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TWO Clare women will be hoping to help Ireland’s volleyball team to victory in a European Qualifier round robin series in Iceland this weekend. Caitríona Ní Riordáin and Amy O’Sullivan, both from Ennis, will play the first of the qualifiers tonight against The Faroe Islands at 9pm. Ireland face three countries over three consecutive days. Following this evening’s Faroe Islands game, they play host nation, Iceland, at 3pm Saturday and the concluding match is against neighbours, Scotland on Sunday also at 3pm. Caitriona plays as a libero and Amy is an outside hitter. They both play for club, Munster Thunder. Amy has recently featured for the Ireland U19s who picked up silver in the recent CEV Small Countries Association Championships and now makes the step up to the senior team. The matches can be viewed on the following YouTube channel, or you can type BLÍ – Blaksamband Íslands into YouTube.

COLÁISTE Muire, Ennis have qualified for the All-Ireland senior A volleyball final, which will be played in UCD on Wednesday December 12. Members of the current team won the Junior schools shield in 2013, the Junior schools Cup in 2014 and the Cadette A in 2016. This is the second time the school will contest the senior A final, having lost out to Naas two years ago while the schools second senior team won the B final last year. They defeated Holy Family Newbridge, three sets to one, in the semi-final, which was played in UL Arena on Tuesday. Colàiste Muire lost the schools senior cup final in a five set match against Newbridge last April in Kilkenny so it was a sweet victory. The squad has trained really well and are determined to bring the senior A title to Ennis for the first time. Their opponents will be decided on Friday when St Mary’s Naas play St Raphael’s Loughrea. …