Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

Clareman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119409914#Comment_119409914

Agree with this completely, Eire Ogs management cost them the game, Kilmaley had their home done and got their homework done, it took injuries for Eire Og and Kilmaley turning off to keep them in the game. Eire Og made panicked subs who didn't add much, Kilmaleys subs rose their game, i think 2 of the 3 scored

caddy16

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119409639#Comment_119409639

Agree with you apart from the penalty. I was down that side and the Kilmaley corner back broke his Hurley across SOD, it was 100 % the right call, I don't think they could decide who did it though so no one was booked.

Figerty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119410511#Comment_119410511

I have the video, I think you are right on the hurley. O'Donnell's class dummy made it go from a block down to a block across the arm, instead a hook/block. Pure class from O'Donnell.

Clareman

I watched the match back there, if anything it should have been a free out, O'Donnell launched himself at the goalie. There was about 4 Eire Og lads in the square at the end

PeggyShippen

Guys Eire Og have a fantastic squad. The best in Clare in my opinion. They don't have a winning mentality,haven't had it since the late 80s or early 90s. They never play for the full 70. They finally beat Sixmilebridge last year and it took years of beatings from tbe Bridge to finally stir them in an excellent performance. I think there's an issue in the club. Always whinging yet rarely performing on the pitch.

I ll compare Eire Og with Na Piarsaigh down the dual carriageway. Na Piarsaigh weren't liked because it led to the demise of Treaty Sarsfields club. They were also seen as outsiders full of Tipp ,Clare ect. And Northside townies. They didn't whinge. They knuckled down and finally made tbe breakthrough and stayed ontop more or less. They also produce aggressive players like William O Donoghue. Eire Og don't produce that sort of player . You have to have a mix of skill and aggression.

Figerty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119410732#Comment_119410732

I think you could argue that was after the fact. To be fair his momentum would have brought him into the goals. The goalie stood his ground it was a good save; very hard to stop O'Donnell in that position. I wouldn't fault O'Donnell at all for coming through.

Clareman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119410829#Comment_119410829

O'Donnell got some very soft frees, I always thought if you touched the goalie in the small square it was a free out, it was a good save it was never a penalty in my opinion.

Figerty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119410928#Comment_119410928

You can't 'tackle' a goalie in the square.. not the same as not touching him. The penalty came from the challenge from the cornerback. O'Donnell plays the double swerve very well. Moves left, then right into the man and lift the hurley up as though impeded.. He usually is a the backs have to hang off him.

Figerty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119410761#Comment_119410761

Eire Og have some basic skills issues.

Aron Fitz tried to bulldoze his way out at the end of the first half. He dropped the head and put the shoulder out in front and then was livid when pulled for charging. Likewise, Corry lost the plot when he dropped the hurley in front of the ref, even if it was held he still let it go. With better coaching (probably at underage) most of the mistakes made could have been avoided. Or another was trying to block a player coming in with his shoulder instead of the body with the arms up..easy free for a ref.

Clareman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119411081#Comment_119411081

Eire Og have major issues full stop, their sideline was a disgrace yesterday, Gerry O'Connor was constantly being told to get off the pitch, players coming off were swearing at management, Niall Malone had to calm a few of them down in the stand, panicked subs. Kilmaley's sideline was a lot more measured, small things like making substitutions on the opposition puck out make a huge difference.

Clareman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119411081#Comment_119411081

Eire Og were 1 of the few clubs not to field an under 19 team in the championship and they gave walk overs in the Junior A league (they were in the relegation playoff for that last year), for a club with the resources and pick they have it's a disgrace how it's being ran.

golfball37

NR not part of the Kilmaley coaching team so!

Gael85

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119409954#Comment_119409954

How come Billy Connors transferred to Wolfe Tones?

Clarecastle 1-14 O Callaghans Mills 1-14 result from the Clare SHC at Cusack Park. The mills led by 4 with 5 mins of normal time left before a Bobby Duggan inspired comeback for the magpies gave them a 1 point lead before Gary Cooney scored the leveller and the final score of the match.

Feakle v the Bridge at 3 today in Ennis.

Sixmilebridge put a very impressive tally of 1-31 in their 21 point hammering against a very poor Feakle in the second Clare SHC game today in the park.

The Bridge have been the most impressive team so far in the championship. Sean Stack is a serious operator, should be a future Clare hurling manager candidate once Lohan goes.

Figerty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119412373#Comment_119412373

Not a hope will Stack ever manage a Clare senior team. He was a fiasco when he was a selector in the early 2000's. His time has passed.

