*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill It was an excruciatingly difficult pill to swallow for Clare as their hopes of a first Munster Under 20 Hurling title in eleven years hinged on two contentious decisions entering the final quarter.
*Jack O’Neill. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TERENCE FAHY has named his starting team as the Clare U20 hurlers get set to make their bow in the Munster championship.
*Photograph: Páraic McMahon TIPPERARY schools prevailed over Clare counterparts on the double in the Munster post primary hurling deciders on Saturday with High School Clonmel proving far too strong for Scariff Community College.
SCARIFF Community College will hope to bridge a thirty-five-year gap when they face High School Clonmel in the Munster Colleges Senior B (Corn Tomas Mhic Choilm) Hurling Championship final this Saturday.
*James Hegarty. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Team captain James Hegarty (Inagh-Kilnamona) is battling to be fit to lead St Flannans College into Wednesday’s (January 8) Dr. Harty Cup (Munster Colleges senior A hurling) quarter final against Midleton CBS.
*Michael Barrett and Paddy Donnellan in action. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill PATRICK Crotty fired the final score to secure a draw for Scariff against Broadford in an East Clare derby in the second round of the TUS Clare SHC.
*PJ O’Connell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill O’CALLAGHANS MILLS manager PJ ‘Fingers’ O’Connell has admitted their second round tie with Inagh/Kilnamona is the game he’s been most looking forward to in the championship.
*Cormac Murphy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill BLOOD may be thicker than water but the villages of O’Callaghan’s Mills and Broadford are thankful that the lakes of Lough Gar and Doon Lough separate them as their East Clare derby rivalry is elevated to unprecedented heights in Clonlara this Friday evening (7.30pm).
*Terence Fahy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A “LETHAL” Cork side ended Clare’s aspirations of reaching back to back Munster U20 finals.
*Diarmuid Stritch on the attack for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ASPIRATIONS of Clare’s U20 hurlers reaching back to back Munster finals came undone when they were eliminated of the provincial competition by Cork on Friday evening.
