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Hermitage A  4   Bridge Celtic A  2There were goals aplenty at last weekend’s match between Hermitage and Bridge Celtic A at the Fairgreen. On target for Hermitage were Eddie Killeen, Scott Hennessy from the penalty spot, Eoin Killeen and Gerry Dullaghan. Bridge Celtic’s goals came from Paul McEvoy and Rob Cassidy.

Inch Crusaders  2   Kilmaley United  1 INCH Crusaders had a good victory over local rivals Kilmaley at Lees Road on Sunday.

St Pat’s  3   Treaty Celtic  2 ST Pat’s had a narrow win over Treaty Celtic at home.

THE Clare Secondary Schools Cross Country Championships were held on the lands of Maureen and Thomas McGuire Mullagh last week and attracted a fine turnout.

FROM the Clare point of view, all-age cups wins for Paddy Marrrian of Miltown Malbay and Paddy Conlon from Cree were the highlights of a splendid Killimer-Kilrush coursing meeting at Aylervarroo last weekend. It was the first time ever that both cups stayed in Clare.

The people of Kilkee and the peninsula villages owe West Clare Gaels for taking their minds off how they, and the rest of the country, are going to pay off the national debt.

Since the mid-1990s Majella Griffin has steadfastly fired hundreds of annual scores for club and county.

The pull of playing for her club has detained Maria Kelly in Ireland for months longer than she had foreseen. The West Clare Gaels midfielder, who returned from Australia last July, is due to head back down under whenever the Gaels ’10 odyssey wraps.