Éire Óg crowned county football champions
*Gavin Cooney celebrates. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ÉIRE ÓG are Clare SFC champions for the third time in four years after overcoming Kilmurry Ibrickane.
*Gavin Cooney celebrates. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ÉIRE ÓG are Clare SFC champions for the third time in four years after overcoming Kilmurry Ibrickane.
*Ciaran Russell is held back. Photograph: Ruth Griffin Once bitten, twice shy for Éire Óg who were much more ruthless to avoid any neighbourly ambush this time around in their second successive Clare SFC quarter-final derby.
*Liam Corry surrounded by Ian Galvin and John Conlon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ÉIRE ÓG have edged closer to the Clare SHC quarter-finals after overcoming Clonlara in the second round of the championship.
*Jamie Stack is among the new additions. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography SIXTEEN players have been added to the Clare senior football squad as Mark Fitzgerald begins his tenure as Banner boss.
Mark Rodgers. Photograph: Sport Action Photography SIX CLARE hurlers have claimed Fitzgibbon Cup medals as part of the victorious University of Limerick panel.
*Mark Rodgers in action for UL. Photograph: Sport Action Photography CLARE WILL BE WELL REPRESENTED with a total of 27 hurlers involved with Fitzgibbon Cup panels across the country.
*Clare senior hurling manager, Brian Lohan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill BRIAN LOHAN is in the process of finalising his Clare senior hurling squad for next year with a number of changes in personnel to his panel.
*Éire Óg’s marquee man, Shane O’Donnell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SHANE O’DONNELL has achieved a lot in his hurling career and he hopes to fulfil a dream of claiming a Clare SHC medal as Éire Óg take on Ballyea in Sunday’s decider.
*Shane O’Donnell controls the ball ahead of two Inagh/Kilnamona defenders. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Éire Óg exacted full revenge for last year’s semi-final defeat when brushing aside the crestfallen challenge of Inagh-Kilnamona in Cusack Park on Sunday afternoon.
*Kilmaley’s Tommy Barry. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill There was no shortage of talking points when neighbours Kilmaley and Éire Óg did battle in the opening round of the senior hurling championship at a wet Cusack Park this Saturday evening.