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Clare 3-19Down 0-5 CLARE went into their All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship quarter-final at Cusack Park in Mullingar on Saturday as strong favourites to progress but few would have expected their passage to be so easy.  

Newmarket 4-17Éire Óg 0-13 CLARE Champion Cup holders Newmarket moved to within a step of retaining the title when they proved too strong for Éire Óg in the first of this year’s semi-finals at Clarecastle on Sunday.

Clare Transplant athlete Eoghan O’Neill from Granahan, Newmarket-on-Fergus attended a motivational talk at ALSAA sports Complex, Dublin on Sunday.

A one-point win over Clarecastle at Shannon last Saturday evening earned Newmarket a place in the Division 3 Intermediate Hurling League final. The final score was 0-14 to 1-10.

The 139th annual Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show is fast approaching. Clare is well represented at the event as usual with 30 exhibitors bringing horses to the Ballsbridge show grounds over the course of the five days.

Clare Ladies U-18 Footballers make their last trip of the season when they travel to Birr for an All-Ireland U-18B final clash with Roscommon next Monday at 12 noon, refereed by Des McEnery (Westmeath).

  St Joseph’s, Doora-Barefield 1-7 Éire Óg 0-8 A total of four points from play indicates that this game was not of a particularly high quality. The end result however propelled St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield into the club’s first Cusack Cup final where they will met Kilmurry Ibrickane. Playing Cusack Cup football for just the second season in their history, St Joseph’s confirmed their place as the second most consistent team in Clare, behind Kilmurry, by qualifying for their third final since last October, when they lost the county final. They reached and were beaten in this season’s O’Gorman Cup final, where they lost to Kilmurry in Doonbeg. Last Sunday’s semi-final was played in Gurteen in windy conditions although the wind appeared to be cross-field. With the teams tied 0-4 each at half time the first score of the second half was the games defining moment. Corner-forward and dependable free taker Cathal Duggan sent a high, dropping ball into the Éire …

  Clare 1-19 Tipperary 1-7 CLARE qualified for the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship quarter-final on Saturday in Portalaoise with a comprehensive 1-19 to 1-7 win over Tipperary. When the sides met in the round-robin stage four weeks ago, Tipperary left Clare reeling with a 13-point victory, having bossed Clare all around the field in Semple Stadium.On Saturday in O’Moore Park, they came up against a side determined to prove the performance at Semple Stadium wasn’t an accurate reflection of Clare’s current form. And prove it they did, especially with their second-half performance, which left Tipperary well beaten throughout the field.The opening half was a tightly contested affair, with Ailish Considine opening the Clare tally with a point from play, having received a pass from Kate Lynch. Tipperary’s Noreen Flanagan equalised two minutes later, before Claire McMahon, who was flawless from placed balls throughout, pushed Clare in front with two frees. Nicole Walsh pulled one back for Tipperary with a free …