Feakle were blown away by an organised Bridge team. Bridge are clear favourites for the championship now. Quality all over the field and plenty on the sideline. However, they won't really be tested now until the Q finals. Tactically Feakle tried a sweeper and it didn't work as the bridge won all the personal battles. The fact they only scored one goal is how easy it was. Will be hard for Feakle to recover from this.

Figerty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119411458#Comment_119411458

Living in Shannon now by all accounts. Big addition to Wolfe Tones.

When is the next Clare county board meeting? The reason why I ask is because we will know by then what Colm Collins’ intentions for the Clare footballers for 2023? Will he stay or will he go?

I also presume that Brian O Connell will remain on with the Clare minor hurlers (likely to be U18 grade next year) and Mikey Neylon for the U20 footballers.

caddy16

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119410732#Comment_119410732

They're 2 seperate incidents, If you think the first one wasn't a penalty you've no business watching hurling, it's not even debatable

Figerty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119413844#Comment_119413844

Took the ref, umpires and linesmen a long time to decide it was a penalty!

caddy16

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119415717#Comment_119415717

I heard that was more to do with not knowing which player broke the hurley!!!

Sterling Archer

This weekends Senior fixtures

Sat 6th Aug 22

Cratloe Vs St Joseph's Doora Barefield Senior Football Championship Gp 2 Rd 1

Shannon 3:00 PM

Éire Óg Ennis Vs St. Breckan's Senior Football Championship Gp 1 Rd 1

Cusack Park 4:30 PM

Corofin Vs St Joseph's Miltown Malbay Senior Football Championship Gp 1 Rd 1

Cusack Park 6:30 PM

Sun 7th Aug 22

Lissycasey Vs Kilmihil Senior Football Championship Gp 2 Rd 1

Cusack Park 12:00 PM

Kilmurry Ibrickane Vs Doonbeg Senior Football Championship Gp 3 Rd 1

Milltown Malbay 12:30 PM

Clondegad Vs Ennistymon Football Senior Football Championship Gp 3 Rd 1

Cusack Park 1:45 PM

Great win for the exciting young Corofin team v St Joseph’s Miltown Malbay by 0-18 to 1-14 in the Clare SFC opener in the park. Robin Mounsey immense with 0-6 from play. Cormac Murray with 9 points for the losers. Great game!

The defending champions Eire Og had one point to spare over Cusack Cup champions St Breckans. Gavin Cooney and Mark McInerney with their usual decent totals while Manus Doherty is going to be one of Clare’s great backs, outstanding stuff from the 21 year old townie.

Cratloe beat Doora Barefield 2-10 to 0-14. Podge played well for the winners while 21 year old Tom McDonald and Fionn Kelleher who still has one more year for the county’s U20’s next year also played well.

the fact that the first three games of the Clare SFC had less than a score margin in the end shows the rude health of the Clare SFC. The fact that there are 12 teams in the championship rather than 16, has greatly improved the race for Jack Daly while also improving the standard of the intermediate championship.

Cooraclare and Kildysart as expected came out on top with emphatic wins over Banner and Coolmeen in today intermediate championship openers. Banner were missing Shane Meehan due to a family bereavement.

Treble double

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119438536#Comment_119438536

Great entertainment in the Park today, Breckans came out of the blocks fast but Eire Og worked their way into it and did enough. The match up between McGann and Manus Doherty was good viewing, Manus edged it, he is a Rolls Royce of a player.

Corofin have hit the ground running, Robin Mounsey kicked 5 from play in the first half, Colm Collins may be giving him a buzz, the Cahills and Tom Rice very impressive and great to see a traditional ball winner at the edge of the square in Keane. Cormac Murray almost dragged Milltown over the line with a sensational display but it wasn't to be.

Great to see club ball being played on a pristine pitch in the sunshine it really gives an edge to talented players. An endorsement to the split season. It would have been much easier to shut down the likes of Mounsey and Murray in a quagmire.

windy shepard henderson

Two good games for sure , especially enjoyed corofins brand of attacking football, they lack at the back but how they dissected the blanket Miltown defence was impressive

Breckans were the better team in the second game but literally done everything not to win the game , decision making is letting them down big time, even Joe Mcganns last possession highlighted that 3 minutes into stoppage time

It's probably something we need to work on as a county because the general standard of play is fairly high at the moment

Mick Bohan part of the Kilmurry Ibrickane management team and is in Miltown to oversee their game v Doonbeg today.

Treble double

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119440648#Comment_119440648

Mick Bohan is helping Quilty with a few years. I think these gurus get too much credit. If you have good players you will win if you don't you won't simple. The gurus will always gravitate towards successful teams. Vicki Wall bull dozed through much of Bohans coaching. Class players will always shine through no matter who is coaching for or sgainst them.

