*Tara Rynne (centre).
ENNISTYMON Community school’s senior footballers travel to Limerick on this Friday hoping to bridge a three year gap by winning back the Corn Sheain Ui Mhurchu.
This trophy is presented to the winners of the Munster colleges senior C football championship.
Their opponents in the final are Presentation College Mardyke in Cork and the game is set for a 12 noon start at the TUS Moylish campus in Limerick.
The North Clare side is managed and coached by Tara Rynne and Lawrence Healy, both members of the teaching staff in the school.
“We last won this title in 2022 and were promoted to the B grade before coming back down this year”, Tara Rynne told The Clare Echo.
A member of the Inagh/Kilnamona club, Tara has been part of the teaching staff at the school since 2013 and she immediately got involved with coaching and training school teams.
A year after joining the teaching staff she managed the senior hurlers to the Munster D championship.
In 2017 she was managing both the school’s hurling and football sides which won the county senior titles.
In 2022 she managed the school football team and was coach with Jason Daffy to the school’s hurling team. Both teams reached the All-Ireland finals but defeat as their lot in both,
Tara who received her secondary education at St Joseph’s Spanish Point, plays camogie with her native Inagh/Kilnamona and football with St Joseph’s Miltown.
Tara is happy to report that Ennistymon will select from a full panel for Friday’s final.
Six of the panel are members of the Clare minor football panel while Colm Breen is with the county under 20 squad and joint team captain Conor Rynne is a member of the Clare under 20 hurling panel. Alex Leyden is the other joint captain.
The players who are part of the Clare minor squad are Donnacha O’Dwyer, Conor Burke, Jack Lavin, Daniel Healy, Jodie McMahon and Oisin Tierney.
“In the opening round we beat Spanish Point and then accounted for Doon from Limerick in round two. In the semi-final we overcame Glanmire from Cork”, Tara explained.
As the North Clare side puts the final touches to their preparations Tara admits to knowing “little about Glanmire other than they are a strong rugby school and they are still in the race for the Munster senior school’s rugby cup”.
Concluding she said “it’s all systems go for the final. There is big interest in the game and over one hundred students from the school will be travelling to support the team”.
Victory on Friday will result in an All-Ireland semi-final against Ulster opposition a week later.
