*Clonlara’s Micheál O’Loughlin. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill The wheel has come full circle for Micheál O’Loughlin since he last tasted a county senior final in Cusack Park.
*Donal Madden, Ray McInerney and Ray Stewart with the Tulla intermediate hurlers in 2020. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLONLARA have turned to one member of their championship winning side from 2008 to manage their senior hurlers this year.
*Cathal ‘Tots’ O’Connell was the hero at the death for Clonlara. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Five minutes from the end of normal time in this senior hurling championship tie at O’Garney Park on Saturday afternoon Whitegate led by seven points and Clonlara’s championship hopes were hanging in the balance.
*Inagh/Kilnamona full-back Keith White collides with John Conlon. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Emerging from the ‘group of death’ has brought a fantastic lift to the Inagh/Kilnamona senior hurling panel.
*Kevin Hehir. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A third win on the trot in this season’s senior hurling championship has propelled Inagh-Kilnamona to the top of the table in the five team group and into the play offs in the race for the Canon Hamilton.
*Cathal ‘Tots’ O’Connell will be key to any Clonlara charge this season. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill For all of Eddie Horgan’s plans and ambitions when taking on the role of Clonlara manager for the 2020 season, the reality is that he is still to see his best 15 take to the field for any competitive match.
Reigning Senior B hurling champions Clonlara will continue with the same management this year.
A Clonlara woman has been appointed as the new principal at the Children’s Ark School at University Hospital Limerick.
New management teams are finding it more difficult to advance in the 2020 Clare SHC and SFC which has been dubbed as “the COVID championship”.
The 2019 intermediate champions Broadford booked a place in the senior championship quarter finals when they defeated a fancied Clonlara outfit at Cusack Park this Sunday afternoon.
