ENNIS boxers met with mixed fortunes in the finals of the National Juvenile (boys 1, 2 and 3) Boxing Championships at the National Stadium in Dublin last Friday and Saturday.

After two rounds of the Clare Champion Cup, there are five unbeaten teams, four of who have maximum points.

Whitegate 1-18   Wolfe Tones 0-16 Former Wolfe Tones player David Considine returned to the role of team manager with his adopted Whitegate this season and on Saturday he led them to his former club, where they recorded a merited Division 1B win to collect their first points of the campaign.

FOLLOWING a meeting between Bord na nÓg Iomaint, the Clare Referees’ Association and the county board coaching officer Eamonn Fennessy, it has been agreed that referees will visit the dressing rooms before all U-14 games to explain what will be expected in terms of discipline.

THE European Showjumping Trials (leg 1) for juniors, young riders and children on horses were held in Barnadown, County Wexford last weekend, with success for Tom Foley, Belisle Stables, Clonlara.

AT this week’s meeting, a request from Newmarket hurler Ronan Goode to be allowed to play football with Doonbeg was referred to the Competitions Control Committee (CCC).

GALWAY GAA hurling official Joe Byrne presented NUI Galway’s inaugural Player of the Year Awards at a special ceremony at the university on Monday night.

There were no major surprises as the race for the Clare Cup continued on Sunday, when all eight quarter-finalists were decided.