Tipperary 7-10   Clare 2-10 Played in the Ragg on Sunday, the final scoreline does not reflect fairly on a Clare side who throughout an intense encounter with the current Munster U-16 camogie champions never gave up.

Inagh Kilnamona  6-13   St Joseph’s 0-1 Inagh-Kilnamona ran out comfortable winners over St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield in their second league game of the U-16 non-county player league on Wednesday evening last in Gurteen. St Joseph’s girls battled hard, but Inagh-Kilnamona proved to be the stronger side.

Three Clare athletes won gold at the National Junior and U-23 Track and Field Championships at Tullamore on Sunday.

CLARE Community Games were well represented by 17 teams in Munster finals on Saturday last in Tralee. All teams performed very well and some were unlucky not to be among the winners. Derg won gold in both the hurling and camogie competitions. It was their first time representing Clare in the Munster finals in these categories. The following teams won gold and will represent Clare in the national finals at the national festival of sport in Athlone from August 16 to 18.

MIKE Storan (Planet Tri) scored a big win in the Clare cycling championships after an exciting night of attacking racing on the 60km Barefield-Maghera circuit.

THE world’s leading junior (U-18) cyclists are this week competing in the 2013 International Junior Tour of Ireland in Clare.

Cork 0-20   Clare 0-8 ALTHOUGH most of the Clare ladies gave their all against All-Ireland champions Cork in Shannon last Friday, the gulf in class is clear from the final scoreline. In Valerie Mulcahy, who scored 11 points, Cork had a player who Clare simply couldn’t handle, while the speed of their support play in the second half, helped the winners to pull away from Clare. The home county only scored two points in the second half but they started impressively and led 0-4 to 0-1 in the early minutes. Eimear Considine, Eimear Hillery, Niamh O’Dea and Marie Considine kicked four excellent scores in response to an early Geraldine O’Flynn pointed free. Valerie Mulcahy kicked nine successive points for Cork, with Niamh O’Dea the lone Clare player to manage a score in that spell. Perhaps Clare could have deployed an extra defender or two during this spell although if they had built a wall around Mulcahy, it probably wouldn’t have …

ENNIS qualified for the North Munster final of the Junior Cup with three impressive victories in the area competition at their own course at the weekend.