*Ennistymon captain Eoin Rouine in possession. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ENNISTYMON showed a spirited display to overcome Doonbeg in the first round of the Clare SFC for the second year running.
*Ennistymon captain Eoin Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. TREMENDOUS ambition and character exists within the Ennistymon football side who will need to mix both ingredients to create a season to remember.
Éanna Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ÉANNA Rouine has been remembered as “talented beyond measure” with his death bringing a darkness over North Clare and further afield.
*Ennistymon players celebrate. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ENNISTYMON have won back to back U21A football titles and did so by winning on a penalty shootout against North Clare rivals St Breckans.
*Sean Rouine, Joey Rouine, Brendan Rouine, Ciaran Vaughan, Cillian Rouine, Eoin Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill WITH NO LESS THAN TEN of the Rouine clan forming part of the Ennistymon panel, to call it a family affair for the football mad North Clare crew is certainly an understatement.
*Eoin Rouine is held by Joey Nagle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S U20 footballers have bowed out of the Munster championship with a second half scoring blitz from Kerry pushing them out the exit door.
Clare advanced to the Munster U20 football semi-finals where they will face Kerry following an easy win over Tipperary on Monday evening.
*Micheál Garry starts at midfield. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE U20 boss, Michael Neylon has named his starting fifteen to take on Tipperary in Monday evening’s Munster quarter-final.
Clare under 20 football manager Michael Neylon believes that his charges face a serious test when they take on Tipperary in the Munster championship at Hennessy Park in Miltown Malbay on Monday evening (7p.m.).
Ennistymon have stormed into the quarter-finals of the Clare SFC and taken the scalp of last year’s beaten finalists Cratloe in the process.