*Clare manager, Colm Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill “One thing we said after the Donegal game was that whatever happened today there was going to be a serious performance and we did do that but just came up a little short”.
*Padraig Kelly of St Breckan’s. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. All final round games in the Cusack and Garry cup football competitions were played at 2p.m. on Monday and at the end of play the teams going forward to the knock out stages and those making the drop down the ladder were confirmed.
*Cooraclare’s Micheál Garry. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Cooraclare put themselves in a strong position to reach the semi-final of the Garry cup (division 2) when they defeated their neighbours Kilmihil in round 6 at Kilmihil on Tuesday evening.
*Emmet McMahon loses possession to Hugh McFadden. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IT WAS A STARK TURNAROUND so far as playing championship games in Cusack Park was concerned for Clare’s senior footballers.
*Miltown goal scorer, Cormac Murray. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill St Joseph’s Miltown moved a step closer to a return to the Cusack cup when they defeated a hitherto unbeaten Kilmihil in round 5 of the Garry Cup last Tuesday evening.
*Dara Moynihan takes on Darren O’Neill. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill HOPES OF A 1992 repeat quickly vanished when Kerry had three goals tucked away by half-time, the latest episode of The Water Break attempts to pick up the pieces on where it went wrong for Clare’s footballers.
DOUBLE VICTORIES were recorded for Cooraclare owner James McMahon and Sixmilebridge trainer Stephen Murray in Galway over the weekend while Ollie Hester bowed out after twenty years at the helm.
*Clare selector, Declan Downes. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill LEGACY. Kerry may have the tradition of the two counties competing in Sunday’s Munster final but there’s a rich legacy among the personnel involved with the Clare cause.
*Colm O’Brien takes on Conor Finucane. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography THE RACE for the Cusack and Garry Cups has passed the halfway stage and Clondegad and St Joseph’s Miltown remain the leaders in Division 1 and 2 respectively.
After the most incredible four weeks of canine action, the Con & Annie Kirby Memorial saw the aptly named Clonbrien Treaty announce himself as a future superstar, producing a brilliant display to emerge an easy and most deserving winner of the €80,000 to the winner showpiece at the Limerick Track on Friday night last.