KILMURRY IBRICKANE had an unexpectedly facile eleven point win over neighbours and rivals St Joseph’s Miltown to become the first of four semi-finalists in the Clare SFC.
*Brian O’Connell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill BRIAN O’Connell and Dermot Coughlan are stepping down as managers of the Clare minor hurlers and footballers.
*Daragh Sexton. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill KILMURRY IBRICKANE are far from dead after their defeat in the first round of the Clare SFC and they’ll be hoping to spring their championship bid to life when they meet Lissycasey on Saturday evening.
*Éire Óg’s Darren O’Neill. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ÉIRE ÓG left West Clare with two points on the board and deserving victors against a fancied Kilmurry Ibrickane on Friday evening.
*Kilmurry Ibrickane captain, Dermot Coughlan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill EXPECTATION is always high in Kilmurry Ibrickane and after a quarter-final exit last season, the Bricks are in place to rectify this.
*Clare manager, Mark Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill MISSED CHANCES and an abysmal finish were rued by Clare senior football manager Mark Fitzgerald as the county fell to their third successive loss in the championship.
*Dermot Coughlan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill UNFORCED ERRORS influenced the Banner to their exit out of the All-Ireland minor football tier 2 championship with Sligo winning by six points in Cusack Park last Saturday.
*Cillian Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S senior footballers have named an unchanged team for their opening outing in the All-Ireland SFC.
*Dermot Coughlan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IT CAME down to the first quarter for Clare’s minor footballers as they exited the Munster championship, manager Dermot Coughlan maintained.
*Clare’s Conor Burke. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Unfortunately Clare’s shot at a first Munster Minor Football Final in four years was over before it even got started in Quilty on Tuesday evening.
