Sports

Woodstock and Shannon are chasing All-Ireland honours this week. Shannon are in Ardee in Louth for the ladies’ intermediate final. They play Clontarf in the quarter-final, with a place in the semi-final against Mullingar awaiting the winners.

Jessica Harrington’s team are in flying form at present and the Moone, County Kildare handler wasted little time in opening her 2011 Listowel festival account when sending out the gambled-on Paradise De Thaix to land the featured Dawn Milk Handicap Chase at the Kingdom venue on Sunday.

THE traps will rise on Cratloe GAA Club’s fundraising benefit night at the new Limerick Greyhound Stadium on Friday, September 23. The special night of greyhound racing, which commences at 7.45pm, features a 12-race card.

Banner Ladies 1-14West Clare Gaels 1-13 NIAMH O’Dea inspired Banner Ladies to a deserved county final triumph at Doonbeg on Saturday evening.

Galway 1-21Dublin 1-12 FORTUNATE to have beaten Clare after extra time in the semi-final, Galway were comfortable winners over Dublin in the All-Ireland minor hurling final at Croke Park on Sunday.  

Doonbeg 0-12Liscannor 0-9 THE margin between failure and success can be very thin when scoring averages are a deciding factor, as Liscannor’s experience on Saturday shows. If Alan Flaherty had converted an injury-time goal chance, the North Clare side would have preparing for a quarter-final rather than a relegation scrap.

Lissycasey 0-9Ennistymon 0-8 A STRONG second-half performance at Cooraclare on Saturday proved decisive for Lissycasey as they pipped Ennistymon and, in the process, won a place in the quarter-final of the championship.

Kilmurry Ibrickane 0-14Wolfe Tones 0-6 NOBODY in Lissycasey realised it at the time but referee Michael Fitzgerald set a trend of sorts eight minutes before half-time, when he went down holding his calf. Later that afternoon, All-Ireland hurling final referee, Brian Gavin’s afternoon was interrupted when a hurley interfered with his nose, holding up the game for four minutes.