Football semi-final draw throws up repeat county final pairings
*David McNamara is tackled by Joey Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TWO REPEAT county finals are on the horizon for the semi-finals of the TUS Clare senior football championship.
*David McNamara is tackled by Joey Rouine. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TWO REPEAT county finals are on the horizon for the semi-finals of the TUS Clare senior football championship.
KILMURRY IBRICKANE had an unexpectedly facile eleven point win over neighbours and rivals St Joseph’s Miltown to become the first of four semi-finalists in the Clare SFC.
*David Tubridy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill WITH three ‘derby’ contests, the quarter final games in this weekend’s TUS senior football championship contain the ingredients for exciting ties.
*Joe McGann and Cillian Rouine will be clashing in the quarter-final stage. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DERBY ties are to be reignited in the last eight of the TUS Clare SFC while the exit of Mark Fitzgerald as Clare senior football manager after just one season has sent shockwaves across the county.
*Darren Hickey keeps a firm hold of Eoin Cleary. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill THREE derbies are on the cards in the quarter-finals of the TUS Clare senior football championship.
*Maccon Byrne gets past Brian Curtin. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ALL QUARTER-final places have been filled in the Clare senior and intermediate football championships.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SUNDAY’s scheduled quarter-finals in the Clare senior ladies football championship have been deferred by two weeks.
*Photograph: Burren Eye Photography BANNER LADIES and Kilmihil claimed top spots in both groups of the Clare LGFA senior championship to advance directly to the semi-finals.
*Kilmurry Ibrickane’s Joshua Moloney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SUCCESSIVE wins have sealed Kilmurry Ibrickane’s place in the quarter-finals of the TUS Clare SFC.
*Clare FM’s Derrick Lynch. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography CLARE FM has received six nominations and Ennis reporter John Cooke is up for news story of the year at the IMRO Radio Awards.