‘Standard-setter’ Séadna Morey calls time on Clare hurling career
*Seadna Morey gets away from Declan Dalton. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TWO-TIME All-Ireland winner Séadna Morey has announced his retirement from inter-county hurling.
*Seadna Morey gets away from Declan Dalton. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TWO-TIME All-Ireland winner Séadna Morey has announced his retirement from inter-county hurling.
*Áine O’Loughlin is now one of the most experienced players in the Clare team. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SEVERAL key players have opted out of the Clare senior camogie panel for 2024 which will prompt a new-look team when they begin their league campaign this weekend.
*Cork’s Fiona Keating and Niamh O’Dea of Clare. Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Jim Coughlan Clare’s dream of reaching the knock out stage of the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior camogie championship was well and truly dashed at Cusack Park on Saturday afternoon when they suffered a twenty point defeat from Cork.
*Caoimhe Kelly. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare’s campaign in the Very National Camogie League started so well when they defeated Kilkenny but three defeats in a row have left them preparing for another relegation battle.
*Caoimhe Carmody. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S senior camogie manager is confident they will match Cork this weekend.
*Clooney/Quin toast their intermediate success. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Youth and experience stepped up to the plate to see Clooney/Quin return to the Clare senior camogie championship.
*FILE PIC: Orlaith Duggan in full flight for Clooney/Quin. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography After a tight tense struggle last year’s beaten intermediate county finalists, Clooney/Quin made up for that agonising defeat to Feakle/Killanena by claiming the Fr Liam Murray Cup.
*Clare’s Aine O’Loughlin. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography Clare’s senior camogie side have held off the challenge of Westmeath to wash away any relegation worries.
Experience is a key ingredient in any championship and so it proved at sun splashed O’Garney Park in Sixmilebridge this Saturday afternoon where reigning champions Kilkenny got their All-Ireland senior camogie championship campaign off to a winning start.
Clare’s senior camogie side have secured their place in Division 1 of the Littlewoods Ireland National Camogie League for another season.