*Photograph: Burren Eye Photography LEAVING CERTIFICATE student Ellie Hanrahan kicked off her Mid-Term break in memorable fashion by producing a player of the game performance to help Kilmurry Ibrickane win the Clare senior ladies football championship for the first time.
*Kilmurry Ibrickane players celebrate. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography KILMURRY IBRICKANE have won the Clare LGFA senior championship for the very first time.
*Gavin Cooney celebrates. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ÉIRE ÓG are Clare SFC champions for the third time in four years after overcoming Kilmurry Ibrickane.
*Ciara McCarthy of Kilmurry Ibrickane. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill REACHING the Clare senior ladies final is “a big jump but a great achievement for Kilmurry Ibrickane”.
*Kilmurry Ibrickane captain, Chloe Moloney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. FOR KILMURRY Ibrickane captain Chloe Moloney playing for her club means everything.
*Joshua Moloney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill KILMURRY IBRICKANE have contested nine of the last seventeen senior championship finals, make it eleven if replays are included but Sunday will be a first decider in the top tier for Joshua Moloney.
*Kilmurry Ibrickane manager, David Egan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. DAVID EGAN has married into a staunch Éire Óg family and on Sunday he tows the line as the Kilmurry Ibrickane manager looking to stop the Ennis club from winning a third Jack Daly in four seasons.
*Niall Hickey and Patrick O’Connor. FROM THEIR appointment as joint managers of the Kilmurry Ibrickane senior ladies football team eighteen months ago, getting to a first ever county final at this level was the target for Niall Hickey and Patrick O’Connor.
*Kilmurry Ibrickane captain, Dermot Coughlan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. IT’S a race against time for Kilmurry Ibrickane captain Dermot Coughlan who is doing all he can to line out in Sunday’s Clare SFC final.
*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.
