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Flannan’s share the spoils in colleges final

St Flannan’s 5-7   St Mary’s, Nenagh 4-10 IN a match in which the teams were level on six occasions, with the lead changing hands regularly, a draw was a fair result when St Flannan’s played St Mary’s from Nenagh in the Munster Colleges Senior A Camogie Championship final at Newmarket on Saturday.The tie produced a very high standard of play with some excellent individual performances. There were occasions when each side looked to be taking control and the visitors were in that position when they went four points clear inside the last 10 minutes.They were still two clear as the game entered the final minute of normal time. St Flannan’s captain, Nikki Kaiser, proved to be the hero for her team with points in the 60th and 62nd minutes to ensure a second chance for the Ennis school.Points were exchanged in the opening two minutes before three converted frees by Bríd Quinn had the Nenagh school three clear by the …

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Early goals set up ’Tage for win in Shannon

  Hermitage A 2   Shannon Olympic A 1 SHANNON Olympic A were beaten in the Premier Division at home on Sunday by Hermitage A by 2-1. Despite starting the game better and looking the superior side, Olympic gave away two goals in seven minutes of the first half and this cushion was enough for Hermitage to see out the game and head back to Ennis with all three points.Ger Dullaghan was the star of the show for Hermitage, scoring first from the penalty spot after Liam Meaney was fouled in the Olympic box on 30 minutes by Jason Regan. Dullaghan doubled his tally on 37 minutes when his speculative effort from 35 yards took a wicked bounce and evaded Gary McGettrick in the Olympic goals.Olympic created plenty of chances throughout the game, most notably when a Sean O’Connor effort was cleared off the line and an Ian Hogan shot, which came off the post but a combination of poor finishing …

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Galway stand between Clare Youths and play-offs

THE Clare Youths side will travel to Galway on this Sunday to play the Connacht outfit in the inter-youths cup. A win for Clare will guarantee them a place in the next stage of the competition as they have already defeated the other team in the group, Roscommon. Sunday’s match will kick off at Terryland Park at 2pm.Clare won’t finalise their team for this important tie until Sunday morning. This is due to the involvement of Avenue in the National U-17 Cup on Saturday when they play Pike Rovers and quite a number of their team are part of the Clare panel. They include goalkeeper, Nathan Murray, Paddy O’Malley, Kaylan O’Loughlin, Dylan Casey and Nicki Twumasai.Due to his overseas commitments, Casey wasn’t available for the team’s first-round 1-0 win over Roscommon.Clare played Galway twice in last year’s competition. After a 2-2 draw in the group stage, Clare beat their neighbours comfortable in the quarter-final before losing out to Kilkenny in …

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A happy hunting ground for Clare owners

THE Aylevarroo venue for the Killimer-Kilrush coursing meeting last weekend proved to be a happy hunting ground for Clare owners. Windfarm Eiscir won his second cup of the season, Ocean Toula captured the all-age bitch stake for Parteen owner Tom Fitzgerald and members of the Gaisce syndicate from the Miltown Malbay area were celebrating their success in the Oaks Trial Stake. In-form Windfarm Eiscir is hard to beat. He proved that through his cup win at the regional meeting and he gave a repeat performance at Aylevarroo, where he won the Gilligan and McMahon Memorial Age Cup (16) in impressive style for trainer Pat Curtin and Ennis owner Claire Eustace and in the process collected more points in his campaign for a second tilt at the Champion Stakes at Clonmel.A winner at Kilflynn and runner-up at Castleisland, Kyle King was hotly tipped to reign at the Killimer-Kilrush event. He was in flying form when winning his first round on Saturday. …

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Captains and presidents reunion

