*Fred Hegarty celebrates with Ronan Kilroy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE practiced penalties in advance of their dramatic Munster U20 final victory and it certainly paid off, wing forward Fred Hegarty maintained.
*Clare captain Eoghan Gunning. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE have won the Munster U20 hurling championship for the first time since 2014, defeating Tipperary following a dramatic penalty shootout.
*Captain Eoghan Gunning excelled in defence for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’S U20 hurlers have recorded successive wins in the Munster championship, making hard work of it yet again but getting over the line nonetheless.
*Ronan Kilroy and Paul Rodgers. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’S U20 hurlers were ‘relieved and flattered to get out of jail’ by starting their Munster championship with a victory.
*Fred Hegarty prepares to fire Clare’s goal. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FRED HEGARTY’s late goal saw Clare’s U20s pip Waterford in the first round of the Munster hurling championship.
*Inagh/Kilnamona joint captains Shane Woods and Seán Rynne. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. INAGH/KILNAMONA went ahead for the first time on fifty seven minutes to go on to become U21A hurling champions for the fourth time beating Éire Óg.
*Inagh/Kilnamona’s Fred Hegarty. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ÉIRE ÓG will look to win a first U21A hurling title since 2010 and Inagh/Kilnamona are striving to bridge a seven year gap when the clubs meet in Sunday’s county final.
*Ricky Wynne and Shane Woods keep the sliotar from Marc O’Brien. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. FAVOURITES Inagh/Kilnamona qualified for the Berwick Callinan Murphy Solicitors U21A hurling final with a powerful finish to the first half seeing them on their way to overcome Cratloe.
*Aidan McCarthy gets away from Éanna McMahon and Breffni Horner. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. THREE goals inside the opening eight minutes sent Inagh/Kilnamona back into the Clare Cup final for the second year in a row.
*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.