*Inagh/Kilnamona’s Eoghan Foudy is stopped by the Feakle trio of Killian Bane, Owen McGann and Patrick Daly. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill.
COUNTY champions Feakle have recorded their first win of 2025 with Clarecastle and Newmarket-on-Fergus also getting off the mark in the Clare Cup.
Seven games in round 3 in the willwego.com Clare cup (senior hurling league) were played at the weekend when Feakle, Clarecastle and Newmarket-on-Fergus collected their first wins while St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield and Corofin suffered their first defeats of the campaign.
High scoring was the order of the day in most games with all teams lining out without players who are involved with Clare teams in the Munster under 20 and senior inter county championships.
Thirteen for Shane as Feakle get first win
Feakle 0-23
Inagh-Kilnamona 0-21
Venue: Feakle
In this high scoring tie at Feakle on Saturday afternoon the sides were level on no less that eleven occasions, eight of which were in the opening half at the end of which the visitors were one ahead, 0-12 to 0-11.
The respective free takers, Shane McGrath for the home side and Keelan Guyler, each scored six points in that first half.
Guyler didn’t return for the second half due to injury and Conner Hegarty took over the freetaking duties.
Points were exchanged six times in the opening quarter before the visitors opened a two point lead but the home side were back on terms five minutes from the interval, Martin Daly pointing after making a superb catch.
When Inagh/Kilnamna landed three points in as many minutes after the resumption of play to go four clear it looked like they might pull away but Feakle responded impressively with two from Shane McGrath and one from Owen McGann.
(All photographs by Gerard O’Neill)
The teams then exchanged points twice before McGrath levelled the tie for the ninth time.
Inagh/Kilnamona substitute Darren Cullinan looked to be in for a goal but Feakle goalie Liam O’Connor made a marvellous save.
The sides again swapped points twice before Feakle landed three in a row from Ronan O’Connor, Owen McGann and McGrath to go three clear with the final whistle approaching.
Jason McCarthy and Conner Hegarty replied for Inagh/Kilnamona but Feakle had the final say and McGrath fired over his thirteenth of the tie with the last puck of the game to seal victory.
Feakle; Liam O’Connor; Killian Bane, Eoghan Daly, Conor Tuohy; Patrick Daly, Ronan O’Connor (0-1), Eoin Tuohy (0-1); Oisin Donnellan (0-1), Enda Noonan; Eoin McGuinness (0-1), Shane McGrath (0-13, 9f, 1’65), Martin Daly (0-1); Gary Guilfoyle (0-1), Owen McGann (0-1), Oisin O’Connor (0-3)
Subs; Raymond Bane for E. McGuinness; Enda Madden for C. Tuohy; Sean Walsh for G. Guilfoyle; Killian Bane for M. Daly;
Inagh/Kilnamona; Pa Kelly; Cathal McConigley, Keith White (0-1), Colin Shannon; Ricky Wynne, Jason McCarthy (0-1), Jason Griffin; Seamus Foudy (0-3), Marc Callinan; Josh Guyler, Conner Hegarty (0-4, 2f), Evan McNamara; Eoghan Foudy (0-1), Keelan Gulyer (0-6, 2f, 1’65), David Mescall (0-4);
Subs; Gerry Coote (0-1) for K. Guyler; Ronan Mesvall for E. Foudy;
Darren Cullinan for J. Guyler; Tom Barry for E. McNamara
Referee: Fergal O’Brien (Broadford)
Strong finish earns Broadford a second successive draw
Sixmilebridge 0-15
Broadford 0-15
Venue: O’Garney Park, Sixmilebridge
A powerful last quarter in which they outscored their opponents 0-9 to 0-1 earned Broadford a share of the spoils with Sixmilebridge on Friday evening.
The home side had the better of the first half exchanges and they led 0-11 to 0-5 at the interval. They went on to stretch their advantage to eight points but the visitors came storming back and had the better of the final quarter to seal a second successive draw in this competition.
Broadford were forced to replace forwards Shane Taylor and Craig Chaplin early in the game due to injury.
