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Éire Óg 2-16
O’Callaghan’s Mills 1-14
Two goals from corner-forward Thomas Downes paved the way for Éire Óg’s victory over O’Callaghan’s Mills at the Éire Óg grounds on Sunday evening.
The win sealed the Ennis side’s place as the top team in the group and puts them through to the competition semi-final.
The first half was evenly contested and when the half time whistle sounded, the town side were a point ahead, 0-8 to 0-7. The home side edged further ahead in the third quarter with those goals and after this the Mills were always chasing the game.
The visitors had a goal from Aidan O’Gorman but it wasn’t enough to break the Éire Óg grip on proceedings.
Éire Óg: Philly Walsh; Ciaran Hanna, Cormac O’Regan, John Mulcahy; Marc O’Donnell, Fergus Flynn, Kevin Moynihan; Aaron Fitzgerald, Tadhg McNamara; Ronan Keane, Danny Russell, Damian McMahon; Davy O’Halloran, Adrian Walsh, Thomas Downes.
Subs: Niall McMahon for D McMahon; Brian Dolan for A Walsh.
O’Callaghan’s Mills: John Cooney; Michael McGrath, Adrian Donovan, Gerry Cooney; Kevin O’Callaghan, Brian Donnellan, Aidan Fawl; Jonathon Lyons, Niall Donovan; Gary Neville, Adrian Flaherty, Sean O’Gorman; Aidan O’Gorman, Cathal McKeogh, Eoin Pewter.
Subs: Eoin McGrath for A O’Gorman.
Broadford 2-16
Wolfe Tones 2-9
Broadford sealed their place in the semi-final of the Clare Champion cup with this victory over Wolfe Tones on Sunday evening. The winners led by two points at half time, 0-8 to 1-3.
Second half goals from Shane Taylor and substitute Kieran O’Connell helped them seal victory on a day when full forward Gary Leahy scored both goals for the Shannon outfit.
Broadford: Kevin Ryan; Brian Taylor, Alan Kilcoyne, Aidan O’Brien; James Gunning, Ciaran Corcoran, Stephen Gunning; Caolan Cox, Mark Moloney; Niall Moloney, Padraig Hickey, Padraic Taylor; Diarmuid Moloney, Declan Teefy, Shane Taylor.
Subs: Kieran O’Connell for Teefy; Seanie Casey for D. Moloney; Cathal Chaplin for Cox.
Wolfe Tones: Paul Hogan; Barry Loughnane, Brendan Hughes, Jamie Roughan; Gary O’Connell, Bobby McPhillips, Shane Chambers; Kevin McCafferty, Niall Murphy; Mark Regan, Gareth McPhillips, Daithi O’Connell; David Dunne, Gary Leahy, Conal Agnew.
Subs: Ronan Hehir for Dunne; Martin O’Connell for Regan.
Smith O’Brien’s 2-17
Feakle 1-18
Smith O’Brien’s completed their league campaign with a win on Sunday evening but this victory over Feakle wasn’t enough to prevent them from being relegated for the coming season. They will be joined by Feakle who will also make the drop.
On the day, Smith O’Briens showed the more urgency and that proved decisive. They led 1-11 to 0-8 at half time with their first half goal coming from Jonathan Hayes. Feakle, who had 1-12 from Gary Guilfoyle, fought back in the second half and levelled with five minutes remaining but the home side finished strongly. The Killaloe side sealed the win with their second goal from Kevin McCarthy.
Smith O’Brien’s: Mark McInerney; Joe Furlong, Trevor Howard, Brian McInerney; Paul McKeogh, Pa Vaughan, Micheal Ryan; Liam Walsh, Anthony O’Sullivan; Shane O’Brien, Keith Stritch, Dean Sinnott; Kevin Walsh, Jonathon Hayes, Eoghan Ryan.
Subs: Cian Moloney for O’Sullivan (inj), Kevin McCarthy for Hayes.
Feakle: Stevie Moloney; Donal O’Grady, Alan Hogan, Francis O’Grady; Sean O’Grady, Colm Naughton, Ger Hanrahan; Gary Guilfoyle Cillian Bane; Raymond Bane, Kenneth Collins, Oisin Donnellan; Colin Nelson, Cathal Collins, Peter Collins.
Subs: James Noonan for S O’Grady; Henry Purcell for D O’Grady.
St Joseph’s 1-13
Tubber 0-15
St Joseph’s finished in mid table in division 1 B thanks to this one point win over Tubber at the latter’s venue on Sunday evening.
The sides were level three times in the first half before the winners edged into a 0-7 to 0-5 half time lead, five of the points coming from Alan Duggan frees.
The game’s only goal came in the second half when Donal O’Halloran scored after Alan O’Neill’s piledriver was saved by Ronan Taaffe. It was a vital score and helped the Doora-Barefield men to victory.
St Joseph’s: Paul Madden, Brian Collins, Marty O’Regan, Sean Flynn; Eamonn Clohessy, Mark Hallinan, Ivor White; Darragh O’Driscoll, Alan O’Neill; Kevin Dilleen, Alan Duggan, Enda Lyons; Brian Clancy, Kenneth Kennedy, Damian Kennedy.
Subs: Donal O’Halloran for Clancy; Conor Lyons for Clohessy; Cathal O’Sullivan for E. Lyons; Gary Hassett for White; Rory O’Connor for Dilleen.
Tubber: Ronan Taaffe; John O’Connor, Eoin Ruane, Mark Waters; Paul Fogarty, Fergal O’Grady, Francis McCormack; Tommy Lee, Cyril Cunningham; Justin McMahon, Shane O’Connor, Clive Earley; Darragh O’Connor, Eamonn Taaffe, Blain Earley.
Subs: Paddy O’Connor for S O’Connor; Ger Brohan for D O’Connor.
Ballyea 1-11
Kilmaley 0-13
A magnificent point from a 35m line ball with the last puck of the game gave Ballyea a merited one point win over Kilmaley in this division 1 B tie at Kilmaley on Sunday evening.
The win guaranteed Ballyea their place in the division for next season but ended any hope Kilmaley had of progressing to the knock out stage.
It was a win Ballyea deserved as they had created the greater number of chances and were guilty of a lot of wides in the second half.
At the end of an evenly contested first half, Kilmihil led by the minimum margin, 0-7 to 0-6.
An indication of the home side’s concern was the introduction of inter-county panelist Diarmuid McMahon for the second half. the sides were level three times in the third quarter and Kilmaley had just taken a one point lead with ten minutes to go when Eanna McInerney struck for the game’s only goal to put the visitors ahead. Shane O’Neill added a pointed free and three points separated the team as the full time whistle approached.
With time almost up, Kilmaley stormed back and points from Conor Neylon, Brian McMahon and Colin McGuane tied up the game. Then, following a clash involving a number of players on the sideline, Ballyea won a line ball and Gearoid O’Connell pointed to seal victory.
Ballyea: Shane Harkin; James Murphy, Paul Flanagan, Frankie Griffin; Joe Neylon, Cathal Doohan, Paddy O’Connell; Gearoid O’Connell, Brian Murphy; Niall Deasy, Kevin Sheehan, Niall Keane; Eanna McInerney, Shane O’Neill, Francie Nealon.
Kilmaley: Bryan O’Loughlin; Martin O’Connor, Anthony Cahill, Eoin Enright; Noel Casey, Colin Lynch, John Clohessy; Colin McGuane, Enda Finnucane; Jason Pyne, Brian McMahon, John Cabey; Cian Moloney, Conor Neylon, Eoin O’Malley.
Sub: Diarmuid McMahon for Pyne.
