*Kilmaley’s Mikey O’Neill. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill KILMALEY have a month to regroup and recharge after recording back to back wins in the Clare senior hurling championship.
*Ann Marie McGann. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ANN-MARIE McGann was a selector with the junior side when differing managements were in charge of the county’s two adult sides prior to 2022, since then she has been ever-present on the sidelines with both outfits in their pursuit of glory.
*Dara Nagle had an important goal-line clearance in the closing stages. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ST JOSEPH’S DOORA/BAREFIELD TOOK one step towards making the knockout stages of the Clare senior football championship when overcoming last year’s beaten semi-finalists Corofin. St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield 1-11 Corofin 0-12 Venue: Wolfe Tones GAA Grounds, Shannon In a repeat of the …
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*St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield’s Tom McDonald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TWO UNSUCCESSFUL outings in the Clare senior hurling championship has strengthened the determination within the ranks of St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield to kick their football campaign off on a winning note.
*Brian Cahill. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Kilmaley fired the last seven points to finally protect their perfect start to this year’s championship in Clarecastle on Saturday afternoon.
*Ronan Monahan weaves through the Smith O’Briens defence of Evan Connolly, Cian Nolan and Mark Stritch. Photograph: Ruth Griffin TWO MORE teams will be relegated from the senior ranks this season so the opportunity to jump from the intermediate grade to the top tier is all the greater for the fifteen teams in action.
REPEATED CRITICISM with the “sub-standard” motorway exits in Co Clare has been voiced.
*Fergus Madden puts the sliotar past Paul Madden. Photograph: Ruth Griffin WINNING their opening senior championship encounter for the first time since securing promotion from the intermediate ranks in 2020 heralded a “huge victory” for Scariff.
*Scariff’s Keelan Hartigan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SCARIFF BECAME the first side to put points on the board in the Clare senior hurling championship accounting for St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield on Saturday afternoon.
*Darragh O’Shea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Any thoughts of St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield gradually assimilating themselves back at senior level quickly evaporated last month when pooled in the dreaded group of death alongside back-to-back county champions Ballyea, then reigning Clare Cup champions Kilmaley, 2021 county finalists Inagh-Kilnamona and 2020 intermediate winners Scariff.
