*Zi Yan Spillane and Ellen Casey battle with Mairead Eviston. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. MISSED CHANCES left Clare chasing the game for the entirety of Sunday’s All-Ireland senior camogie quarter-final but the side are not far away from making a big breakthrough, manager Eugene Foudy maintained.
*Jennifer Daly is tackled by Celine Guinan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE have crashed out of the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior camogie championship at the quarter-final stage for the second year in succession. Tipperary 3-20 Clare 3-14 Venue: Croke Park Six points may have been the final margin but the gulf and gap was far greater …
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*Ellen Casey. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. FACING OFF with Tipperary in the curtain-raiser to the All-Ireland SHC semi-final will be “a huge occasion” for Clare camogie.
*Niamh Mulqueen keeps her eyes on the sliotar despite losing her hurley. Photograph: Stephen Heaney / Inpho. SATURDAY’S hammering to Kilkenny “doesn’t define” the season for Clare’s senior camogie side who can still qualify for the All-Ireland quarter-finals with the right result against Offaly this weekend.
*Lorna McNamara. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’S senior camogie side have been dealt a monumental blow with confirmation that taliswoman Lorna McNamara is to miss the remainder of the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland championship.
*Clare joint captain, Abby Walsh. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. CLARE’s senior camogie side are on the road this weekend facing off with Kilkenny where the reward for the winner is a guaranteed place in the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland quarter-finals.
*Andrea O’Keeffe. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. With league honours safely secured Clare camogie’s focus is now very much on the All-Ireland championship which gets under way on this Saturday at Zimmer Biomet Pairc Chiósog where their opponents will be Dublin, the team they defeated in the league final which was played at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny.
LORNA MCNamara has been named as the April PwC GPA Women’s Player of the Month.
*Joint captains Abby Walsh and Clare Hehir. Photograph: Dave Ribeiro / Inpho CLARE have won Division 1B of the Centra National Camogie League for the very first time.
*Doireann Murphy. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography CLARE NETMINDER Doireann Murphy feels bringing a high level of intensity will be hugely important if they want to come out on the right side of the Division 1B camogie league final against Dublin.