During the year, Spanish Point lady captain Breda Murphy and captain Mike Hennessy, on behalf of the parent club, hosted a first former captains and presidents’ re-union, which included a round of golf and an enjoyable get-together reception afterwards. Amongst the former officers who attended were three who were in office in the 1960s, Dr Michael O’Connor (captain 1963), James Meade (captain 1964) and Dot Bolster (lady captain 1968). Sunday’s scotch foursomes winners were Bernie O’Halloran (19) and Gerry Gallagher (22) with 44 points.In this week’s seniors open, Gerry Meade (17) was the winner with 37 points from Doonbeg’s Paddy O’Grady (15).The weekly turkey competitions continue while the annual general meeting of the club’s management committee will take place this Saturday.EnnisEnnis seniors held a team-of-four competition last Thursday and the winners with 71 points were Peter Farrelly, Michael Torpey, Sean O’Gorman and John White from John Guerin, Michael Kerin, Tim Ryan and Johnny Cullinan with 68. In third spot were …

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Flanagan enjoys purple patch on two tracks

As well as winning an A4-graded 525 with his own Petosterous (Droopys Kewell-Coldwar Baby), Tom Flanagan,’s breeding was also to the fore in other races at the Galway Greyhound Racing Stadium on Thursday night.Pinnacle Muffin (Boherduff Light Coldwar Baby) won an A4-graded final and the runner-up was Mythical Tar from the same litter. Pinnacle Rocy, also from the same litter, won an S2-graded sprint race while Flandy’s Secret (Boherduff Light-Flandy) owned by Conor Flanagan, was third in an A6 final.To top it off, Flanagan from Russa, Ennistymon, was also among the winners in Limerick on Friday night. Middlepark Mal (Droopys Maldini-Scattery Maid), trained by the North Clare man for Ennistymon publican Michael Marrinan, won for the third time on the trot.In Galway on Thursday night the Seamus Leahy-owned Headford May (Ballymac Maeve-Teddy Hoe), with three wins from three outings, was the hot favourite to keep her 100% record intact and she obliged with another fine win, this time with a …

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Quin jockey off to a winning start

Quin jockey, Paul O’Neill opened his account for the season when riding the first winner of the day at last Sunday’s West Waterford Hunt point-to-point meeting at Boulta in East Cork. A very experienced pilot, O’Neill was aboard 8-1 shot Definite Memories in the first division of the opening four-year-old maiden for Wexford trainer, Pat Cloke and the pair came good when registering a very impressive success.Help up in the early stages, the daughter of Definite Article, who was making her debut, knew the job very well and having jumped to the front two out she ran on really strongly to beat runner-up Eugene O’Sullivan’s Lady Milano by four lengths.Enniscorthy native, Cloke, who has care of the winner for his brother, Tom, said, “Paul gave this mare a great ride. He is one of the most underrated jockeys in the country and I get him to ride my horses all the time. He’s a very good horseman and is especially …

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Clare riders jump to glory

Cavan Equestrian Centre hosted its annual end-of-season pony show last week.With over 1,500 entries, the competition was of a very high standard.The show included the final of the Cavan Kingsland League and the Tansan Properties Pony Champions Tour Final. Riders have been gaining points for these finals since last March and it paid off, with the following Clare Pony Riders claiming the spoils.Results148 – 90cm (dc) Margaret McCarthy’s Lecarrowmore, Kate McCarthy.148 – 1.00 (dc) Patrick O’Brien’s Blazer, Sean O’Brien.148 – 1.10cm (placed) 1. Margaret McCarthy’s Inshaalah Grey, Kate McCarthy. 5. Catherine Harrington’s Gentle Lady, Tom Foley.148 – 1.20cm (placed) 1. Carmel King’s Crown Jewel, Tom Foley.128 – 70cm (dc) Yvonne Casey’s Jacksun King, Eimer Casey.128 80cm (dc) Kevin Reidy’s King of Rock n Roll, Jack Reidy.138 – 90cm (dc) Anthony Malone’s Ballinvella Polly, Alison Malone. Yvonne Casey’s Gowerhass Boy, Eric Casey.138 – 1.00m (placed) 3. Simone Barry’s Dalligans Drifter, Kieran Barry; 4. Carmel King’s Dundrum Lady, Patrick McNamara. 6. John …

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