First league points for Ogonnelloe

Ogonnelloe 4-9   Ennistymon 1-12
Ogonnelloe collected their first points in this year’s Clare Champion Cup with a six-point victory over Ennistymon at Ogonnelloe on Monday. Ennistymon had two points on the scoreboard inside the opening few minutes but two John McKenna points had the teams level before Kieran Forde struck for the opening goal of the game.
Paul Healy then netted two goals for the home side before half time as Ogonnelloe led 3-3 to 0-4 at the interval. A Cathal Malone penalty early in the second half, as well as two points from play, brought Ennistymon back into contention but Ogonnelloe replied with 1-3 from John McKenna, along with a point from Peter English and a huge effort from Patrick Barton to give them the breathing space they required to close out the game. John McKenna and Cathal Malone were very impressive on the day and they each contributed 1-7 to their side’s total.

Ogonnelloe: Tomás McKenna; John O’Brien, Michael Costelloe, Eoin Sheedy; Pascal Sheedy, Patrick Barton, Tomas Condon; Ozer MacMahon, Barry Kiely; Peter English, Henry Mooney, Kieran Forde; Paul Healy, John McKenna, Patrick Mooney.
Subs; Rory Skelly for Paul Healy and Joseph Mooney for Patrick Mooney.
Ennistymon: Cathal McDonagh; Michael Devitt, Sean Driscoll, Brendan Hogan; Martin Greene, Brian McDonagh, Liam Driscoll; Pádraig Kelleher, Pádraig Brennan; Michael Organ, Cathal Malone, Enda Slattery; Tadhg Malone, Robbie McDonagh, Tommy Hogan.

Ruan 4-16   Parteen 2-11
Ruan moved a step closer to promotion from Division 2B when they recorded a big win over Parteen at the South Clare club’s venue last Saturday.
The winners had marginally the better of the first-half exchanges and they led by four points at half-time. They continued to hold a slight edge in the second half before finishing strongly to a merited win. The final scoreline, however, was somewhat flattering in Ruan’s favour. Six minutes from the end they led by just a point. Aidan Lynch scored 2-3 while Sean Cullinan and Colin Donoghue were the other goalscorers. Mark Boland and Colm Quinn from a penalty, were the Parteen goal scorers.

Ruan: Pakie Roughan; Gary Bell, Niall O’Connor, Leon Quirke; Damian Brohan, Jonathon Clohessy, Dara Roughan; Tadhg Hanrahan, Killian Ryan; Aidan Lynch, Owen Hanrahan, Caimin Howard; John Punch, Sean Cullinan, Brendan Lyons.
Subs: Alan Bell for Howard and Colin Donoghue for Punch.
Parteen: Alan Murnane; David O’Sullivan, Paul O’Dwyer, Mark Cunningham; Cian McCarthy, Colm Quinn, Colm O’Connell; Joe O’Connor, Dara Yelverton; Noel Bridgeman, Ronan Conlon, Patrick Campion; David Small, Mark Boland, Padraic O’Connor.
Subs: Ritchie Mullane for McCarthy; Ivan Conway for Small and Sean Quinn for M Boland.

Éire Óg 1-15   Killanena 1-11
Éire Óg were made battle all the way for victory in their tie with Killanena at the East Clare club’s venue on Monday.
Helped by a goal from John Lawlor, the winners led at half-time on a score of 1-9 to 0-8 on a day when the sides were level on five occasions.
Mark Flaherty scored the home side’s goal from a 20m free and John Noonan, who scored four points, Enda Collins and Alan McNamara also did well for Killanena.

Éire Óg: Philip Walsh; Ciarán Whelan, Cormac O’Regan, Kevin Hally; Tadhg McNamara, Noel Whelan, Ronan Cooney; Kevin Moynihan, Mark Fitzgerald; Ronan Keane, Adrian Walsh, John Lawlor; David O’Halloran, Barry Nugent, Micheál Brennan.
Subs: Dean Ryan for Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald for Cooney.
Killanena: David Noone; Barry Noone, Joe Clancy, Pat Noone; Shane Moroney, Enda Collins, Alan McNamara; Martin Glynn, Noel Sheedy; John Noonan, Mark Flaherty, Declan Noonan; Colin McNamara, Stephen McMahon, Pádraig Brady.
Subs: Owen McMahon for S McMahon and Michael Noonan for D Noonan.