Sixmilebridge who had a number of players who had played in a division 2 game on the previous evening, tired in the final period of the senior game.
Sixmilebridge; Daniel Chaplin; Seamus O’Connell, Noel Purcell, Adam Breen; Conor Deasy, Leon Kelly, Pa Mulready; Sean Macnamara (0-1), Brian Carey; Luke O’Halloran (0-3), Alan Mulready (0-1), Alex Morey (0-7, 6f); Brian Corry, Shane Golden, David Kennedy (0-2);
Subs: Adam Murray for D. Kennedy (inj); Dylan Downes (0-1) for L. O’Halloran; Paul Corry for A. Mulready; John Deasy for Leon Kelly;
Broadford; Cian O’Brien; Damian Keniry, Davy Boland, Dara Whelan; Padraic Taylor (0-1), Darren Chaplin (0-1), Cian Mulqueen; Cathal Chaplin, Michael Vaughan (0-2); Craig Chaplin (0-2), Diarmuid Moloney (0-3), Cian Cremins (0-1); Aodán O’Driscoll, Shane Taylor, Donie Whelan (0-3);
Subs: Conor O‘Donnell for S Taylor (inj); Mark Gunning (0-2) for Craig Chaplin (inj)
Referee; Aaron Hogg, Clonlara
Magpies claim their first win
Clarecastle 1-20
St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield 0-16
Venue; Gurteen
Clarecastle claimed their first win of this campaign when they accounted for hitherto unbeaten St Josephs at Gurteen on Friday night.
A tally of 1-11 from Oisin Whelan, 0-7 coming from frees, helped them lay the foundation for this merited win.
The Magpies were the better balanced side on the evening and were never headed. They led by the minimum at half time when the score was 0-11 to 0-10 and they went on to dictate matters in the second half.
The absence of Ja Colleran and Dara O’Shea from the Doora/Barefield side’s defence was a blow to their hopes of recording another win but full credit must to the Clarecastle men who dominated the key areas and recorded a merited victory.
Clarecastle: Cian Broderick; Ronan Donnelly Filip Wiechinski, David Tuohy; Aaron Hayes, Darragh Healy, Evan Price (0-1); Stephen O’Halloran, Colin Brigdale; Conor Halpin, Oisin Whelan (1-11, 0-7f), Rory O’Connell (0-3); Paul O’Connell (0-1), Conor Ralph (0-1), Oisin Casey (0-1);
Subs; Conor Griffin for R. Donnelly (inj); Lee Brack (0-2) for C. Ralph;
Conor Whelan for A Hayes; Niall Brigdale for D. Healy; Evan O’Connell for O. Whelan
St. Joseph’s Doora/Barefield; Aaron Landy (0-1); Conor Daly, Paddy Nagle, Ciarán O’Driscoll; Adam Mungovan, Darragh McMahon, Darragh Nagle; Eoghan Thynne, Eoghan Talty; Michael Nash (0-1), Eoin Burke (0-1), Senan Crosbie (0-1), Thomas O’Connor; Eoin Lahiffe (0-9) Shane Mescall (0-2);
Subs: Mark O’Connor for E. Thynne; Brian Guilfoyle (0-1) for T. O’Connor; Niall Talty for S. Crosbie; Joe Mannion for E Talty
Referee: Joe Mullins (Clonlara)
Clooney/Quin cruise past Wolfe Tones
Clooney/Quin 2-17
Wolfe Tones 0-5
Venue: Wolfe Tones GAA Grounds, Shannon
By Michael Fitzgerald
Clooney/Quin were heavy winners against a poor Wolfe Tones side as the Shannon outfit were mauled 2-17 to 0-05 on Friday evening.
Blinding sunshine killed Wolfe Tones in the first half as they failed to win puck-out after puck-out with Clooney/Quin funneling the ball to their exceptional forward line.
Fergal Lynch’s side looked sharp in the first ten minutes with Callum Hasset scoring in the first minute. Wolfe Tones scored one of their two points in the first half via an Aaron Cunningham sideline. Cunningham was the their best player on an evening to forget as he notched up a further three frees during the game.
