*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.
*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.
*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.
Clare Hehir has been named as the new captain of the Clare senior camogie team.
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.
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.
A perspex screen surrounds Laura McMahon’s desk during the working day as an English and PE teacher at John the Baptist Community School in Hospital but there will be no such protection when the Clare camogie captain takes to the field for the start of the All-Ireland senior championship this weekend.
The timely litmus test for both contenders was eventually edged by Newmarket-on-Fergus after firing the last four points to progress to a sixth consecutive Clare senior camogie championship final.
*Clare Hehir shields off her opponent to aid Ciara Grogan. Photograph: Veronica McMahon Clare’s National Camogie League hopes took their first dent as Waterford ground out a gritty away victory in Cratloe on Saturday afternoon.
*Brid MacNamara at Fr Murphy Memorial Park, Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Veronica McMahon To have held the smallest of involvements with Clare camogie in the past two decades be it as a supporter, player, mentor or officer, Brid MacNamara is a name you’ll know because truth be told she is at the backbone of the organisation within …
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