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Woodstock win Pierce Purcell title

Woodstock were crowned All-Ireland Pierce Purcell champions on Friday when they defeated Corrstown by 3.5 to 1.5 in the final at Castlerock in Antrim.In the semi-final on the previous day they had overcome the Connacht champions, Athenry.In the final, Frank Doherty and Mike Kelly lost 8 and 6 but three comprehensive wins after this led to the pairing of Declan Coote and Jimmie Kelly being called in. Jason Considine and Brian Mulcahy had a 4 and 3 win, Tom Hehir and Martin Dormer were 8 and 7 victors while Shane Fitzgerald and Michael O’Brien recorded a 6 and 5 success.The team was feted at a function in the clubhouse on Saturday night following their return home.This was Woodstock’s second time winning the Purcell, having being successful in 2003 when Jimmie Kelly, Liam McInerney, Michael O’Brien, Mike Kelly and Frank Doherty were team members. Assistant manager Robbie Dormer was a member of the 2003 team.In the Wednesday open singles, Ross Darmody …

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Carkill makes Ennis Championship history

The 2011 Ennis Tennis Championships concluded on Sunday with a series of great finals. The highlight of the tournament was the performance of Ennis man and graduate of the club’s junior section, Robbie Carkill, who captured a clean sweep in the three A grade titles.The club’s historians estimate that it is 20 years since Carkill’s feat was last achieved. It was the first time that he won the Singles A title and in doing so he displayed a rich range of shots and assertive tactics. On the way, he overcame the holder and three-time champion, Joachim Pintao. The gents’ singles A tournament is the club’s blue riband event and Sunday’s final was the 67th occasion that the PJ Cahill Cup was presented. In the gents’ doubles, Robbie was partnered by fellow Ennis man, Dave Clohessy. In the mixed competition he teamed up with Angela O’Sullivan. It was also her first time to win at A level. In the ladies A …

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Olympic rally to claim victory

Lifford A                         1 Shannon Olympic A     2 (after extra time) Shannon Olympic accounted for Lifford A in the Munster Junior Cup at Cassidy Park on Sunday.  The winners created some good scoring chances in normal time but failed to avail of any of these until just before the final whistle when Ritchie Hanley struck for the equaliser.Lifford had taken the lead through Darren O’Neill and looked like progressing to the next round when this goal still divided the teams as the game went into injury time.The winning goal came from Jay Regan just before the end of the first period of extra time.While there was disappointment for Lifford on Sunday, there was joy three days earlier when the Ennis side scored a 6-0 win over Mountshannon Celtic, a result that earned them a place in the League Cup final against Avenue United.Lifford’s goalscorers in that tie, also at Cassidy Park, were Darren O’Neill and Scott Hennessy (two …

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McNulty clinches national rally title

Meath’s Tim McNulty (Subaru WRC) and his Sligo co-driver, Paul Kiely clinched the Dunlop National Rally championship with a fine victory in the Ennis-based Auburn Lodge Clare Rally. It was their sixth victory in as many Dunlop outings and on this occasion, they finished 53 seconds in front on the Subaru of Niall Maguire/Barry Goodman with Kevin Barrett/Sean Mullally (Subaru WRC) a distant third.Sam Moffett/James O’Reilly (Mitsubishi) won the Group N category and the top modified crew was that of Wesley Patterson/Martin McGarrity (Ford Escort).The Dunlop Drive of the Day award was won by Mike Quinn/Grainne McEnery (Ford Escort).Meanwhile, in the Dunlop Junior Rally championship, Monaghan’s Johnno and Padraig Doogan (Ford Escort) finished second and took top points to move into the lead with just one round remaining. Remarkably, all three of their championship rivals failed to finish.On the opening stage near Ruan village, McNulty took a 12-second lead over Niall Maguire, who had no intercom for the last four …

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Minor hurling championship reaches knock-out stage

Ballyea   2-14 Clonlara   0-12 AFTER last weekend’s games in the Clare Minor A Hurling Championship, the way is clear for the knock-out stage. The quarter-finals are set for the weekend of October 1 and 2 and Clooney-Quin, Clonlara, Newmarket and Clarecastle will be in action. The pairings will be decided when the result of the Sixmilebridge v Clarecastle game is known.Ballyea and Sixmilebridge are already through to the semi-finals.In the minor B championship, the quarter-finals will see Kilmaley play O’Callaghan’s Mills and Inagh-Kilnamona take on Smith O’Brien’s.Already through to the semi-finals are Scariff-Ogonnelloe-Whitegate and Feakle-Killanena.BALLYEA extended their unbeaten run in the championship by accounting for Clonlara in their seventh-round tie played in Ballyea on Sunday morning. The home side were ahead 0-5 to 0-3 after 10 minutes when full-forward Martin Quigley struck for his first of two goals to give his side a five-point lead, with his second goal coming before half-time, which left the interval score at 2-8 to …

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O’Connor ready for new point-to-point season

POINT-to-point fans will be out in force at Rathcannon, County Limerick on Sunday, where the first meeting of the 2011/12 season is set to take place.The fixture is run under the auspices of the Limerick Foxhounds and will signal the start of an almost nine-month campaign between the flags, which will come to a conclusion over the Whit Bank Holiday weekend next June.The Turf Club has introduced a raft of changes to the rules for the new season, which are designed to improve the standard all around and one of those includes the introduction of a camera to aid the judges at the conclusion of a race.This has been a contentious issue in the past, with the final result determined by the naked eye, courtesy of a group of people standing on a trailer at the finish line. It is now envisaged that a camera will be available at the majority of meetings to aid the officials on duty and …

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Triggs a winner like Roy

NAMED after soccer legend Roy Keane’s famous Labrador, Triggs of Inagh obliged for her Inagh connections in the feature race, the final of the Food Packages A7 525 Stake, at Galway on Saturday night. As the runners went to traps, Kay Lynch’s Moya Mae headed the market at 6/4 and although she was well enough away, she had no answer to the early toe of Triggs of Inagh, owned by Aisling Arthur, on the run towards the opening bend.Exiting the back, Moya Mae was within a length of the Triggs of Inagh but the daughter of Droopy’s Scolari and Cathy of Inagh stayed on well to prevail by a length and a quarter from the fast-finishing Killuran Lady, owned by Gary Cooney from Killuran, Bradford and trained by his father, Donal in 29.62.The top graded event on the card was the A1 graded eighth contest over 525 yards in which the run to the bend was always going to be …

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Senan’s narrowly defeated by Bruff

Bruff    16 St Senan’s   15 ST Senan’s travelled to Bruff for their Transfield Cup encounter with some new additions to last year’s squad. The Clare side was hoping to cause an upset against a strong Bruff side and for much of the game it looked like this might happen.Playing with the benefit of the wind, it was Senan’s who started the stronger and they continually forced the home side backwards but could not break through their strong defensive line to develop clear-cut scoring opportunities.St Senan’s missed a penalty early on before opening their account with a well-worked try by Fergal Lawlor in the 21st minute. The difficult wind dragged the conversion attempt wide.Senan’s were not able to extend this lead, despite mounting some very strong attacks, before Bruff made a rare visit to Senan’s half of the pitch on 28 minutes and won a contentious penalty in front of the posts, allowing them to reduce the deficit to 3-5.It was …

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