*Cian O’Rourke battles with Eoin Fitzgerald INAGH/KILNAMONA are back in the hunt for the Canon Hamilton, qualifying for the last eight along with Wolfe Tones despite overcoming the Shannon side.
*Brendan Foley. Photograph: Ruth Griffin CAUSING THE biggest upsets in this year’s Clare SHC is what Smith O’Briens and Clooney/Quin have been training for.
*Éanna Doyle fights for possession as Gearoid Sheedy looks on. Photograph: James Treacy With three wins from three starts Tubber are through to the quarter finals of the intermediate hurling championship.
*Mairead Scanlan was the top scorer for Scariff/Ogonnelloe. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill REIGNING CHAMPIONS, Scariff/Ogonnelloe kicked off the Clare Senior Camogie Championship in emphatic fashion with Truagh/Clonlara and Newmarket-on-Fergus also recording wins.
*Eddie Bourke beats the challenge of David Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill According to the saying ‘hunger is the best sauce’ and at a sun splashed Wolfe Tones grounds in Shannon this Saturday afternoon Smith O’Briens showed by far the greater hunger as they eked out a surprise but merited one point win over a fancied …
*Alva Rodgers and Scariff/Ogonnelloe begin the defence of their county and provincial titles. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill The race for the Clare senior camogie championship commences on this Friday evening with ten teams in two groups of five chasing honours.
*Crusheen’s Ross Hayes. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CRUSHEEN’S “high standards” on and off the field will need to be applied this weekend as they aspire to collect their first win of the Clare SHC while Inagh/Kilnamona still have question marks on the fitness of Conner Hegarty and Kevin Hehir.
*Tubber’s Blaine Earley. Photograph: Ruth Griffin Ogonnelloe caused a big shock in this weekend’s Clare IHC as both St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield and Tubber recorded successive wins.
*Aidan McCarthy was Inagh/Kilnamona’s top scorer. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Inagh/Kilnamona got their championship challenge off to a winning start with a merited win over Crusheen in a tie which failed to reach the heights expected.
*Inagh/Kilnamona’s Jason McCarthy will once again be a central player for them. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Avoiding the hangover of how their first county senior decider panned out will be essential to Inagh-Kilnamona’s development for 2022.