*Jack Ryan celebrates as Avenue Utd strike for their second goal via Elias Kunz. Photograph: Joe Buckley AVENUE UTD have put Newmarket Celtic out of the Premier Division title race and kept their bid for successive league honours on track.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley TULLA UTD have put a serious dent in Newmarket Celtic’s aspirations of winning the CDSL Premier Division.
*Newmarket Celtic striker Tadhg Noonan leaves Fair Green Celtic’s Shane Browne behind. Photograph: Joe Buckley THERE’s no room for slip-ups in Clare junior soccer whether it is the beginning of the season or the crunch time of the year according to Newmarket Celtic manager, Eoin O’Brien.
*Dean Hegarty celebrates. Photograph: Joe Buckley DEAN HEGARTY produced a man of the match display to send Newmarket Celtic through to the Ennis Carpets Clare Cup final.
*Conor Mullen delivers a long throw into the box. A MASTERCLASS from Steven McGann and winning by six goals was not enough to save Clare’s Oscar Traynor campaign.
*Elias Kunz returns to the Avenue Utd squad. Photograph: Natasha Barton THREE Clare clubs are in action of the fourth round of the FAI Junior Cup this Sunday.
*Clare will be without first choice goalkeeper Shane Cusack. Photograph: Joe Buckley ASKEATON is the venue on Sunday for Clare’s second game in this season’s Oscar Traynor inter league junior soccer competition.
*Scott Kirkland challenges for possession. Photograph: Joe Buckley CLARE’s Oscar Traynor side have lost out in their opening outing of the 2024/25 campaign, coming up short against a well-drilled Limerick District League outfit.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley STEVEN MCGANN’s winner in a penalty shootout crowned Avenue Utd Clare Cup champions and in the process saw the club win the double for the second time in three seasons.
*Darragh Leahy scores his first goal for Newmarket Celtic. Photograph: Joe Buckley NEWMARKET CELTIC’s bid to win a twentieth Clare Cup title moved a step closer when they accounted for Fern Celtic with ease on Friday evening.
