Division 1B leaders drop points

LEADERS Wolfe Tones and Kilmaley both dropped points in Round 4of the Division 1B League at the weekend. The Tones suffered their first defeat of the campaign when they failed to match a lively Smith O’Brien’s outfit in a game played at Shannon on Thursday evening.
On Sunday evening, Broadford reopened their pitch, Glenomra Park, having carried out improvements and they marked the occasion with an impressive performance against Kilmaley which ended in a draw.

Smith O’Brien’s 2-13   Wolfe Tones 1-11

SMITH O’Brien’s collected their first points of this season’s Clare Champion Cup (Division 1B) when they defeated hitherto unbeaten Wolfe Tones at Shannon on Thursday evening. This was the Killaloe side’s best performance of the campaign to date and their victory was deserved.
Helped by a goal from Dean Sinnott, the winners led at the break on a score of 1-6 to 0-6. They went onto stretch their advantage to seven points in the third quarter before Wolfe Tones hit their best spell and fought back to level helped by goals from David Reidy and Daithi O’Connell.
Smith O’Brien’s responded with a goal from Kevin Walsh with five minutes remaining and while the Tones tried to get back, they could only manage a point in the remaining time.
The winners’ goalie Mark McInerney excelled on the evening, while others to impress were Trevor Howard, Seamus Gleeson, Micheál Ryan and Shane O’Brien.

Smith O’Brien’s: Mark McInerney Kevin McEvoy, Seamus Gleeson, Brian McInerney; David Gough, Pa Vaughan, Trevor Howard; Cian Moloney, Micheál Ryan; Anthony O’Sullivan, Shane O’Brien, Liam Walsh; Kevin Walsh, Keith Sritch, Dean Sinnott.
Sub: Noel McInerney for Moloney.
Wolfe Tones: Paul Hogan; Joe McGauley, Brendan Hughes Barry Loughnane; Jamie Roughan, Brian O’Connell, Gary O’Connell; Kevin McCafferty, David Reidy; Shane Chambers, Bobby McPhillips, John Guilfoyle; Gary Leahy, Alan Hehir, Daithi O’Connell.
Subs: Niall Murphy for Chambers; Johnnie Bridges for Guilfoyle.

Kilmaley 1-15   Broadford 1-15

THE meeting of Kilmaley and Broadford at the latter’s well-appointed venue, proved an entertaining affair on Sunday evening.
Both sides will feel they missed opportunities over the hour but the home side probably missed the better chances.
They certainly had the best player on view in Cathal Chaplin, who ruled the midfield exchanges throughout.
They started well and raced into an 0-5 to 0-1 lead in the first quarter. Kilmaley had the better of the last 10 minutes of this half and when Jim Hickey sounded the short whistle, there was just a point between them with Broadford, having had the aid of the breeze, ahead on a score of 0-6 to 0-5.
The teams were level four minutes into the second half when the visitors got a great boost in the form of a Diarmuid McMahon goal. It was a fortunate score as his effort from 60m bounced past Cian O’Brien in the Broadford goal.
The home side, to their credit, hit back and a superb overhead strike from Pádraig Hickey found the net and brought them to within a point of the visitors. Kilmaley went four clear again as the three-quarter stage approached and they were three ahead with seven minutes remaining.
Two from Cathal Chaplin and one from Pádraig Hickey had the teams level with three minutes to play before substitute Declan Teefy put the home side in front. Kilmaley had the final say when midfielder Ken Kennedy hit his 12th point of the evening to tie up the teams for the third and final time.

Broadford: Cian O’Brien; James Gunning, Alan Kilcoyne, Brian Taylor; Peter O’Brien, Aonghus O’Brien, Stephen Gunning; Cathal Chaplin (0-6), Caolan Cox; Pádraig Hickey (1-5), Ciarán Corcoran, Padraic Taylor (0-1); Donal Whelan (0-1), Niall Moloney, Mark Moloney (0-1).
Subs: Diarmuid Moloney for N Moloney; Declan Teefy (0-1) for Corcoran; John Corcoran for Whelan.
Kilmaley: Kieran Dillon; Martin O’Connor, Anthony Cahill, Sean Talty; Colin Lynch, Noel Casey, John Clohessy; Kenneth Kennedy (0-12), Eoin O’Malley; Daire Keane (0-1), Diarmuid McMahon (1-1), Michael O’Neill (0-1); Niall McGuane, Conor Neylon, Pádraig Talty.
Subs: Eoin Enright for O’Malley; Enda Finnucane for McGuane.

