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Laois 3-16Clare 3-13CLARE travelled to O’Moore Park in Portlaoise last Saturday in the knowledge that victory would secure them a place in the Division 2 final against Limerick.

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Cork 6-8Clare 4-7When Cork midfielder Doireann O’Sullivan won the throw-in of this first-round meeting of the Munster U-16A championship, it took her a mere 20 seconds before she had registered Cork’s first goal in what would be a 10-goal game.

Clare 1-18Fermanagh 4-9Three points in the closing five minutes, one each from team captain Niamh Keane, top scorer Niamh O’Dea and corner-forward Eimear Considine, ensured Clare an even share of the spoils in this entertaining national league tie at Clarecastle on Saturday evening.

CommentA CURSORY glance at either the NFL Division 4 or the NHL Division 2 league tables underlines Clare GAA’s lowly standing. Losing at home to Roscommon on March 20 consigned Clare to Division 4 league football for the fifth successive year in 2012. Had the leagues not been realigned into four divisions in 2008, Clare’s stint in the bottom division would be nearer 10 than five years. The old Divisions 2A and B disguised the reality that Clare were a Division 4 team long before 2008.

IT may well be early in the domestic GAA season and this weekend hurlers across the county will play in what is only round two of the senior, intermediate and junior A leagues but the fact that there are just four weeks to the opening round of the senior and intermediate hurling championship should ensure that there will be plenty of competitive games this weekend.