Championship-like buzz extending to the sideline for Tulla Harty Cup mentor Aidan Harte
TWO MONTHS ON from his retirement from inter-county hurling, Aidan Harte is still experiencing a championship-like buzz ahead of Saturday’s Dr Harty Cup final.
TWO MONTHS ON from his retirement from inter-county hurling, Aidan Harte is still experiencing a championship-like buzz ahead of Saturday’s Dr Harty Cup final.
ST JOSEPH’S TULLA competing in the Dr Harty Cup final is the “stuff of dreams,” manager Terence Fahy admitted.
*Ronan O’Connor and Evan Maxted show their delight at the final whistle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ST JOSEPHS’S TULLA’s qualification for a first ever Harty Cup final due to the dogged determination of their young hurlers.
A PERFORMANCE brimming with character saw St Joseph’s Tulla advance to their first ever Harty Cup final.
What makes St Joseph’s run to the Dr Harty Cup semi-final all the more impressive is the fact that they had to produce comebacks to see off St Colman’s College and now Christian Brothers College.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill The protracted Clare Senior Hurling Championship relegation issue finally concluded this evening, with no team being demoted to intermediate level for 2022 following a vote at the special meeting of Clare GAA in Treacy’s West County Hotel.
CONCERNS with the understaffing of Clare GAA with regards to full-time coaches have been raised.
FORMER Clare senior hurling captain, Brian O’Connell, ex county manager Cyril Lyons and two-time All Star Brendan Bugler are among the names to take charge of the Banner’s hurling teams next season with continuity expected for the football teams.
*Competing schools pictured at the recent launch in Cusack Park. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Starting a new U15 post-primary hurling competition represents “a step forward on a lot of fronts” for underage development in the county, former Clare manager Donal Moloney has said.
*Inagh/Kilnamona’s Conner Hegarty in full flight. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Desperately unlucky to lose by the minimum margin to Clonlara last time out, Whitegate followed up on that performance when sharing the spoils with an Inagh/Kilnamona outfit that went into this final group game in the senior hurling championship carrying the favourites tag.