Reading some of the other county forums and it's the typical "what might have been this year" type of posts. The Laois GAA discussion board on gaaboard.com had one particular interesting post that suggests that Brendan Bulger who was the Clare U20 hurling coach this year and coached the Flannans U15 hurlers this year and is the current manager of Birr, I think (Offaly posters can clarify) is the new Laois manager in waiting. Any truth in this?

supernova5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119446462#Comment_119446462

heard that also, other name bandied about for Laois job are Eamonn Kelly

supernova5

scrap that I meant to say other candidate is Brendan Cummins

Figerty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119446462#Comment_119446462

Would be a good appointment for Offaly, except that they will be playing a sweeper and Davy Fitz's tactics.

Sterling Archer

Weekends Senior Fixtures

Saturday

Inagh-Kilnamona v Mac Gabhann Ui Bhriain

Senior Hurling Championship Gp 4 Rd 2

Shannon 2:30 PM - Live streamed

Clonlara v Whitegate

Senior Hurling Championship Gp 1 Rd 3

Cusack Park 4:30 PM - Live streamed

Crusheen v Wolfe Tones Shannon

Senior Hurling Championship Gp 4 Rd 2

Tulla 6:30 PM - Not streamed

Áth Leathan v Cratloe

Senior Hurling Championship Gp 2 Rd 3

Cusack Park 6:30 PM - Live streamed

Sunday

Kilmaley v Clooney Quin

Senior Hurling Championship Gp 3 Rd 2

Cusack Park 1:00 PM - Live streamed

Ballyea v Clarecastle

Senior Hurling Championship Gp 2 Rd 3

Cusack Park 3:00 PM - Live streamed

Éire Óg Ennis v Scariff

Senior Hurling Championship Gp 3 Rd 2

Sixmilebridge 4:30 PM - Live streamed

Feakle v Newmarket on Fergus

Senior Hurling Championship Gp 1 Rd 3

Sixmilebridge 6:30 PM - Live streamed

Figerty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119459947#Comment_119459947

To Win this weekend:

Inagh Kilnamona

Clonlara

Wolfe Tones

Cratloe

Kilmaley

Ballyea

Eire og

Newmarket

Smith O Briens 2-15 Inagh kilnamona 0-20 result in the Clare senior hurling championship. Massive massive shock in Shannon. Fair play to the Killaloe men! Massive scalp against last years county finalists.

callaway92

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119468234#Comment_119468234

Hardly a chance the lineups for that match are available anywhere?

PeggyShippen

Nice one for Smith O Briens. That's a nice one for South East Clare.

Cratloe playing a lovely brand of hurling here. Leading Broadford 13 points to 7 heading towards half-time.

windy shepard henderson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119468259#Comment_119468259

Smith O’Briens

1: Mark McInerney

2: Cian Moloney 3: David Gough 4: Mark Stritch

5: Cian Nolan ,6: Eddie Bourke, 7: Dwayne Sheedy

8: Micheal Ryan ,9: Tommy Reddan

10: Marc O’Halloran,11: Keith Stritch,12: Patrick Aherne

18: Shane Geraghty ,13: Mikey O’Shea ,14: David O’Shea

17: Evan Connolly for Cian Moloney

20: John Cusack for Patrick Aherne

13: Jason Monaghan for Marc. O’Halloran

Tommy Reddan (0-9)

David O’Shea 1-1;

Keith Stritch (1-0);

Marc O’Halloran (0-2);

Cian Moloney, Mikey O’Shea, Patrick Aherne (0-1)

Inagh-Kilnamona;

1: Eamonn Foudy

2: Cathal McConigley ,7: Damian Lafferty ,4: Colin Shannon

5: Shane Woods ,6: Jason McCarthy ,9: David Fitzgerald

8: Darren Cullinan ,20: Seamus Foudy

10: Evan McNamara ,11: Sean Rynne ,12: David Mescall

13: Josh Guyler ,14: Aidan McCarthy ,15: Keelan Guyler

Subs:

3: Kevin Hehir for Colin Shannon

21: Conner Hegarty for Keelan Guyler

17: Shane Mc Inerney for Evan McNamara

15: Keelan Guyler for Niall Mullins

Aidan McCarthy (0-15);

Niall Mullins (0-2);

