*Éire Óg’s Gavin Murray in action during their 2023 win over St Joseph’s Miltown. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. QUARTER-FINAL pairings have been made for the Clare senior, intermediate and junior football championships.
*James Curran in action with Podge Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ST JOSEPH’S Doora/Barefield are using the gap between round three and the Clare SFC quarter-finals to get injuries right with the possibility of Tom Curran lining out in the knockout stages said to be “fifty fifty”.
*Aidan McCarthy and Aaron Fitzgerald will renew rivalries. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. FOUR excellent quarter-finals are on the cards in the TUS Clare SHC following Monday’s draw for the last eight.
*Noel Purcell gathers possession for Sixmilebridge. Photograph: Ruth Griffin SIXMILEBRIDGE have qualified for an eighth Clare SHC quarter-final in nine years after a ten point victory over St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield saw them put back to back wins together.
*Lynda Daly was among those to impress for Scariff/Ogonnelloe. ONE-SIDED affairs marked the start of the Clare Credit Unions Senior Championship on Friday evening.
*Laurie Ryan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. BANNER LADIES bounced back to winning ways in the Clare ladies football senior championship.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ROUND THREE of the TUS Clare SFC threw up some rollercoaster ties as the way to the knockout stages is clear.
*Liam Markham and Cian McDonagh compete for possession. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ENDA BOYCE’s fifty ninth minute kick saw Cratloe record consecutive victories booking their place in the quarter-finals of the TUS Clare SFC while despite successive losses scoring difference also sends St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield through to the last eight.
*St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield’s Fionn Kelleher & Diarmuid O’Donnell of Kildysart in action. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill KILDYSART, St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield and Cratloe enter the third round of the TUS Clare SFC vying to claim the last two quarter-final spots on offer in Group 1.
*Áine O’Loughlin of Truagh/Clonlara in action with Scariff/Ogonnelloe’s Susan Daly. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. THE race to be crowned Clare Credit Unions senior camogie champions gets underway on this Friday evening with four games down for decision.