More gold for Clare at national finals

CLARE’S outstanding record at the national Community Games Finals was extended last weekend when competitors won gold in pitch and putt, judo and swimming, as well as silver in judo.
Clare had 98 competitors at last weekend’s finals and they brought home a total of 78 awards, nine gold, three silver, 15 bronze and 51 fourth-place medals. All five competitors in judo returned with medals.
The standard in the swimming was extremely high but most of the Clare competitors qualified for the semi-finals. Two, Eoin Rouine and Rory McEvoy, won gold.
In cycling, all four competitors took to the track in very wet conditions and three of them qualified for finals. Last year’s gold medallist, Lauren McConway, won a silver on this occasion, while Quin-Clooney clubmate, Cathal Browne won a fourth-place award.
In the variety final on Saturday evening, Sixmilebridge-Kilmurry won a fourth-place award, while in gymnastics, Peter Stack from Clarecastle-Ballyea won a bronze medal, his first national award in seven years competing at the finals.

Results
Gold: Eoin Rouine (Ennistymon-Lahinch-Liscannor) in U-10 freestyle swimming; Rory McEvoy (Doora-Barefield) in U-14 backstroke swimming; Róisín Cahill (Doora-Barefield) in judo up to 25kg; Ciara Cahill (Doora-Barefield) in judo up to 50kg; Doora-Barefield pitch and putt team of Colm Devine, Niall Keane, Cathal Clune, Danny Mungovan and Sean Myatt.
Silver: Tara Walsh (Ennis St John’s) in judo up to 30kg; Nicki Hardiman (Doora-Barefield) in judo up to 25kg; Ikem Ugwuery (Ennis St John’s) in judo up to 45kg.
Bronze: Lauren McConway (Quin-Clooney) in cycling U-14; Hugh McMahon (Doora-Barefield) in swimming, U-14 freestyle; Dianne Carmody (Doora-Barefield) in gymnastics U-10; Eleanor O’Loughlin (Ennistymon-Lahinch-Liscannor) in gymnastics U-12; Hugo Kinahan (Cratloe) in gymnastics U-10; Peter Stack (Clarecastle-Ballyea) in gymnastics U-14; Ennis St John’s girls’ pitch and putt team of Hannah Bredin, Aisling Maher, Rachel Coote, Emma Neylon and Elana Bradley; Doora-Barefield U-16 swimming squad of Rory McEvoy, Lorcan Casey, Patrick Cooney and Hugh McMahon.
Fourth: Cathal Browne (Quin-Clooney) in cycling U-12; Dara Gleeson (Ennis St John’s) in swimming U-14 butterfly; Laura Culliney (Doora-Barefield) in gymnastics U-16; Ennistymon-Lahinch-Liscannor U-13 swimming squad of Aoibhín O’Sullivan, Eva Guinnane, Isobel Coleman, Lea Gosseay and Kate Gilna; Doora-Barefield U-16 swimming squad of Sarah O’Reilly, Orlaith O’Neill, Hannah O’Brien, Eimear McGrath and Jane Taylor; Sixmilebridge-Kilmurry variety U-16 group of James Connor, Jennifer Gaule, Claire Corbett, Caroline Hogan, Shane Hayes, Eimear McDermott, Kim Stephen, Jenny Flynn, Dervla Murray, Jessica Wilmot, Leanne Gaule, Sarah Collins and Slaine Carey; Ennis St John’s U-12 boys’ soccer team of Jack Connolly, Frank Roche, Ikey Ugwuery, Jesse Onejekwe, Darren O’Brien, Kevin O’Connor, Josh Costin, Conor McDaid, Philip Talty, Robbie Woods, Ronan Lanagan, Fionn Nolan, Rory Brennan, Sam Ogundare and Stephen Kennedy; Doora-Barefield girls’ U-16 volleyball team of Kate Norton, Cliodhna Fanning, Gabrielle Da Silva, Jessica O’Connor, Caoimhe Feerick, Meghan Fitzgerald, Claire Purcell, Niamh Courtney, Sarah Jane O’Connell and Jenny Hansbury.