Evan McNamara, Sean Rynne, Josh Guyler (0-1)

callaway92

Thank you

I think Inagh are missing a trick with their lineup in parts

windy shepard henderson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119470299#Comment_119470299

ennistymon in football the same not trying to ruffle the feathers of the lafertys or the laikes of tal cullinans crew but both clubs are now almost twined , , and twined with the same problem, what is the best team , are we leaving too many senior players on the second team ect , inside forward line for the combo is poor at the moment . conor hegarty not starting is a terrible decision in my opinion

smiths are a deacent side ,mikey and david gough are fine hurlers and had great games today , nolan we all know about is at the peak of his powers lets hope he continues for the next 4 -5 years in the same vain , the two o'sheas for killaloe are fantastic as well i have been raving about mike for years now

supernova5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119470426#Comment_119470426

Don't see Mike Gough's name in the starting team or subs

what age is Cian Nolan?

windy shepard henderson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119470966#Comment_119470966

Nolan must be at least 27 , nearly sure he was on the u21 panel that won the all Ireland in 2014

Mikey Gough is in the age bracket of 21/22 ,

supernova5

yea Nolan is showing real form and a late bloomer I suppose, Mike Gough got a fair amount of league game time for Clare but seemed to fall out of favour come Championship

windy shepard henderson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119470966#Comment_119470966

mikey injured ,ment to say david had a fine game , david is roughly the same age as nolan ,

windy shepard henderson

fine win for clooney against kilmaley , in the first game in the park , 3 meter peter was on fire for the winners , really impressed with the younger lads in the clooney/quin side , espically john coneeley , donagh o'sullivan and eoin o'brien all new additions to the side and look the part

kilmaley were only a shadow of their first half performance against eire og , only gearoid o'grady showed any fight up front , cathal darcy did well also when introduced , they will have there work cut out now to beat scariff in the final round

Peter Duggan (0-12 8f); Ryan Taylor (0-4); Eoghan O’Brien (0-3);

John Conneely, Ulick O’Sullivan (0-2) each. Callum Hassett, Shane Harrisson, Luke Harrisson (0-1) for clooney

Gearoid O’Grady (1-3) Cian Moloney (0-4 4f); Cathal Darcy (0-2); for kilmaley ,

in the second game ballyea sleep walked there way to a 3rd group win against a poor and wasteful clarecastle side , intercounty footballer aaron griffin had a super game scoring 6 from play , the old guard of bobby duggan and stephan O'Halloran brought the fight to their neighbors scoring 1-9 out of a 1-12 total big game coming up against broadford now for the magpies , they must win that if they want to stay senior

 Niall Deasy (3 frees), Aaron Griffin (0-6) each; Tony Kelly (0-3) Thomas Kelly (0-2), Cathal O’Connor, Mossy Gavin, Pearse Lillis, Martin O’Leary (0-1) for balllyea

Bobby Duggan (1-7, 0-5 frees); Jack Murphy (0-2); Stephen O’Halloran, Darragh Healy (free), Killian McDermott, Patrick Kelly, James Doherty (0-1) for the magpies

windy shepard henderson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119468891#Comment_119468891

while you have eluded us about your favoured location within the country let a lone the county , i find this a cryptic celebration for clonlars win over whitegate .......🤔 am i right....

Sterling Archer

This weekends Senior fixtures

Sat 20th Aug 22

Cratloe v Kilmihil

Senior Football Championship Gp 2 Rd 2

Cusack Park 4:30 PM

Corofin v St. Breckan's

Senior Football Championship Gp 1 Rd 2

Milltown Malbay 6:00 PM

Ennistymon Football v Kilmurry Ibrickane

Senior Football Championship Gp 3 Rd 2

Cusack Park 6:30 PM

Sun 21st Aug 22

Éire Óg Ennis v St Joseph's Miltown Malbay

Senior Football Championship Gp 1 Rd 2

Kilmihil GAA 12:30 PM

Lissycasey v St Joseph's Doora Barefield

Senior Football Championship Gp 2 Rd 2

Cusack Park 1:00 PM

Clondegad v Doonbeg

Senior Football Championship Gp 3 Rd 2

Cusack Park 3:00 PM

The whole Clare senior Camogie management team have resigned en masse. There have been some unsavoury rumours in the last few days so this decision by the management will come as no surprise.

In any event the management were hopelessly out of their depth, just about avoided relegation to the intermediate grade after beating Offaly in a relegation play-off.

callaway92

I think the time was right anyway - The team has a potential boom period incoming and a fresh management team is exactly what the County Board should've wanted to kick them on

PeggyShippen

Yeah important they stayed up but management for all Clare teams seem hit and miss. No real plan or promotion. It's a lucky dip. Could do with a consistent plan