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Kilmaley 2-8  Newmarket 1-9 An injury-time goal gave Kilmaley the silverware in this highly entertaining match played in Clarecastle on Sunday.

Shannon Olympic B captured the second division league cup title at the County grounds on Sunday when they overcame the challenge of Rhine Rovers.

St Senan’s, Shannon 12  Clonmel 11 St Senan’s, Shannon got their Munster Junior League campaign off to a great start with a victory over Clonmel at Slattery Park on Sunday.

Five Clare Taekwon-do instructors have been elevated to fifth Dan black belt, an honour that is rarely bestowed on one instructor in a locality, let alone five in one county.

SIXTY-five boys and girls from across Clare were presented with Clare Community Games All-Star awards at the county organisation’s annual awards banquet on Friday night at the West County Hotel.

Harty CupFOLLOWING the second series of games in the race for this season’s Dr Harty Cup, Munster Colleges Senior Hurling A Championship, Clare sides St Flannan’s and St Caimin’s find themselves needing to win their final group games on November 18 if they are to get to the play-offs.

  Kilmurry Ibrickane 0-12   St Senan’s Kilkee 2-3 Come this weekend, few people outside of Quilty, Mullagh and Coore will recall the 2009 county final with any hint of elation. How could they? The 5,381 people who paid their admittance didn’t leave Cusack Park enthused with positive feelings towards Clare football.At least the second half was significantly more entertaining than the first, which was dire. Neither team played anywhere near their capabilities and both appeared frozen by the occasion. Spurred on by substitute Noel Downes, who added movement and spark to the Kilmurry attack, the two-in-a-row champions, outscored Kilkee by 0-9 to 0-3 in the second period. Having never won back-to-back titles before, Kilmurry won’t dwell too much on the fact that the game was not filled with high quality football. Bizarrely, Kilkee led 2-0 to 0-3 at half time. Three minutes after Mark McCarthy’s fifth minute point for the champions, with Darren Hickey having defended well, Noel O’Shea netted …

While it was more important that he played well, which he did, Enda Coughlan’s acceptance speech was equally impressive. The Kilmurry captain remembered people like Patrick Murrihy and Patrick O’Dwyer and former championship winning captains who have led the club to glory before he did.“It’s a great honour any time to captain your club but I suppose when you win something like this, it makes it all worthwhile, following in great lads footsteps there like the Horse (Moloney), Odran O’Dwyer and Shane Hickey,” he told The Clare Champion after collecting the Jack Daly Cup from Jack Daly. Along with Kilkee’s first half goals the only other source of shock for Coughlan was when he witnessed Paul O’Connor and Peter O’Dwyer clipping over left footed points, late in the second half. “You should see them practising in training. There was someone looking down on the two of them I think but thank God, they went over. They were great scores,” the …