Ennistymon 2-9   Éire Óg 0-7 ENNISTYMON scored a comprehensive Round 1 Cusack Cup win over Éire Óg in Ennis last Sunday.

Long time Bridge Celtic FC official Joe Aherne is to be honoured by the FAI. The club celebrated its golden jubilee at a function in the Castle Oaks Hotel in Castleconnell on Saturday night where news of Aherne’s upcoming honour was announced. The club was founded in 1963 and the weekend function was attended by a number of the club’s first members. Guests of honour were FAI general secretary, John Delaney and Clare District League chairman, Donie Garrihy.Club chairman, TJ Burns was the MC for the evening. Five members of the first team to represent the club in 1963 were in attendance; Pat Aherne, John Walsh, Tom Kiely, Haulie Fitzgerald and Joe Aherne. Fitzgerald, the team’s first goalkeeper returned from New York for the function, while Tom Kiely, the club’s first captain, travelled from Dublin. Fitzgerald was one of the club’s founders along with John Ryan and Eddie Storan. These five have been invited as VIPs by the FAI secretary …

Lifford A 2   Newmarket Celtic B 1(after extra time)Lifford A were pushed all the way in this tie and needed extra-time to dispose of the challenge of visitors to Cassidy Park, Newmarket Celtic B.

Avenue United B 4   Shannon Olympic A  6 In a high-scoring game, Shannon Olympic A came out on top against Avenue United B in this first division tie. The winners conceded home advantage when their pitch wasn’t playable and they travelled to Lees Road.Declan McDonald was the star of the show, scoring four goals on a day when his side were 3-1 in front at the halfway point, Avenue’s first-half goal coming from Dara Kerins.

Kilrush Shamrocks 0-12   Kilmurry-Ibrickane 1-7 DESPITE playing almost the entire match with 14 men, Kilrush got their campaign off to a winning start. John Hayes, who returned to the Clare panel last week, was red carded in a incident involving Seamus Lynch in the second minute.

COMEDIAN Conal Gallen is coming to Glór on Friday evening.The Donegal man says his show doesn’t work to a formula, with little if any planning going into what material will be used on a given night.“It’s two hours, there’s about six songs in it, mostly comedy songs, maybe one serious one. I get on the stage at eight o’clock and the audience are wondering what’s coming next and so am I.“I don’t learn off stuff in order, it’s just what comes into the head. Sometimes I’d start a joke and half way through you’d move onto something else. I’ve often started a joke at ten past eight and maybe at 10pm I go back to it.”His songs are all tongue in cheek, with titles like Horse It Into Ya, Cynthia, Do Your Ears Hang Low and Rolling in the Hay and he describes himself as “a comedian who sings songs rather than a singer who tells jokes”.As is often the …

Feakle-Killanena 3-14   Wolfe Tones 0-13 Feakle-Killanena continue in the race for the U-21B Hurling Championship title and a meeting with O’Callaghan’s Mills after they accounted for Wolfe Tones at Clarecastle on Saturday.