The way is clear for the semi-finals of the Clare senior hurling championship, the pairings for which will be decided on Monday evening, after the remaining two quarter finals took place at Cusack Park this Sunday afternoon.
Aaron Cunningham of Wolfe Tones in action against James Noonan of Feakle during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Andy Shanagher of Wolfe Tones in action against Ger Hanrahan of Feakle during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
John Guilfoyle of Wolfe Tones in action against Evan Mc Mahon of Feakle during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Ben O Gorman of Wolfe Tones is red carded by referee J Healy during their quarter final against Feakle in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Aaron Cunningham of Wolfe Tones gets a bang in the head during their game against Feakle in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Sean Costelloe of Wolfe Tones in action against Steven Conway of Feakle during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Barry Loughnane of Wolfe Tones in action against James Noonan and Oisin Donnellan of Feakle during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
The Feakle defence put their heads together before the second half of their quarter final against Wolfe Tones in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Gary Guilfoyle of Feakle in action against Brian O Connell of Wolfe Tones during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Martin Daly of Feakle in action against Jamie Roughan of Wolfe Tones during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Colin Nelson of Feakle in action against Dermot O Rourke of Wolfe Tones during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Colin Nelson of Feakle in action against Gary O Connell of Wolfe Tones during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Sean Costelloe of Wolfe Tones in action against Killian Bane of Feakle during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Brian O Connell of Wolfe Tones in action against Oisin Donnellan of Feakle during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Raymond Bane of Feakle in action against Gary O Connell of Wolfe Tones during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Brian O Connell of Wolfe Tones in action against Henry Hayes of Feakle during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Oisin Donnellan of Feakle in action against John Guilfoyle of Wolfe Tones during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Conn Smyth of Feakle in action against Brian O Connell of Wolfe Tones during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Jamie Roughan of Wolfe Tones in action against Colin Nelson of Feakle during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Dermot O Rourke of Wolfe Tones in action against Martin Daly of Feakle during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Conor Ryan of Cratloe in action against Shane O Donnell of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Conor Ryan of Cratloe in action against David Reidy of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Conor Mc Grath of Cratloe in action against Aaron Fitzgerald of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Conor Mc Grath of Cratloe in action against David Mc Namara of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
David Reidy of Eire Og in action against David Collins of Cratloe during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Kevin Moynihan of Eire Og is stretchered off during their quarter final against Cratloe in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
David Reidy of Eire Og in action against David Collins of Cratloe during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Podge Collins of Cratloe in action against Aidan Mc Grath and Liam Corry of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Cathal Mc Inerney of Cratloe in action against Conor O Halloran of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly..
Sean Collins of Cratloe in action against Barry Nugent of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly..
David Collins of Cratloe in action against Kevin Moynihan of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
David Collins of Cratloe in action against Liam Corry of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
David Collins of Cratloe in action against Liam Corry of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Liam Corry of Eire Og in action against David Collins of Cratloe during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Conor Ryan of Cratloe in action against David Reidy of Eire Og during their quarter final in Cusack Park. Photograph by John Kelly.
Feakle turned in an impressive performance to record a 2-19 to 2-15 win over Wolfe Tones who played the final eighteen minutes with fifteen men after Ben O’Gorman was sent off. Dealt a huge blow in mid week when inter county forward Aron Shanagher was ruled out of the tie, the loss of O’Gorman left the Shannon side without two key players.
That said, it would be wrong not to credit Feakle who played very impressively and picked off some excellent scores in the process. They were 0-11 to 1-6 in front at half time and struck for a goal early in the second half. Wolfe Tones rallied and got to within a point of the East Clare side with nine minutes remaining but Feakle finished strongly and a goal from Oisin Donnellan three minutes from time finally killed off the Wolfe Tones challenge.
The outcome of the last of the quarter finals was in doubt right to the finish. Five unanswered points in the final five minutes saw Cratloe finally kill off the challenge of Eire Og who will wonder for some time how they lost this one. In a second half in which the teams were level on five occasions, Eire Og certainly had great scoring opportunities which weren’t converted and which proved very costly on a day when Shane O’Donnell caused a lot of problems for the Cratloe defence.
The senior football semi-final line up is also complete after Kilmurry-Ibrickane’s 2-19 to 0-9 win over Lissycasey at Cooraclare. Kilmurry will play Cooraclare in next week’s semi-final with the champions of the past two years, Miltown St. Josephs (holders) up against Cratloe
Conor McGrath again top scored for the winners finishing with a tally of 0-9.
Clooney-Quin will play O’Callaghans Mills in the senior B final after they scored a two point win over Sixmilebridge on a final scoreline of 1-15 to 2-10.
The way is also clear for the intermediate championship semi-finals. Broadford and Sixmilebridge had booked their places on Saturday and they are now joined by Tubber and St. Josephs who beat Parteen and Smith O’Briens respectively this Sunday afternoon.
Bodyke and Kilmaley recorded victories in their quarter finals in the junior A championship this Sunday and they join Ogonnelloe, who won on Saturday, in the last four.
