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St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield’s development graph has been on a continuous upward curve over the past decade but despite being the underage queen-pins in that time, are only competing in their first ever county senior ladies football final on Sunday. Indeed, having cut their teeth in the top flight over the past six seasons, the Parish feel that they’ve earned their dues but according to their inspirational defensive anchor Síofra Ní Chonaill, it had to take an unprecedented semi-final victory over perennial finalists Banner Ladies to finally provide the surge of confidence and self belief that they could finally vie for the ultimate prize in Clare ladies football. “If you asked me five or six years ago when we started at senior what was our goal, it wouldn’t have even been to get to a final, it was just to put it up to the Banner. “They have been the standard-bearers for nearly twenty years basically so it has been great …

Senior camogie relegation final St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield 2-9 Sixmilebridge 1-10 There was heartbreak for Sixmilebridge and jubilation for St Joseph’s in equal measure in Clooney on Saturday afternoon. Relegation to Intermediate camogie for the Bridge who in a bygone era won multiple championships as St Joseph’ chasing their first maintained their status and once more are the only Clare club to possess four senior GAA, Camogie and LGFA sides. With the LGFA county final on the horizon for St Joseph’s they did not want a low note to be played in the run up with relegation from senior camogie and set out their stall early with (2-2) in the opening half with Ciara Duggan and Siobhan Flynn scoring (1-1 each). Chloe Morey hit back between the 14th and 18th minutes with (1-2) to keep Sixmilebridge in contact as Olivia Phelan had initiated the scoring for Sixmilebridge after four minutes. Determined tackling by both sets of defenders ensured a low scoring contest as …

Clare Senior Football Championship Quarter-Final St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield v Éire Óg Cusack Park Ennis, Sunday 1pm (Martin Downes, Naomh Eoin) To borrow a phrase from well-known philosopher and former Ireland soccer manager Giovanni Trapattoni ‘Beware the cat. No say the cat is in the sack when you have not the cat in the sack’ would have best summed up last year’s derby reunion between Éire Óg and St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield. After marauding through a host of potential rivals to soar to back-to-back Jack Daly crowns backed by a 13 match winning run and not a single goal conceded in that time, the prospect of a first senior championship showdown with their neighbours in five years just seemed like another notch on their already pockmarked belt for last year’s quarter-final. After all, having relegated the Parish with a 22 point pummelling at the same venue five years previously, Donagh Vaughan’s side admirably returned in 2021 but while their development graph was …

U-13 Division 1 Football Championship Final Lissycasey 1-10 St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield 0-8 Coming into this Division 1 final the teams had played each other twice already in the group stages. On each of those occasions only a solitary point separated the teams as Lissycasey won on their home patch while the Parish exacted revenge in the return fixture. Bearing that in mind it came as no surprise that the teams were deadlocked at three points apiece after the opening half. For Barefield though they will look back at that first thirty and wonder how they weren’t ahead. Dominating possession they moved the ball accurately through the lines using both the hand and the foot pass to great effect. However the Lissycasey defence marshalled by the outstanding Robert Pelczar stood firm. Time and time again he came storming out of defence with the ball and he always used the possession wisely for such a young player. Having the ability to kick …

St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield 1-14 Corofin 1-12 Clare senior football championship, group 2 round 2 While it was far from straight-forward, for the first time in 26 years St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield have won their opening two matches in the county senior football championship following a relieving triumph over Corofin in Cusack Park on Saturday afternoon. That 1998 burst catapulted the then intermediate champions into a first senior semi-final in a century but ironically this time the Parish aren’t even assured of a quarter-final berth. What is certain is that they will be contesting the business end and not the relegation series, a fate that’s not as clearcut for opponents Corofin following back-to-back reverses. The result was merited though as St Joseph’s had led from start to finish and were as much as seven clear by the midway mark and still six in front by the turn of the last quarter. But it would prove an exceedingly tense run-in after Donagh Vaughan’s …

St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield 6-10 Kilmurry Ibrickane 2-13 Senior Ladies’ Football Championship Group A Round 1 It took free kicks to finally separate these sides in the Division 1 League decider but this time it was six timely goals that ensured revenge for St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield but also a major opening boost to what is unquestionably the group of death in this year’s senior ladies football championship in Gurteen on Sunday afternoon. Such a heartbreaking means of losing a final seemed to be channelled into Sunday’s display for the Parish who were never behind at any stage despite facing into the strong conditions in the opening period. Decisive first half goals through Roisin Fowley, Lyndsay Clarke and Aoibhinn McMahon kept wind-assisted Kilmurry Ibrickane at arm’s length in the opening period, with Chloe Moloney inevitably leading the charge with seven points in what was a compelling tussle with fellow county senior Siofra Ní Chonaill at 3-5 to 0-9 by the break The …

St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield 2-14 O’Callaghan’s Mills 0-17 It really doesn’t matter if you lead early in a match or are chasing the game for lengthy spells but what does matter though is who is ahead when it counts the most and that’s at the final whistle. On Sunday morning out in Tulla the men from the Parish epitomised resilience and got their just rewards for never surrendering when grabbing the lead for the only time in the sixtieth minute to practically steal a cracking league final that was played in a hugely sporting manner. It was two second strings but nobody who was in Dr.Daly Park would have guessed that as these two played out a superbly contested battle that ebbed and flowed throughout with the result in doubt right up until referee Pat Healy’s full time whistle. Level on six occasions it took a late late Conor Kearns goal to decide the destination of league honours. One could only …

A quarter of a century ago the hurlers of St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield reached the mountaintop when winning the All-Ireland senior club title in Croke Park, recalls Joe Ó Muircheartaigh who looks back on the finest hours of the ‘Parish’. “I think it was great the way we flew up this morning. There was no hullabaloo of coming up last night and meeting people beforehand. We just came into Croke Park, met nobody and then went out and did the job. We can meet everyone now with the cup.” Lorcan Hassett, 17 March 1999 THE CARPARK in front of the old Grove bar in Roslevan that’s long since been developed is where they met everyone with the Tommy Moore Cup – the back of an articulated truck was their bandstand, as one by one they were introduced. The Grove, which in those days of a more relaxed interpretation of the licensing laws had a ‘Live at Three’ moniker lived up to …