Hassett ran the show from full forward, scoring eight points including four frees and a sideline. The former Clare minor scored a further free in the second half as well as splitting the posts from play again in the thirty-sixth minute. Jerry O’Connor scored a goal from right corner forward after fifteen minutes which helped create their 1-10 0-2 half time cushion.
Cunningham scored a further three frees for Wolfe Tones in the second half, their only marks on the scoreboard for the thirty minutes. Michael Corry made an instant impact off the bench for Clooney/Quin scoring twice in two minutes from wing forward. Dylan Cunningham added three points to the visitors tally including two in the second half in the forty fifth and sixth minutes.
In the dying moments Clooney/Quin forward Patrick Finneran cut inside off the right and fired a fantastic goal past Oisin O’Rourke, the ball dinging off the right hand post and ricocheting in.
All photographs by Gerard O’Neill
Clooney/Quin: Cillian Duggan; Cillian O’Gara, Evan Maxted, Shane McNamara; Sean McNamara, Matthew Corbett, Sam Scanlan; David Considine (0-1), Jimmy Corry; John Conneally (0-2), Dylan Cunningham (0-3), PJ McCarthy, Jerry O’Connor (1-0), Callum Hassett (0-08 4F 1SC), Patrick Finneran (1-1)
Subs: Enda O’Halloran for Conneally (35) (inj), Michael Corry (0-2) for O’Connor (38) (inj), Donagh O’Sullivan for Considine (48), David Cahill for J Corry (48), Darragh Keogh for O’Gara (50)
Wolfe Tones: Oisin O’Rourke; Mikey Hayes, Liam Murphy, Conor Ferns; Ronan Walsh, Evan O’Gorman, Sam Meaney; John Guilfoyle, Aaron Kelly; Stevie Doneallan, Aaron Cunningham (0-04); Sean Murphy (0-01); Gavin Carrig, Dylan Frawley, Niall Fitzgerald.
Subs: Brian Murphy for L Murphy (25) (inj), Tadhg Fitzgerald for Hayes (40), Shane Nihill for Ferns (50) (inj), Jack Cunningham for Frawley (45).
Referee: Kieran Liddane (Sixmilebridge)
Hard earned win for Newmarket-on-Fergus
Newmarket-on-Fergus 0-16
O’Callaghans Mills 0-14
Venue: Fr Murphy Memorial Park, Newmarket-on-Fergus
Newmarket-on-Fergus recorded a hard earned two point win over O’Callaghans Mills to claim their first points in this season’s willwego.com Clare cup camaign on Friday evening.
Having suffered narrow defeats to Wolfe tones and Kilmaley in their opening two games, the reigning Clare Cup champions Newmarket-on-Fergus were clearly determined to come out on top in this one.
They took an early lead and while they struggled to build a big advantage, they always looked the likely winners.
In a tie in which there was never much between the sides on the scoreboard, James Power was the winner’s top scorer with 0-10 to his credit.
All photographs by Gerard O’Neill.
Newmarket-on-Fergus; Padraic Guilfoyle; Eoghan McInerney, Jack Enright, Mark Delaney; David Frost, Liam O’Connor (0-1), James McInerney; Shane Lynch, Damian Lyne; Stephen Casey (0-1), James Power (0-10), Paudie McMahon (0-1); James Freeman (0-1), Jack O’Connor (0-1), Eoin Guilfoyle;
Subs; Cian Foley (0-1) for J O’Connor; Sean O’Connor for S. Casey; James Liddy for J. Freeman; Darragh Jones for E McInerney; Cathal Cullinan for D. Lyne;
O’Callaghans Mills; John Cooney; Mike Cotter, John O’Brien, Gerry Cooney; Aidan Fawl (0-1), Aidan O’Gorman (0-2), Sean O’Gorman; Fionn Hickey (0-1), Mike McGrath; Stephen Donnellan, Kevin O’Callaghan (0-1), Cormac Murphy (0-2); Cathal McNamara, Sean Cotter (0-2), Sean Murphy (0-6);
Subs: Eoin McInerney for O’Callaghan; Alan O’Dea for McNamara
Referee: Jarlath Donellan (Wolfe Tones)
Half forward trio point the way for Kilmaley
Kilmaley 2-24
Corofin 2-17
Venue: Páirc Finne, Corofin
Corofin suffered their first defeat in this season’s Clare cup campaign when going under to Kilmaley in a high scoring tie at Corofin on Friday evening.
