Sports

The line-up for the semi-finals of the Clare intermediate Hurling Championship was finalised on Saturday when the final round of games in the league series were played.

Kilkishen 3-5 Éire Óg 1-5 A good start ensured Kilkishen came away with the points in the second round of the Junior Camogie Championship. Hosts Kilkishen had a dream start with a goal after five minutes.

Newmarket-on-Fergus 2-9 St Joseph’s 1-0 Newmarket-on-Fergus edged a step closer to retaining the Clare Champion U-16A Camogie title in Éire Óg on Wednesday evening when they had a 12-point win over St Joseph’s.

Clonlara 3-10 Broadford 2-8 Clonlara won the U-16B hurling title thanks to a great first-half display, during which they outscored their opponents 3-8 to 0-4.

Sixmilebridge 4-7 Clarecastle 0-15 Four goals from Brian Corry helped the ‘Bridge reach their fifth consecutive U-16A final when they beat Clarecastle on Sunday at Newmarket. Starting the game at midfield, it was a switch to the full-forward line that really ignited the youngster.

Wolfe Tones 2-12 Cooraclare 1-5 Wolfe Tones added the U-14 Division 1 football title to the U-14 hurling and Féile football and hurling titles when they defeated Cooraclare in the final in Kilmihil on Saturday.

Efforts by St Joseph’s GAA Club to reconnect with people in the community have been lauded by presidential candidate, Sean Gallagher.

THE new Munster Colleges GAA season will get underway next week when the opening games in the race for the Dean Ryan title, (Junior A hurling), Corn an Chuinneanaigh (Junior B) and Corn Iognaid Rís (Junior C) will take place.