*Sean Withycombe is choked up by Éanna Doyle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Action continued in the Clare intermediate hurling championship (IHC) over the weekend with six of the quarter-finalists vying to win the Paddy Browne Cup now known.
*Myles Cummins and Breda Casey with Breda’s sister Eileen Crosby (left). Photograph: James Treacy MYLES CUMMINS AND Breda Casey had a trio of winners to mark the return of greyhound racing.
Ruan GAA and Camogie Club held a very successful Summer Camp which saw 102 boys and girls enjoy a great week of hurling and camogie from Monday to Thursday of last week.
*Jack Lynch and John Arkins. Photograph: Joe Buckley NORTH CLARE has been deprived of a visit from the Jack Daly for over seven decades and the last two surviving men from the region with Clare SFC medals are hopeful the drought will soon end.
*Éanna Doyle fights for possession as Gearoid Sheedy looks on. Photograph: James Treacy With three wins from three starts Tubber are through to the quarter finals of the intermediate hurling championship.
*Tubber’s Blaine Earley. Photograph: Ruth Griffin Ogonnelloe caused a big shock in this weekend’s Clare IHC as both St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield and Tubber recorded successive wins.
The death has occurred of one of Ruan’s and Clare’s finest hurlers, Pat Henchy.
*Conor Tierney was among St Josephs Doora/Barefield’s goal scorers. Photograph: Ruth Griffin The race for the intermediate hurling championship got underway at the weekend with all four scheduled ties going the way of the favourites.
ADDITION OF LAY PEOPLE to the Ministry of Pastoral Care and Ministry of Catechist are among the Killaloe Diocesan appointments announced by the Bishop.
*Ruan’s Robin Mounsey gets away from Cillian McGroary of Corofin, their paths will cross this weekend. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ACTION BEGINS IN the Clare intermediate hurling championship (IHC) this weekend with games in both Group 1 and Group 2.
