*Fionn Kelleher and Diarmuid O’Donnell in action. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. MOVING round of the Clare senior and intermediate football championships arrive this weekend where places in the knockout stages can be secured.
*Matt Shea of Lissycasey. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. LISSYCASEY are treating Friday’s second round showdown with Kilmurry Ibrickane as “winner takes all”.
*Martin Daly and Caoilfhionn O’Dea. SHOWING no signs of rustiness, Caoilfhionn O’Dea led from the off to be named Martin Daly Autos/The Clare Echo player of the week.
*Niamh O’Dea in action with Megan Downes Rigney in last year’s county final. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill THIRTY two teams spring into gear as the Clare ladies football championships kick off this weekend.
*Conor Burke and Josh Moloney celebrate Kilmurry Ibrickane scoring a goal. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography KILMURRY IBRICKANE were one of the standout sides from the opening round of the Clare senior football championship (SFC), manager Enda Coughlan admitted they played “some unbelievable stuff” but mixed it with “some awful stuff”.
Caoilfhionn O’Dea gets away from Alan Sweeney. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography KILMURRY IBRICKANE kicked off proceedings in the Clare SFC with a bang, netting four goals in a comprehensive victory over St Breckans.
*Kilmurry Ibrickane captain, Dermot Coughlan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ABSENCE makes the heart grow fonder, in the case of Kilmurry Ibrickane time away from the Jack Daly makes them ravenous to reclaim the throne of Clare football.
*Amy Sexton. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. AMY SEXTON and her Clare teammates have endured some heartbreaking defeats since she first joined the panel in 2019 but they remain determined to challenge for top honours in the TG4 All-Ireland intermediate football championship.
*Lissycasey’s Darragh Killeen. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. LISSYCASEY have qualified for the final of the Cusack Cup with St Breckans and St Joseph’s Miltown to meet in the semi-finals while Ennistymon relegated St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield.
*Pictured: Séan Cummins, Oran Hehir, and Daithi Óg Canny A RURAL West Clare school is on a high following a double Munster footballing success. Annagh National School (NS), located in Kilmurry Ibrickane and home to just 81 pupils, is celebrating an extraordinary run at the highest levels of primary school Gaelic football. Following their coronation …
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