*Michael Rock has a word with Darragh Leahy. Photograph: Joe Buckley A CHRISTMAS break is upon us in the local soccer scene and the season to date is reviewed in the latest episode of The Water Break.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill AVENUE UTD have been handed an away tie in the last thirty two of the FAI Junior Cup.
*Avenue Utd’s Mossy Hehir. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill AVENUE UTD will celebrate Christmas and ring in the New Year at top of the table in the Maloney Hardware CDSL Premier Division.
*A hat-trick from Elias Kunz helped Avenue Utd into the Munster Junior Cup quarter-finals. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill AVENUE UTD have advanced with ease to the last eight of the Munster Junior Cup.
*Conor Mullen heads the ball of the crossbar. Photograph: Natasha Barton AVENUE UTD and Newmarket Celtic reignited their rivalry over the weekend but there was inflammable scenes to take attention away from the football.
*Mark Pewter, Jim Lynch and Paul Tuohy. AVENUE UTD progressed in the latest round of the FAI Junior Cup, Newmarket Celtic crashed out of the Munster Junior Cup and Kilkishen Celtic and Tulla Utd could not be separated in the East Clare derby.
*Avenue Utd’s Elias Kunz. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill AVENUE UTD have managed to avoid any of the big guns in the fourth round of the FAI Junior Cup.
*Elias Kunz under pressure from Harvey Cullinan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill AVENUE UTD have ended Newmarket Celtic’s reign as FAI Junior Cup champions.
*Eoin Hayes holds off Nnabuike Nneji. Photograph: Joe Buckley A BIG WEEKEND BECKONS FOR soccer in Co Clare with third round ties in the FAI Junior Cup set to draw plenty of interest from local supporters.
*The victorious Newmarket Celtic squad and management. NEWMARKET CELTIC have claimed the President’s Cup and Avenue Utd held off a stern challenge from Tulla Utd to progress in the Munster Junior Cup.
