*Fergus Madden puts the sliotar past Paul Madden. Photograph: Ruth Griffin WINNING their opening senior championship encounter for the first time since securing promotion from the intermediate ranks in 2020 heralded a “huge victory” for Scariff.
*Clare’s Chloe Moloney. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography CLARE’S ladies footballers are heading back to Croke Park for the first time since 2016 after defeating the previously unbeaten Antrim in the TG4 All-Ireland intermediate ladies football semi-final.
*Scariff’s Keelan Hartigan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SCARIFF BECAME the first side to put points on the board in the Clare senior hurling championship accounting for St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield on Saturday afternoon.
*Fidelma Marrinan and Chloe Moloney celebrate. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography CLARE’S INTERMEDIATE ladies football side are sixty minutes from Croke Park and are confident of advancing to the decider.
*Clare’s Laurie Ryan. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography MAKING THINGS difficult for themselves appears to be par for the course with Clare’s ladies footballers in 2023, utility woman Laurie Ryan outlined.
*Clare’s Cliodhna Blake. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography CLARE HAVE QUALIFIED for the All-Ireland intermediate ladies football semi-final for the second year in a row.
*Clare intermediate ladies football manager, Wayne Freeman. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography CLARE HAVE a home quarter-final to look forward to on Sunday in the TG4 All-Ireland intermediate ladies football championship, manager Wayne Freeman is bullish they are the best team standing in the competition.
*David Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill LOSING THE Munster senior hurling final for the second year in a row left “a sour taste” for David Fitzgerald and his Clare teammates but it hasn’t diluted their appetite for glory in the county colours.
*Clare captain, Tony Kelly. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FOR THE FIRST time in the Clare colours, Tony Kelly netted a hat-trick as back to back All-Ireland semi-final appearances were achieved.
Laurie Ryan offloads the ball. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A DRAW was enough to secure Clare’s ladies top spot in Group 2 of the TG4 All-Ireland intermediate championship but more importantly guarantees a home quarter-final.
