FIVE young Ennis boys delivered telling blows as they helped Our Lady of Lourdes Boxing Club in Limerick to win the best club award at last week’s Munster Juvenile Championships. Two sets of brothers, Patrick and Edward Donovan and their first cousins, Johnnie and Patrick Noel Donovan, were all crowned Munster champions, as was Martin Mongans. All five are trained by Martin Donovan, an Irish light-welterweight finalist in 2001 when he boxed out of the Ennis club. He is the father of Patrick and Edward, who are reigning Irish champions. Patrick won the 44kg Boy 3 Munster title when he beat Calvin O’Reilly from Mitchelstown in the final. On the way to the final, he defeated Emmett Lyons from Bantry in the semi-final and Jay Dalton from Clonmel in the previous round. Patrick’s brother, Edward, won the Boy 2 39kg title, beating Lorcan Hurley from Tramore in the final. In the semi-final, he stopped Jake Ryan from Ennis in Round …

Clare 1-22   Cork 1-16 Trailing by five points at half time and fortunate not to have been further behind, Clare’s chances of overcoming Cork in round three of the National  hurling league at Pairc Ui Rinn on Saturday night did not look good.

BEHIND-the-scenes moves to change GAA fixtures in Clare will not be tolerated. That was the warning issued by county board chairman Michael McDonagh at the March meeting of the board, which was held on Tuesday night at the West County Hotel, Ennis.

CLARE boxers annexed a total of 10 provincial titles in the Munster Juvenile and Youths Championships, which were held over the last three weekends in the Corpus Christi complex in Limerick City.

Former world number-one cyclist Sean Kelly attended the launch of the Stage Routes for 2013 International Junior Tour of Ireland cycling race that will be in Clare from July 2 to 7.

THE draws for the Senior A and B Hurling Championships and the Intermediate Hurling Championship title race were made at the March meeting of Clare GAA at the West County Hotel, Ennis on Tuesday night.

Lissycasey 1-7   Miltown, St Joseph’s 0-8 LISSYCASEY and Miltown, St Joseph’s ended the 2012 season in a battle to save their senior status. After a replay, Lissycasey edged home, sending the Miltown men down to intermediate for the first time in the club’s history.

Kilmurry-Ibrickane 0-9   St Joseph’s 0-7 THE first game of this year’s Cusack Cup took place in Gurteen on Friday night when title-holders, Kilmurry-Ibrickane repeated their county final win over St Joseph’s, albeit by a smaller margin.