*Dylan McMahon and Clonlara are back in the quarter-finals of the Clare SHC. ALL quarter-final places have been filled in the TUS Clare senior and intermediate hurling championship following an exciting weekend of third round action.
*Breffni Horner leaves Eoghan Thynne behind. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. CRUSHEEN beat St. Joseph’s Doora/Barefield by 10 points to make the last eight again in the race for Canon Hamilton.
*Lorcan Fitzpatrick of Sixmilebridge. Photograph: Gerard O’Neil SIXMILEBRIDGE are preparing for a “massive battle” against rivals Newmarket-on-Fergus in the final round in Group 4 of the Clare SHC.
WHEELS are beginning to be put in motion for the reopening of Crusheen Railway Station with an estimated market of 1,700 commuters and students in the catchment.
*Lorcan Fitzpatrick gets away from Tadhg Dean and Ross Hayes. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SUCCESSIVE VICTORIES HAVE MOVED SIXMILEBRIDGE to top spot in Group 4 of the TUS Clare SHC.
*Crusheen’s Conor O’Donnell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DESPITE picking up a first round win in the TUS Clare SHC, Crusheen still head into the second round with “a little bit of nervousness,” manager Michael Browne remarked.
CRUSHEEN edged this one with a strong start and a stout finish. Newmarket will have to count the positives instead of the points with just the puck of a ball between them.
*Crusheen defender, Diarmuid Mullins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CRUSHEEN’s remarkable run to a first county senior decider in nine years last October is almost worthy of a book in itself.
*Colm Rice. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill COROFIN head into this weekend’s opening game in the senior football championship without the experience and leadership qualities of two players who have been regulars in recent seasons.
*Colin Curtis outside Ennis Circuit Court. A 38 year old man who held down his then girlfriend telling her ‘you are not leaving this house bitch until you are dead’ during a vodka-fuelled assault has escaped jail.