*Coolmeen’s Aidan Corry. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. SUBSTITUTE BEN Cleary netted the all-important goal to help Coolmeen claim the last of the quarter-final places in the TUS Clare intermediate football championship.
*Pat Taaffe. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. TUBBER are sixty minutes away from a return to the senior ranks, almost a decade on from their relegation in 2015.
*Ronan Monahan. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. CLARECASTLE will spend another year at intermediate hurling level after their dream of a quick return to the top tier was dashed by Tubber on Saturday evening.
*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.
*Tony Kelly’s strike tests the durability of Ger Mellerick’s hurley. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Week on week games won’t be a complaint as far as Tony Kelly is concerned.
As expected Michael Cusacks overcame the challenge of Liscannor in the intermediate football championship on Saturday and in doing so sealed second spot in their group and a place in the quarter finals of the championship.
Scariff have been crowned intermediate hurling champions after deservingly emerging victorious against Tubber on Sunday evening.
It’s been a whirlwind two year period for Domhnall McMahon.
There’s one glaring difference between Sunday’s finalists and the remainder of the clubs who have been relegated since the senior championship overhaul in 2014.
A momentum-fuelled Tubber blitzed St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield with five timely goals to power through to their third Intermediate Hurling Final in four years.