Championship pairings focus the minds for ladies football clubs in Clare
*Reigning senior champions, Kilmurry Ibrickane. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography LADIES FOOTBALL championship pairings have been made in Clare.
*Reigning senior champions, Kilmurry Ibrickane. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography LADIES FOOTBALL championship pairings have been made in Clare.
CLARE’s senior hurling side will not be climbing the steps of the Hogan Stand this summer but there was success for some Clare hurlers in Croke Park over the weekend.
*Éire Óg’s Luke Pyne takes on Charlie Hannan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ÉIRE ÓG are through to the finals of the Cusack Cup while O’Currys have been relegated from the Garry Cup for the first time in over a decade.
Feakle will begin the defence of the Canon Hamilton senior hurling championship against last year’s intermediate hurling winners Wolfe Tones while Eire Og, holders of the Jack Daly cup for the senior football championship, will face Cratloe in the opening round of that competition. The draws, made earlier this Monday evening at Clare GAA headquarters …
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*Kilmurry Ibrickane’s Caoilfhinn O’Dea takes on Ennistymon’s Brian McNamara during their Cusack Cup clash. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. NEIGHBOURS Éire Óg and St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield are through to the knockout stages of the Cusack Cup while relegation from the top tier awaits Kildysart and Corofin.
*Ikem Ugwueru. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. AN ELEVEN point loss to Kerry in the Munster final is “not the end of the road” for Clare’s senior footballers, Ikem Ugwueru has said.
*Lissycasey’s Cian Meaney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ST JOSEPH’s Doora/Barefield, Lissycasey and Éire Óg lead the way for honours in the Cusack Cup with Kilrush Shamrocks and Clondegad both managed by Kilmurry Ibrickane men pushing for promotion from the Garry Cup alongside St Breckan’s and Doonbeg.
*Francis McInerney. FRANCIS McInerney is the only living Clare man to have captained the county to glory in the Munster senior football championship and he’d only love to have that title taken away from him this weekend.
*Mark McInerney celebrates scoring a goal for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FRESH from producing a man of the match display for Clare’s footballers, Mark McInerney dedicated the Munster semi-final win to the late Dylan White.
A LIFE full of laughter, adventure and compassion was lived by Dylan White who was laid to rest “before his time” in his native Ennis on Monday.