*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. KILMIHIL players will not be returning to the Clare intermediate ladies football panel in advance of the championship.
*Eimear Considine. Photograph: Dan Sheridan / Inpho EIMEAR CONSIDINE is one of the Clare sporting stars of her generation and is within a hour of recording her greatest achievement in management and coaching.
*St Joseph’s Spanish Point celebrate their Munster success. HAVING bagged the Munster and Clare colleges senior A ladies football titles in recent weeks, St Joseph’s Spanish Point are hoping to qualify for an All-Ireland decider.
*Photograph: John Sheridan. A leading figure in Inagh/Kilnamona and Clare camogie teams, Fiona Lafferty is well placed to comment on the task facing St Josephs, Spanish Point in Saturday’s Munster post primary schools senior A ladies football final when they will stake on Mercy Clonmel.
*Timmy Ryan addresses the Kilmihil panel. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography KILMIHIL senior ladies football know they are facing a big challenge on Sunday but manager Timmy Ryan says they are focusing “on what we have and if we deliver on that we have a great chance”.
WITH HIGHS and lows aplenty throughout the sporting year, it’s been twelve months to remember on and off the field with plenty of competition for the sought-after Clare Echo sporting awards.
Eimear Considine. Photograph: INPHO/Evan Treacy KILMIHIL’s Eimear Considine has announced her retirement from rugby at the age of thirty three.
*Eimear Considine. KILMIHIL’s Eimear Considine has been called up to the Irish women’s rugby squad for next week’s Test with Australia in Belfast.
*Dean Ryan kicking a point for Clare. Photograph: Martin Connolly ÉIRE ÓG’s bid to win three Clare SFC titles in a row has been strengthened by the return of Dean Ryan to the club.
*Kilmihil’s Edel McMahon in action for Ireland. For anyone that knows me well, they’ll know that my two passions have always been politics and sport. So all-consuming are these pursuits that I genuinely am baffled when I meet someone without even a passing interest in either.