Favourites Éire Óg well in control

Éire Óg 1-18  Ogonnelloe 0-5

 

Éire Óg scored a comprehensive win over Ogonnelloe in the opening round of the intermediate championship at Dr Daly Park in Tulla on Sunday.
The Ennis side played against the wind in the first half and were on the road to victory at half-time when they held a three-point lead, 0-7 to 0-4.
They held the upperhand throughout the second half but had to wait until just before the full-time whistle for their goal, which came from substitute John Lawlor.
Danny Russell with eight and Davy O’Halloran, with four, were the Ennis side’s main point scorers on the day. Veteran John McKenna scored three points for the East Clare side and Kieran Forde got the other two.
A couple of weeks ago the sides met in the league and the Ennis outfit were also comprehensive winners on that occasion.

Éire Óg: Kevin Brennan; Cathal Whelan, Marc O’Donnell, Kevin Halley; Tadhg McNamara, Fergus Flynn, Kevin Moynihan; Mark Fitzgerald, Noel Whelan; Danny Russell, Adrian Walsh, Ronan Keane; David O’Halloran, Barry Nugent, Niall Daly.
Subs: John Lawlor for Nugent (inj), Tom Downes for Daly (inj) and Ronan Cooney for Halley.
Ogonnelloe: Tomás McKenna; Eoin Sheedy, Michael Costello, John O’Brien; Pascal Sheedy, Patrick Barton, Thomas Condon; Barry Kiely, Michael N Bugler; Paul Healy, Kieran Forde, Ozer McMahon; Robert Dreelin, John McKenna, Peter English.
Subs: Eoin Collins for English, Henry Mooney for Dreelin and Patrick Mooney for Healy.

Feakle 1-20  Meelick 1-12

FEAKLE bounced back to winning ways and got their championship campaign off to a winning start when they accounted for Meelick at windswept Shannon on Sunday.
Playing with the aid of the wind in the first half, Feakle laid the foundations for the win when they built up a 1-14 to 0-5 lead, the goal coming from Cillian Bane.
Helped by a goal from substitute Greg Daly, the South-East Clare side hit back strongly in the second half but a better balanced Feakle held firm and when the final whistle sounded, they were deserving winners.
Gary Guilfoyle was the winners’ top scorer with a dozen points to his credit. Sean O’Connor was Meelick’s top scorer with 0-6.

Feakle: Eibhear Quilligan; Peter Collins, Colm Naughton, Patrick Daly; Francis O’Grady, Alan Hogan, Padraic Hogan; Ger Hanrahan, Henry Hayes; Raymond Bane, Colin Nelson, Cillian Bane; Stephen Moloney, Gary Guilfoyle, Cathal Collins.
Subs: Ronan McGuinness for S Moloney, Enda Murray for A Hogan and Tom Moroney for C Collins.
Meelick: James Duffy; Kieran Keane, Richard O’Grady, Sean Cooney; Bobby Sherlock, Damian Moloney, Adam Sherlock; Eanna Mulvihill, William O’Shaughnessy; Graham Callinan, Sean O’Connor, Dara Quinn; Alan Markham, Oisin Hickey, Andrew White.
Subs: Donal Buggy for B Sherlock, Colm Ryan for White, Ger Markham for G Callinan and Greg Daly for A Markham.

Corofin 2-11  Ennistymon 1-6

COROFIN had to pull out all the stops to overcome North Clare neighbours Ennistymon in their first-round tie at Inagh on Sunday.
Underdogs Ennistymon played against the breeze in the opening half and succeeded in doing very well. Corofin’s goal came just before half-time from Stephen Heagney and helped the winners to lead by three points at half-time when the score was 1-6 to 1-3. The Ennistymon goal came from Robbie McDonagh.
They stepped up their performance on the resumption, while Ennistymon tired a little in the closing stages.
Stephen Heagney was the winners’ top scorer with 1-6 to his credit, while his brother Kevin contributed 1-1. Points also came from Damian Ryan and Neil Killeen on a day when the winners were without the services of the injured Gerry Quinn. Cathal Malone accounted for all of Ennistymon’s points.

Corofin: Patrick Burke; Martin Tierney, Luke O’Loughlin, Donnacda Kelleher; Darren Malone, Darragh Shannon, Damian Ryan; Matthew Shannon, Fionn Clancy; Neil Killeen, Declan Lee, Kevin Heagney; Stephen Heagney, Eamonn Malone, Killian Neylon.
Subs: Keith O’Loughlin for Kelleher (inj) and Killian Malone for M Shannon.
Ennistymon: Cathal McDonagh; Michael Devitt, Kevin Scales, Brendan Hogan; Liam O’Driscoll, Paudie Kelleher, Sean O’Driscoll; Caoimhín Fahy, Tadhg Malone; Cathal Malone, Brian McDonagh, Padraig Brennan; Tommy Hogan, Michael Organ, Robbie McDonagh.
Subs: Enda Slattery for L O’Driscoll.