Clare Echo’s 2023 Sporting Awards
*John Conlon celebrates at the final whistle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IN ITS UNIQUE way, The Clare Echo sporting awards are the pinnacle of accolades that all athletes and coaches aspire to win.
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Dreams of success in Croke Park become a reality for Clare captain Sinead O’Keeffe
*The Kilmaley trio of Caoimhe Cahill, Sinead O’Keeffe and Grace Carmody at the homecoming in Hotel Woodstock. Photograph: John Mangan SINEAD O’KEEFFE, Clare’s All-Ireland winning Junior camogie captain is confident their success will lead to more days out in Croke Park.
Clare set the way in second half to be crowned All-Ireland Junior camogie champions
*Captain Sinead O’Keeffe and Sinead Hogg. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE are Junior All-Ireland camogie champions for the fifth time having overcome the challenge of Tipperary to deservedly take the honours.
Clare begin League bid against All-Ireland champions
*Clare camogie joint captain, Niamh O’Dea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S senior camogie team begin their National League bid where they face off with the reigning All-Ireland champions, Kilkenny.
Limerick leave Clare’s seniors in league relegation battle
*Limerick capitalise on a Clare turnover. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A successive defeat has left Clare’s senior camogie side in a relegation battle of the Littlewoods Ireland National Camogie League Division 1.
Injury keeps Doyle out of Clare fifteen
*An injured Ciara Doyle is carried off the field by Stephen Cusack & Claire Commane. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography Clare’s senior camogie side shows one change from the starting fifteen which had a five point defeat to Galway in the opening round of the National League.
Spillane & Foley to make debuts for Clare’s senior camogie side
*Ziyan Spillane takes on Ciara Grogan, both of whom are included in the Clare team. Photograph: Sport Action Photography Feakle/Killanena’s Ziyan Spillane is to make her Clare senior camogie debut this weekend.
Hehir appointed Clare camogie captain
Clare Hehir has been named as the new captain of the Clare senior camogie team.
Clare senior camogie side seal place in All-Ireland quarter-finals
An eleven point winning margin saw Clare’s senior camogie side book their spot in the All-Ireland quarter-finals for the first time in six years.
Clare fall short in camogie championship opener
In a display that could only be admired, Tipperary emphatically secured the opening points of this year’s Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship on Sunday afternoon.
