Clare to face Tipperary & Dublin in All-Ireland camogie campaign
Clare’s opponents in the 2020 All-Ireland senior and junior championships have been unveiled.
Clare’s opponents in the 2020 All-Ireland senior and junior championships have been unveiled.
A winter All-Ireland camogie championship will take place for the first time, later this year.
*Orlaith Duggan. Photograph: Gary Collins Travelling to Cusack Park or the Gaelic Grounds would ordinarily offer Orlaith Duggan the rare prospect of lining out for Clare in a county ground, instead she’s found herself taking swabs at both locations over recent weeks.
*Ger O’Connell. Photograph: Bryan Keane (INPHO) Consistency. That elusive final ingredient which has been the ultimate difference between the top three of Cork, Kilkenny and Galway and the rest of the senior camogie counties again boiled to the surface of the post-match debate in Cratloe on Saturday afternoon.
*Amy Barrett. Photograph: Caroline O’Keeffe Ger O’Connell is still hopeful members of the Munster championship Scariff/Ogonnelloe side that have not returned to the county panel will line out with Clare in 2020.
*Clare Hehir keeps Miriam Walsh under pressure. Photograph: Caroline O’Keeffe Huge psychological belief has been gained following Clare’s two point win over Kilkenny in the Littlewoods Ireland National Camogie League.
*Clare’s Orlaith Duggan. Photograph: Caroline O’Keeffe Clare made it two wins from two in the 2020 Littlewoods Ireland National Camogie League when overcoming All-Ireland finalists Kilkenny in the Marble City.
“Progress” is the main objective for Ger O’Connell in his second year as manager of the Clare senior camogie side.
*Laura McMahon chases Galway’s Niamh Kilkenny. Photograph: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo Clare are ready to make inroads in the Littlewoods Ireland National Camogie League, Clare captain Laura McMahon has outlined.
*Scariff Ogonnelloe captain, Mairead Scanlan Scariff/Ogonnelloe have had the dream campaign from winning their first county senior championship to matching it with a provincial equivalent, sixty minutes on Sunday will decide if they can progress to the All-Ireland final.