*Gearoid and Owen Lynch. Photograph: Páraic McMahon GAA is at the heart of life in the Loop Head Peninsula with Naomh Eoin bridging to win promotion to the Clare senior football championship for the first time.
*Darren O’Neill prepares to take on Daniel Walsh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SHOWPIECE events in the Clare football calendar take pride of place this Saturday and Sunday with silverware to be claimed in the senior and intermediate football championships.
David Jones makes an excellent save from Colin Riordan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. A POOR defensive display attributed to Kilrush Shamrocks’ exit from the Clare intermediate football championship.
*Eoghan Casey offloads under pressure from Ross Cullinan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. OVERCOMING Kilrush Shamrocks in the Clare IFC semi-final “was always about revenge” for Wolfe Tones.
*Cratloe’s Eoin Carey is swarmed by Caoilfhinn O’Dea and Daryn Callinan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FINALISTS have been confirmed in the senior and intermediate football championships.
*Aaron Kelly scored two goals for Wolfe Tones. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. WOLFE TONES’ bid to win an intermediate double for the first time is still alive after their footballers edged out Kilrush Shamrocks in an entertaining semi-final clash.
*Naomh Eoin players celebrate at the final whistle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill NAOMH EOIN have qualified for the TUS Clare IFC final for the first time after edging out Clondegad in the first of the intermediate semi-finals.
*Cathal O’Connor. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. SEMI-FINAL action in the TUS Clare senior and intermediate football championships dominates the action in the local GAA scene this weekend.
*Brian McNamara prepares to back heel the ball to the net despite being surrounded by a sea of Kilrush bodies. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. “SILLY MISTAKES” by Cooraclare were punished by Kilrush Shamrocks to see them eliminated from the Clare IFC but the Milesians can be optimistic for the future.
*Dylan O’Brien takes on Sean Browne. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. KILRUSH SHAMROCKS are sixty minutes away from a successive final appearance in the Clare intermediate football championship.
