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Munster Senior Club Camogie Championship Final Truagh-Clonlara (Clare) 1-9 – Gailltír (Waterford) 1-9 In the 59th minute of without doubt thee most physical camogie contest in recent memory Gailltír free taker Emma Fitzgerald levelled the tie for only the second time and another day out seemed a virtual certainty. The Clare champions didn’t adhere to the script though with the securing of possession from the subsequent restart leading to the correct awarding of a free. Up stepped sharpshooter Aine O’Loughlin and with ice in her veins she nailed the free in the first of the three additional minutes that referee Andy Larkin had just signalled for. One knew though that the Waterford champions would get at least one opportunity to level the tie. What one didn’t know is that they would be given double the allocated time to convert that opportunity. In fairness to the Cork official he had just presided over an absolute war of attrition with hooks, blocks, …

2023 All Ireland Junior winner Sinead Hogg is a mainstay at the heart of the Clon defence and after a monumental battle with Eimear Bourke and Cait Devane she is ready to push on and claim the biggest camogie prize in Munster. ” Today wasn’t easy and the body is sore. It was a serious battle and in fairness to both teams it was a war of attrition. We had to just try and stay in the game at different stages because their six forwards are unbelievable players and can hurt you in the blink of an eye. It’s great to have that half back line in front of you cutting out the supply which makes it a bit easier for us in the full back line though and I think we did quite well. We were fully focused on delivering not only a performance but delivering a result and thankfully we did both.” Sinead feels as a group they have …

Former coach to the Clare Senior set up and in his fourth year training his beloved Truagh-Clonlara Ryan Morris feels like he’s dreaming but admits this was their ultimate objective. ” I feel like I’m in a dream that I don’t want to wake up from. To see how far we’ve come from winning an Intermediate title to claiming a first ever McMahon Cup, going back to back and now a Munster final. It’s magical, it truly is. Last year we enjoyed celebrating after the County championship and the buzz around the place was incredible. The whole day out against Sarsfields was also really special but in truth we let the day be our focus and not the game itself. It wasn’t until we sat down to plan for this year that we felt the pain of that defeat. We set in motion a plan to retain our crown and have another crack at Munster but to do so we …

Inagh-Kilnamona midfielder and joint captain, Laura Rynne is buzzing at the thought of County final day and feels there won’t be anything between the teams with a rub of the green swinging it either way. “As a panel we are delighted to be back in a final. It’s definitely been a while coming and at times we did wonder would we get there again. We’ve lost the last three semi-finals and that hurts. Last year we lost in extra time and to be honest it was really tough then to see Truagh-Clonlara go on and win it. It did show us how close we were and gave us that extra motivation to work harder this year to try get back to this stage.” Her team seemed to get better as the year progressed with Laura referencing a couple of group game battles as being crucial to their development. “In our opening game we had a real tough battle with Feakle-Killanena …

2023 was really a year to remember for the people of Clonlara with the securing of Canon Hamilton and a first ever Senior Camogie title that was won in dramatic fashion making it a very short winter in East Clare. After the hurlers exited at the quarter-final stage this year the ladies of Truagh-Clonlara were determined to give their huge following something to shout about. Joint captains, Ellen Horgan and  Laura Foley feel that there is a massive connect amongst all the players male and female and all the supporters and a victory would be for the whole community. Ellen Horgan (EH) – ” Covid definitely bonded us all together like nothing ever before. If the was one good thing to come out of the pandemic it was that. We were all at home in the Parish and nobody was going outside their 5 km. We just all helped each other through it and everybody was doing whatever they could to …

After last year’s semi-final heartbreak manager Eugene Foudy is absolutely thrilled to see his side get back to the promised land of county final day but feels they will enter the game as outsiders. “Before the championship began Truagh-Clonlara were most people’s favourites and that hasn’t changed. They’ll still be favourites and that’s not me just talking up the opposition. You’d have to acknowledge that they’ll start as favourites simply because it’s been four years since we’ve been at this stage. “Truagh have played in the last three county finals, four if you include the 2021 replay so they’ll have a massive edge in terms of experience of the biggest day.” After hearing his thoughts for a few minutes I ask him in jest has his side any hope at all. The Clare Senior selector and coach laughs and says he’ll try come up with some sort of plan. “We’ve a lot of young players who will be playing in …

Clare Senior Camogie Championship Final Inagh-Kilnamona v Truagh Clonlara at Dr. Daly Park Tulla, Saturday 3.30pm (Andy McMahon, Cratloe) For the first time since 2020, Clare camogie’s marquee decider will be contested by a new pairing after the titantic three-in-a-row final series between Truagh Clonlara and Scariff-Ogonnelloe was finally halted by their clash at the penultimate stage. Having fought so hard to finally get their hands on the McMahon Cup, Truagh will be determined to make up for lost time and create further history on Saturday as twelve months on from sealing their first senior crown, they look to retain it in Tulla. Standing obtrusively in their path are an Inagh-Kilnamona side seeking to wrestle back control as having soared to four titles in five seasons by the turn of the decade, they have struggled ever since to even get back to a final. Of course, there have been close calls as realistically they should have beaten Scariff-Ogonnelloe in the …

Getting to a final is one thing, winning one is a completely different challenge as Truagh-Clonlara found to their cost last November. Granted, having relentlessly strived to make the breakthrough to their first ever senior decider, the squad actually got to contest two in the space of a fortnight but that was scant consolation having come out on the wrong side of the replay. The mindset is different this time around though according to joint-captain Michelle Powell whose sterling performances for the Clare junior side subsequently earned her a prestigious Soaring Star nomination in the last few days. “Last year was such a novelty. I mean there’s no comparison between winning the semi-final this year because last year we were just so delighted to get past the heartache of almost five or six semi-finals in a row that we just couldn’t get over the line on. “This time when we won the semi-final, don’t get me wrong, we were delighted …