Éire Óg 3-11   Tubber 1-15

ÉIRE Óg led by seven points at half-time in this tie on Monday and they stretched this to nine early in the second half before the home side fought back to go two points clear.
Two Éire Óg goals from Davy O’Halloran and Niall McMahon in the space of a minute turned the tie back in the town side’s favour and they went on to record victory and keep their promotion homes very much alive. Thomas Downes scored the winners’ first-half goal, while the majority of their points came from Danny Russell and O’Halloran. Eamonn Taaffe was the scorer of the Tubber goal.

Éire Óg: Philip Walsh; Ronan Cooney, Aaron Fitzgerald, Ciarán Hanna; Marc O’Donnell, Fergus Flynn, Kevin Moynihan; Tadhg McNamara, Mark Fitzgerald; Ronan Keane, Danny Russell, Niall McMahon; Davy O’Halloran, Adrian Walsh, Thomas Downes.
Sub: Brian Dolan for Flynn (inj).
Tubber: Ronan Taaffe; Mark Waters, Eoin Ruane, John O’Connor; Patrick O’Connor, Conor Earley, Mark Earley; Cyril Cunningham, Fergal O’Grady; Tommy Lee, Shane O’Connor, Clive Earley; Blain Earley, Justin McMahon, Darragh O’Connor.
Subs: Eamonn Taaffe for McMahon; Lorcan O’Grady for Cunningham.

St Joseph’s 4-13   Feakle 4-6

A HAT-trick of goals from Jarlath Colleran helped St Joseph’s to this win over Feakle at the East Clare club’s venue on Monday.
Feakle had the better of the first-half exchanges and they led at half-time on a score of 3-2 to 1-5. However, the visitors got control after the break and proved the stronger side in the second half.
Colleran was their top scorer with 3-4, while their other goal came from Greg Lyons.
Feakle’s goalscorers were Kenneth and Cathal Collins, Justin Nelson and Oisín Donnellan, while Gary Guilfoyle contributed all but one of their points.

St Joseph’s: Mikey Roseingrave; Brian Collins, Mark Hallinan, Marty O’Regan; Conor Lyons, Alan O’Neill, Ivor White; Darragh O’Driscoll, Gary Hassett; Kevin Dilleen, Greg Lyons, Leo Duggan; Alan Duggan, Ken Kennedy, Jarlath Colleran.
Subs: Eamonn Clohessy for A Duggan; Donal O’Halloran for Clohessy.
Feakle: Stevie Moloney; Patrick Daly, Alan Hogan, Francis O’Grady; James Noonan, Ger Hanrahan, Eoin Tuohy; Gary Guilfoyle, Shane McGrath; Kenneth Collins, Tom Moroney, Raymond Bane; Justin Nelson, Cathal Collins, Cillian Bane.
Subs: Peter Collins for Daly; Oisín Donnellan for Moroney.

O’Callaghan’s Mills 3-19   Ballyea 0-21

A STRONG first-half display helped O’Callaghan’s Mills defeat Ballyea in this Division 1B tie in Ballyea on Monday. Goals from Adrian Flaherty and James McMahon helped them to a 2-11 to 0-10 lead at the interval. The home side fought back well in the second period with some excellent scores from Tony Kelly, Gearóid O’Connell and Francie O’Reilly, which cut the deficit to four points but a third goal from the visitors from Cathal McKeogh with eight minutes to go put the game beyond the reach of a gallant Ballyea side.

O’Callaghan’s Mills: John Cooney; Michael McGrath, Conor Cooney, Gerry Cooney; Ger Frost, Bryan Donnellan, Aidan Fawl; Pat Donnellan, Jonathon Lyons; Gary Neville, Adrian Donovan, Eoin Pewter; Cathal McKeogh, Adrian Flaherty, James McMahon.
Subs: Kevin O’Callaghan for Frost; Sean O’Gorman for Fawl (inj); James McGrath for P Donnellan; Conor Cooney (Ermhill) for Neville; Eoin McInerney for McMahon.
Ballyea: Shane O’Neill, Frankie Griffin, Kevin Sheehan, David Sheehan, Jack Browne, Paddy O’Connell, Barry Coffey, Gearóid O’Connell (0-3), Paul Flanagan, Francie O’Reilly (0-5), Niall Keane (0-1), Alan Hehir (0-1), Eanna McInerney, Rory Longe, Tony Kelly (0-11, 3f, 2 65’).
Subs: Aaron Nugent for Kevin Sheehan (inj) Shane Harkin for Rory Longe.