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League Cup race begins

The race for the second and Third Division League Cup titles will begin this Sunday.McDonagh Park in Newmarket will host the meeting of Newmarket Celtic B and Manus Celtic B in Group B on Sunday morning at 11am.In Group A at the same time, Shannon Olympic B and Treaty Celtic will meet at Shannon, while Kilkishen Celtic and Tulla United B will clash at Kilkishen.The race for the Third Division title will also begin on Sunday with West Clare United at home in Kilrush to Kilmaley Fern Celtic at 11am and Hermitage C at home to Lifford B at the Fairgreen at the same time. On Wednesday evening, the Premier Division Cup gets underway with games in both the A and B groups.In Group A, Lees Road will be the venue for the meeting of Avenue United and Burren Utd, while Rineanna Rovers will have home advantage against Ennis Town Rock and both games will kick off at 6.30pm.On the …

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Clare take bronze medals in National League final

THE Clare team won bronze medals at the National League Final, which took place in glorious sunshine in Tullamore. The young Clare team assembled against the best in the country, Tallaght AC Riocht, Galway City Harriers, Kildare County, Tipperary County, Sligo County and Olympians AC.The competition between the teams ensured that the championships went down to the final event, which was the relays.The first athlete to take part was David Courtney, Ennis Track, who in the men’s 110m hurdles set a new personal best of 20.18s to finish fifth. David later returned to his field event and finished second in the pole vault, clearing 2.40m and sixth in the triple jump with a leap of 9.77m.Eamon Cleary, Shannon AC, turned in a superb performance when finishing second in the shot putt with a final throw of 10.19m. He captured third spot in the discus when he threw 29.63m.Lunga Bulman, Marian AC, demonstrated his great versatility by finishing sixth in the …

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Successful Junior Tennis Championships in Ennis

The Ennis Junior tennis championships concluded last Saturday. The standard was very high in all competitions with many players showing the benefits of tough competition over the summer in a number of events on the Munster circuit. The championships were organised by junior coach, Jason Comerford and his committee. The results from the finals are: U-10 girls: Rhona Kearney bt Edith Kearney; U-10 boys: Seosamh Ryan bt Eoin Carroll; U-12 girls: Karen McNamara bt Chris Kearney; U-14 boys: Nathan Darcy bt Mark Duffy. U-16 boys: Matthew Cooney bt Ciaran O’Brien; U-18 boys: Eoin Power bt Roger Mulcaire; U-12 and U-14 doubles: Chris Kearney and Niamh O’Shea bt Karen McNamara and Lana Browne; U-18 boys doubles: Eoin Power and Roger Mulcaire bt Ciaran O’Brien and Michael McMahon. Senior championshipsThe senior tennis championships commence on Monday next, with draws taking place at the weekend. The usual singles and doubles events across A, B and C grades are scheduled with tennis captain, Kieran …

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A winning start for Kilkishen

Kilkishen 2-9   Scariff-Ogonnelloe 3-5 Kilkishen defied the odds to secure their first points of the Senior Camogie Championship with a hard earned one-point victory over Scariff-Ogonnelloe on Sunday afternoon in Tulla. On paper, Scariff-Ogonnelloe were the stronger team and in the opening half. With the wind at their backs, they dominated all over the field. They had 1-2 on the board in the opening quarter, which would have been more but for some wayward shooting and the play of Claire Baker in the Kilkishen goals, who pulled off some great saves to keep her side in the game. Kilkishen’s scores in the opening half, coming from placed balls, were well taken by Kate Lynch, leaving Scariff-Ogonnelloe in front 1-4 to 0-2 at the break. The Kilkishen management obviously used the half-time break to have some stern words with their charges, as it was Kilkishen who resumed in determined fashion, scoring 1-2 inside the opening three minutes to level matters. A …

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Level pegging in Sixmilebridge/Éire Óg thriller

Sixmilebridge 3-3   Éire Óg 2-6Supporters were treated to a real thriller on Wednesday evening in Sixmilebridge when the home side and Éire Óg clashed in the U-16A championship. Nothing separated them at half-time, with the score at 2-2 each and the sides remained deadlocked at the full-time whistle Éire Óg took the lead in the fifth minute with a well-taken goal from Elana Bradley. Sixmilebridge quickly replied with a goal and a point from play. Orla Devitt pushed the visitors ahead once again with an unstoppable shot to the net, which she followed with a point. Sixmilebridge rallied and edged ahead with a goal and a point. Devitt brought the sides level with a pointed free just before the break.The visitors sniffed victory when they pushed ahead with three hard-earned points, two from Gráinne Nolan and one from Elana Bradley. Their three-point lead was wiped out, however, when a Sixmilebridge shot came off the crossbar and the rebound was sent …

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Large entry for second World’s End Triathlon at Castleconnell

OVER 220 competitors made their way in very welcome late summer sunshine to the waters edge in Castleconnell on Saturday morning last for the second World’s End Triathlon, organised by Castleconnell Boat Club.  A new race category Try-a-Tri was introduced this year to accommodate competitors who may be new to the triathlon discipline and wished to opt for a shorter swim of 175m rather than the full swim of 750m being undertaken by those in the full sprint category. At around 12.15pm, the swim got underway for the main body of competitors sporting blue swimming caps, they were joined in the latter stages of the race by the Tri-a-Tri competitors with their white caps, who entered the water at a point closer to the finish line.  Every style of swimming was apparent with those choosing to use the backstroke taking up the rear of the field. All were under the watchful eye of several canoeists who tracked the swimmers on …

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Clare owners dominate Galway with two doubles

CORGRIGG Harry was the first of a total of 11 Clare-owned winners at the Galway Greyhound Stadium over the weekend. Into the bargain, Ballyea-based trainer, John Browne sent out two winners at the same venue on Thursday night and Quin trainer, Frank Browne repeated that effort with another double on Saturday night.Declan Browne, Ennis, also a member of the Cree family who have the Burnpark prefix, started the ball rolling on Thursday night with the Kieran Browne-trained Corgrigg Harry. In the first race of the night, an A8 graded 525, the son of Catunda Harry-Rathmeehan Angel, bred by John Browne, came away smartly from trap three to set up a two-length lead at the opening bend, where there was bunching among the outside runners. The winner extended his lead to six lengths down the back but nearer home he was begining to give ground to Glenfort Dusk. However, he held out to beat Brigid D’Arcy’s black bitch by one and …

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Clare ladies head for Clonmel

A number of ladies teams from Clare clubs will be in Clonmel this Saturday for the Munster ladies team finals.Dromoland, Shannon and Lahinch have teams competing for provincial honours.Lahinch will be the first into action, taking on East Cork in the Junior Cup final at 10am.In the intermediate final, Shannon will take on Thurles at 10.50am. Dromoland have two teams in finals with the minor team playing Templemore at 11.40am and the Challenge cup team taking on East Cork at 12.30pm.Each team comprises five players playing in singles and at least three must win for the team to progress to the national finals that will take place in September. Holmpatrick CupLahinch, having won the Clare final of the Holmpatrick Cup at Woodstock in July, have reached the final hurdle in their “race to St Andrews” at Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort on Sunday. Harry Eakins (14) and Ger Dunworth (6) contest the Munster final, where they will have stern …

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