Munster honours for Clare teams

The Munster Community Games finals for events that have a national final in May were held on Saturday, hosted by Cork. All events, except handball, were held at the University of Limerick, with the handball competition at Liscarroll in Cork  and Broadford in Limerick.
Shannon won the U-16 chess title with Robbie Meaney, Kevin Singapurwala, David Hanly, Joseph Cesar, Samual Lenihan, Ross O’Connor and Daragh Danagher in their team.
Derg won the girls’ U-15 handball title with Clodagh Nash, Katie Minogue, Amy Barrett, Fiona Hayes and Aoife Doyle in their team. Clare also won the boys’ U-15 handball title, with Quin-Clooney victorious. Their team members were Fergal Coughlan, Tadhg Shanahan, Barry Loughnane, Luke Keane, Brendan Dolan and Sean Hehir in their line-up.
Cratloe won the indoor girls’ soccer title with Mary O’Connor, Emma Cunningham, Muireann Scanlan, Niamh Murphy, Ciara Murphy-Wright and Laura Chaplin in their line up.
Broadford-Kilbane-Kilmore won the badminton U-15 title with Diarmuid O’Brien, Matthew Troy, Sean Phelan, Jack Dillon, Apryl O’Regan, Siobhán O’Connell, Catherine Donnellan and Niamh Mulqueen in their team.
There were silver medals for the Tulla girls’ U-13 handball team of Aoife Floyd, Bridin Dinan, Niamh O’Brien, Orla O’Brien, Gillian Ryan and Katie Shanahan.
Ennis St John’s indoor soccer girls’ U-15 team won silver and the team members were Laura Browne, Aoife Glavin, Aoife McNamara, Rebecca Windall, Niamh O’Brien, Marese Hayes, Sarah Jane O’Connell and Sinéad Mulcahy.
In boys’ U-16 table tennis, the An Droichead team of David O’Shea, Oisín Malone, Eddie Bourke and Michael O’Shea were silver medal winners, as were the Inch-Connolly-Kilmaley boys’ U-13 team in the same discipline, whose team members were David Kelly, Jack Colleran and Darragh Hickey.
The Shannon U-12 chess team that won silver medals included Hazel Meaney, Joshua Cesar, Jessica Danaher, Thomas Power, Jake O’Malley and Ronan Singapurwala.

Clare finals
The Clare U-11 and U-14 tag rugby finals were held at St Flannan’s College on Sunday.
In the U-11 grade, Clarecastle-Ballyea emerged as winners and their team included Eoin Dinan, Patrick Maxwell, Seán Potter, Aoibhín Donnelly, Rachel Hartigan, Josh Brack, Cian Galvin, Emma O’Brien, Saibh McDermott, Alec Cassley, Jack Diver and Ben Sullivan.
Quin/Clooney came second and their team comprised Donagh O’Sullivan, Conal Egan, David Barbotin, Colm Cassidy, Martin Frain, Tomás O’Cearbheallinn John Conneally, Noah McConway, Cliodhan Ryan, Emer Moynihan, Joanna O’Sullivan and Shane Harrisson.
The bronze medals were won by  Sixmilebridge/Kilmurry B, whose team included Katie Haugh, Luke O’Halloran, Luke Keogh, Will Fitzpatrick, Adam Breen, Oisín Breen, Sean O’Reilly, Matthew Dillon, Áine Sweeny, Ciaran Semahedi and Colin Kelly.
Sixmilebridge/Kilmurry A were fourth and their team included Leah Kelly, Sinéad Cahill, Alex Frost, Ferdia Ó Lionáin, Óran O’Reilly, Cian O’Reilly, Brian Flynn, Adam Fitzpatrick, Evan Murphy, Adam O’Sullivan and Cillian Joyce.
In the U-14 tag rugby, Quin-Clooney were the winners and their team included Kate Taylor, Ellie Rochford, Jennifer O’Neill, Darragh Ryan, David Rochford, Conor O’Brien, Barry Loughnane, Daniel Griffin, Mary Connelly, Eoghan O’Brien, Conor Mahon and Rachel Begg.
Clarecastle/Ballyea won the silver medals with a team that included Doireann Murphy, Ellen Barry, Ciara O’Brien, Emily Barry, Marc McAuliffe, Kevin Hartigan, Killian McDermott, Eamon Breen, Luke MacDermott, Ronan Donnelly, Niall Galvin and Mark Russell.
Cratloe were third with Sean Lynch, Matt Lucey, Kelly Gleeson, Sinéad O’Donnell Stolz, Conor Sullivan, Tom Gleeson, Luke Ryan, Shane Byrne, Mary O’Connor and Eoin Cahill.

Quiz final
St Flannan’s College was the venue on Friday for the Clare Community Games U-14 quiz.
There was a notable increase in the number of teams participating this year. The event was co-ordinated by Tony Bourke from Newmarket and Martin McInerney was the quiz master.
Just one mark separated the top two teams at the end of an exciting competition. Cooraclare-Cree were the winners on 92 points from Carrigaholt-Cross on 91. Killimer-Knockerra were third with An Droichead and Quin-Clooney sharing fourth spot.
The members of the winning team, who now go forward to represent Clare in the National finals in Athlone in May, are Diarmuid Donnellan, Róisín O’Connell, Alannah Mullins, Seán Martyn and Tomás Browne.
Silver medal winners from Carrigaholt-Cross are Chloe Taylor, Rieke McLoughlin, Muireann Keane, Una Murray, Fionn Liddane and Fiona Coghlan.
Killimer-Knockerra won the bronze medals and their team included Pádraig McKeown, Mairéad Grogan, James Browne, Aidan Reynolds
and Cleah Callaghan.
Joint fourth were Quin/Clooney (Ciara O’Reilly, Róisín McAleer, Clara De Saisa and Tiarnan Boyce) and An Droichead (David O’Shea, Niall Moloney, Amy English and Kate Gleeson.

Important dates
Saturday, April 14: U-10 Gaelic football at St Flannan’s.
Sunday April 15: skittles at Kilkishen.
Saturday April 21: cycling at Quin.
Sunday April 22: Futsal at St Flannan’s.
Friday May 4: volleyball at Colaiste Mhuire.
Saturday May 5: rounders at Sixmilebridge.
Friday May 11: girls’ U-12 Gaelic football at Lissycasey.
Sunday May 13: hurling at Gurteen.
Saturday May 19: camogie at St Flannan’s.
Monday May 21: start of outdoor soccer.
May 25-27: national finals, weekend one, at Athlone.
Wednesday May 30: variety at Sixmilebridge.
Saturday June 2: pitch and putt at Clare Road, Ennis.
Wednesday June 20: marathon at Kilmurry McMahon.
Sunday June 24: county athletics finals at Lees Road.
Sunday July 14: Munster finals at UL.
Friday August 17: national finals, weekend two, at Athlone.
Friday August 24: national finals, weekend three at Athlone.