Banner Ladies favourites to beat West Clare Gaels and claim fourteenth title
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill It will be a gala occasion for Clare ladies football on this Saturday at Miltown when the senior championship final will be the centrepiece.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill It will be a gala occasion for Clare ladies football on this Saturday at Miltown when the senior championship final will be the centrepiece.
*The Harvey sisters, Grainne, Caoimhe and Shauna. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography FEW LINKS remain between the Clare ladies football team which contested the 2016 All-Ireland and this year’s set-up but as ever the involvement of the Harvey family is to the fore.
*Caoimhe Harvey. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Caoimhe Harvey has been named as the new captain of the Clare intermediate ladies football side.
It’s as you were for a new decade, just as it was in 2010 at the same venue when familiar foes Banner Ladies and West Clare Gaels locked horns.
For West Clare captain Caoimhe Harvey, her three sisters Ciara, Shanua and Grainne and the rest of the panel Sunday’s Clare ladies football final will be an emotional occasion.
Michael Carmody is in his first season as manager of West Clare Gaels ladies football team but the O’Curry’s clubman is well versed in what being involved in club football in Clare means.
West Clare Gaels recorded a five point win on Monday evening as they accounted for the challenge of Cooraclare to advance to the senior ladies football final.
*Kieran Harvey. Photograph: Willie O’Reilly (Burren Eye Photography) Personnel involved with Ladies Football and Community Games in Clare and further afield have been plunged into mourning following the death of Kieran Harvey after a short illness.