Clare senior hurling championship.
*Colm Cleary races past Stephen O’Halloran. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clarecastle have been relegated for the first time in their 136 year history after O’Callaghan’s Mills held firm in an expectedly anxious relegation battle in O’Garney Park.
*Colm Cleary set the way for O’Callaghans Mills. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill O’Callaghan’s Mills snatched a dramatic victory at the death to deny Sixmilebridge a place in the quarter-finals of the Clare SHC.
*O’Callaghans Mills forward, Conor Henry. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill An already momentous weekend for O’Callaghan’s Mills was fittingly completed by a fairytale fin-ish when prevailing by the minimum to garner a first Clare Cup crown in 28 years on home soil on Sunday evening.
*Bryan Donnellan rolled back the years for the Mills. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A twenty year gap was bridged at Dr. Daly Park in Tulla on Sunday afternoon when O’Callaghans Mills defeated Scariff to qualify for the FutureTicketing Clare Cup (senior hurling league) final.
*Sean Rynne hit the all-important equaliser for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Bemoaning their lack of injury-time luck in 2022, Clare certainly tested their newfound fortune to its optimum when firing the last three points to snatch their second successive draw of the Munster Under 20 Championship in TUS Gaelic Grounds on Wednesday evening.
*Ian MacNamara in action for the Clare U20 hurlers. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill KILLANENA’S IAN MACNAMARA captained UL’s Fresher Hurlers to an All-Ireland league title on Tuesday night with eight Clare hurlers featuring over the hour.
*Colin Crehan is one of the more potent goal-scorers in the Clare SHC. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill While those involved with the various teams setting out in the race for the Clare senior hurling championship may have different views as to their chances of winning the title, they all agree that how they do in the …