*Cian Galvin of Clarecastle gets away from Ruan’s Ryan Power. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARECASTLE’s dramatic comeback against Ruan has knocked Tulla out of the Clare PIHC with Parteen/Meelick also exiting the championship following their loss to Tubber.
*Patrick O’Connor charges out of defence for Tubber. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. SIXMILEBRIDGE and Smith O’Briens look to be on course to battle it out in the Clare Premier Intermediate Championship (PIHC) relegation race while Bodyke and Whitegate are edging towards the knockout stages.
*Dara Nolan of Parteen/Meelick gets away from Sixmilebridge’s Caimin Morey. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. BODYKE caused a major shock in the second round of the Clare premier intermediate hurling championship (PIHC) overcoming Tulla, they along with Clarecastle and Parteen/Meelick picked up their first wins as Whitegate recorded a successive victory.
*Daragh Corry of Tulla takes on Clarecastle duo Harry Doherty and Eoghan Wallace. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. TULLA, Tubber, Whitegate and Ruan are off the mark with wins in the opening round of the Clare Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship (PIHC).
*Shane Punch in action with Fearghal Kearney during last year’s Clare PIHC quarter-final. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. A RETURN TO the top table is the aspiration for all ten teams setting out in the Clare Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship (PIHC).
*Smith O’Briens GAA. A FATHER who head-butted another Dad at an East Clare GAA ground has been convicted of assault but has escaped a jail term.
Eoghan O’Donnell, Ronan O’Sullivan, Seán McGreal and Cathal Lyons. Photograph: Rachel Lyons Photography CRUSHEEN claimed the Minor C hurling championship for the fifth time in their history.
*Cian Fitzgerald Bradley. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FOUR teams remain in the race for the Pappy Callaghan trophy which was last week, presented to Clare GAA by the O’Callaghans Mills and Bodyke clubs.
*The incident took place on the grounds of Smith O’Briens GAA club last May. A FATHER who head-butted another Dad at an East Clare GAA ground “sees red and takes off – that is the problem”.
*The incident occurred last May. A FATHER lost control when head-butting a GAA coach in front of young children playing hurling at an under-10s training session in Killaloe in May of last year, a court has heard.