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Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship Final Back at the helm this year for another stint Pat Taaffe is certainly the man that knows how to take Tubber into county finals. Back to back final defeats in 2017 and 2018 still haunt the man who stepped down after a quarter final loss to Barefield in 2019 with the Tubber manager joking he’d rather win one than contest loads of finals. “I’ve had enough of losing finals to be honest about it. I’d rather get to one and win it then to get to loads and lose” he laughs ” but joking aside the reality is we are massive underdogs going into this final too and everybody expects us to lose but everybody will know that we as we always do in Tubber will battle right to the death and sure one never knows where that will take us.” There’s a massive buzz around the place and everybody is looking forward to Cusack …

Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship Final Wolfe Tones manager Barry Keane is in his first year at the helm and things couldn’t have gone any better. Just sixty minutes away from a return to Senior Barry remembers the moment he decided to become the boss. “Sitting in the car in Newmarket last year after the loss to Doora/Barefield was a real bleak moment. I just couldn’t believe that we were gone down and a lot of people were hurt over it. For the next few weeks there was this voice niggling away at me saying you have to go back in. You have to help. I had spent my whole life coaching but I’d never managed so I had a real long chat with myself and decided if I was to do it I would have to surround myself with quality people. Alan Cunningham was the first person I reached out to. We negotiated it over a game of golf and …

Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship Final Tubber v Wolfe Tones at Cusack Park Ennis, Saturday 3.30pm (Gus Callaghan, Feakle) A long overdue championship reunion between Tubber and Wolfe Tones for the first time in 12 years couldn’t have been any better timed as both crave some much-needed silverware. Indeed, that 0-19 to 1-09 Senior B victory in Clarecastle in 2012 was a key result in Tubber’s last championship silverware but while the Senior and Junior B double that year promised a bright horizon, within three years both sides would have been dumped down to intermediate. Ironically, having survived the five team culling of 2014 that included the Shannon side, Tubber actually dropped the following season, with the Tones replacing them following an immediate senior redemption. Bouncing back at the first attempt has clearly been the goal from the outset this time around too and aside from a real scare against Parteen-Meelick at the last eight stage, everything has gone exactly to …