A strong performance from the Kilmaley half forward trio of Mikey O’Neill, Michael O’Malley and Sean O’Loughlin, who between them accounted of 0-17 of their team’s total, laid the foundation for this victory.
The winners were 1-13 to 1-7 in front at the interval in a tie in which they led from the outset.
Gearoid Kelly with 0-9, Gearoid and Diarmuid Cahill were the chief scorers for the home side.
Kilmaley; Bryan O’Loughlin; Sean Crowley, Colin Carmody, Stephen Murphy; Colin McGuane, Daire Keane, Eanna McMahon; Tommy Barry, Luke Reid (0-1); Mikey O’Neill (0-5), Michael O’Malley (0-8), Sean O’Loughlin (0-4); Colm Killeen (1-1), James Murphy (0-3), Joe Carmody (1-1);
Subs; Luke McMahon for L. Reid; Martin O’Connor for S Murphy; Leo Switzer for S. O’Loughlin; Enda Haren for C Killeen; Aidan Connellan for J. Murphy
Corofin; Liam Corbett; Colin Fitzgerald, Damian O’Loughlin, John Rees; Cormac Walsh, Killian O’Connor, Gearoid Hanrahan; Gearoid Cahill (0-5), Micheál Duffy; Kevin Keane (1-1), Gearoid Kelly (0-9), Cian Doolin; Seanán Kirby, Diarmuid Cahill (1-2), Cathal Flanagan
Subs; Damian Ryan for C Walsh; Liam Fitzpatrick for G. Hanrahan; Declan Stack for S. Kirby;
Referee; Jim Hickey (Cratloe)
Another win for Clonlara
Clonlara 3-17
Scariff 1-15
Venue: Scariff
Scariff started well and they had 1-1 on the scoreboard before Clonlara opened their account with a goal and they went on to lead at the break on a scoreline of 2-10 to 1-6.
After they had exchanged points in the early minutes of the second half, Scariff landed five in a row but Clonlara outscored them 0-4 to 0-2 early in the final quarter before striking for their third goal through Dylan McMahon.
McMahon top scored for the winners with 2-4. in what was an all round good team performance in which Paul McNamara, Kieran Howard, Dara Dillon, Micheal and Padraic O’Loughlin and Dylan McMahon were to the fore.
Scariff landed the last three points but time wasn’t on their side and Clonlara held on for a merited win despite playing the final quarter with fourteen men after Micheal O’Loughlin picked up a second yellow card which ended his involvement in the tie.
Clonlara; Alan Murnane; Michael Clancy, Paul McNamara, Padraig Reddan; Paraic O’Loughlin (0-1), Aidan Moriarty, David Fitzgerald (0-1); Dylan McMahon (2-4), Kieran Howard (0-1); Micheál O’Loughlin (0-5), Colm Galvin, Fionnán O’Bren; Eoin Begley (0-2), Brian McLeish (1-2), Dara Dillon (0-1)
Subs; Logan Ryan for F O’Brien; Gearoid O’Brien for D Fitzgeald; Conor Cahill for A. Moriarty
Scariff; William Kavanagh; Tadhg Kavanagh, Mike Scanlan, Cathal McCaul; Jack Ryan, Shane Kavanagh (0-2, f), Seanie Hartigan; Conor Downes, Sean Collins; Michael Barrett, Keelan Hartigan (0-1), Rossa Keehan; Ben Sweeney (1-11, 0-10 f), Paddy Ryan, Rory Ryan (0-1);
Subs; Colin O’Grady for M. Barrett; Eoghan Keehan for McCaul; Seamus McCaul for Jack Ryan; Conor Hayes for R Ryan; Brendan Tuohy for Scanlan;
Referee: Kevin Corry (Sixmilebridge)
