*Fionn McInerney will be among the young players expected to deliver for Shannon Town. Photograph: Joe Buckley SHANNON TOWN UTD have no choice but to rely on their successful Youths side of last season to step up for their first team.
Conor Mullen watches from behind as Conor Hehir and Billy Connors battle for the ball. Photograph: Joe Buckley After a week in which decisions in the meeting rooms had dominated Clare soccer discussions, the focus on Sunday was on the premier league and followers weren’t disappointed as both Newmarket Celtic and Avenue United failed to …
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*Photograph: Natasha Barton Shannon Town Utd kept their Premier Division title aspirations alive with a valuable 5-1 away win over Mountshannon Celtic.
There were a number of impressive performances by Clare sides as the race for the FAI Junior Cup got underway at the weekend.
*Shannon Town’s Gary O’Connell. Photograph: Joe Buckley Gary O’Connell was the hero as Shannon Town A opened their Maloney Garden Machinery Premier Division campaign with a victory over Lifford on Sunday morning.
It was one of the longest penalty shootouts to take place in Ireland but it just increased the sense of disappointment for Shannon Town as they bowed out of the Munster Junior Cup.
*Aidan Kennedy was the star man for Connolly Celtic. Photograph: Oliver Fitzpatrick Connolly Celtic staged a dramatic comeback to send last year’s beaten Clare Cup finalists Newmarket Celtic B out of the competition.
*Kieran Mahony keeps the ball at his feet watched by Brian O’Connor & Gary O’Connell. Photograph: Joe Buckley Newmarket Celtic extended their lead at the top of the Maloney Garden Machinery Premier Division with Alan Kelly’s second half goal the difference in a tame Sunday morning affair.
