Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

some interviews over the weekend from nicholas rynne on youtube

i taught he got through a lot of work was the assist to the assist if that makes since on several scores and had daniel costelloe to worry about as well

both half back lines for eire og and clooney were excellent last week but you would have to look at the ballyea defending as the reason clooney are in the final , they conceded 3 very poor goals , they wont get them easy scoring chances in the final

Doora/barefield 3-11 1-14 cratloe

Eire Og will be joined by neighbours Doora/Barefield in the county football final after the parish just about hung on against cratloe in an open game in the park , a brilliant joe rafferty goal halfway through the second half along with a tom curran green flag looked to have the parish into their first county final since 2012 , but cratloe struck back with a volly of late goal chances , tadgh lohan looked to be pulled down for a penalty recovered to shoot inches wide , the next play podge collins had a shot blocked by diarmuid boyle to save the day and set up a repeat of this years cusack cup final

to be fair eire og could only beat what was in front of them , lissycasey had little homework done on where eire og are weak because they were well stress tested by miltown and barefield in recent games , lissycasey just attacked down the left hand side of the eire og defence hoping they wouldn't notice

Barefield are a raw side they make a lot of mistakes but they have some battlers in that side , the two currans daragh o'shea eoin thyne and obviously joe rafferty, paul madden was sitting near me and he was making great praise for cian mcdonagh , he was disappointing in the first half but good in the second

i was sitting near the 45 at the tulla road end so a good bit away from the lohan incident , i also taught it was boyle that blocked it but it was probably o'shea

Big weekend in clare gaa with the senior hurling final the intermediate and junior hurling semi finals and the ladies football finals ,

the big news this week was the news that deidre murphy is to step down from her role as sectary of the county board, a role she took over from the controversial pat Fitzgerald, in her time between herself and chairman kieran keating there has been massive changes in terms of improving underage standards and an improvement in senior inter county standards over seeing two minor Hurling all ireland finals and a senior final in 3 years winning 2/3 , the funding from the sale of two houses to the value of 500,000 to the clare inter county teams and development squads and the deal with the biggest employer in the county to the value of 2,000,000 over the next 3 years , while she might not have been everyone's cup of tea to deal with in clareabbey but she leaves behind an impressive a CV and big shoes to fill for whoever takes over .

best of luck to both teams in the senior hurling final tomorrow i reckon it will be a cracker , i cant call it and it has the county divided over the last two weeks , my prediction is eire og because of their defensive capability's but i would be anything but mystic meg when it comes to predictions

in the premier intermediate semi finals today o'callaghans mills backed up their favertisium to go straight back up to senior with an impressive win over a good ruan side , clarecastle hade a flattering win over 14 man whitegate , the magpies scored 3-02 in the last 3 minutes to put a gloss on what was a tight game in really tough conditions

highlights of both games with cheesy music instead of great commentary from the likes of leo dowling , streamsport take note

Eire og are county champions for the 2nd time in a week as they managed to achieve a rare football and hurling double after a battling win over neighbours doora/barefield ,

the townies were under huge pressure for 2/3ds of the game mainly down to 2 oran o'connell goals in the first half . the 10/1 outsiders kicked 2 two pointers early in the second half to lead by 4 but the ennis men tagged on 1-08 without reply with a late gavin cooney goal and dodgy celebration and two 2 pointers put them out of sight

Corofin are back up to senior ranks after a 5 point win over cooraclare in the intermediate final , the west clare side threw everything at the favorites but goals from colin mcnamara and shane lillis were not enough to reel in the jamie malone inspired side , the cahill brothers diarmuid and gearoid amounted for 1-08 out of the 2-14 tally with cillian mcgroary and malone kicking 0-3 points each

in the junior A final yesterday , killimer returned to intermediate level after relegation last year , the ferry men had liam culligan , the kelliher brothers jack and mikey and colm pyne to thank for getting them over the line by the minimum in the end with a one point win over a young lissycasey second team

as far as brian mc is concerned i am nearly 100% sure he has declared for the footballers for next year , i cant see jamie malone join up with the intercounty set up given that he is still based outside in the emirates , he was only coming home for corofin games and heading back out again , ciaran emigrating is similar to pearse i am told , as in go for 6 or 8 months but back for the club again next year , his cousin done the same this year , but yeah with a new manager there are plenty of options available to paul madden going forward this year ,

excellent effort by barefield they are the only team that put it up to eire og all year , the legs were gone in the last ten minutes though and they got punished for it , as far as corofin are concerned they got a few injuries last year and lost diarmuid cahill to injury early in the championship and malone wasnt around they were desperate poor in the relegation final against us so if they can keep everyone fit they could be a dangerous side next year

Cooraclare are young and have michael garry to come back too but i still think they could be couple of years away yet , i think two or three of that team today are still in secondary school so i would be playing the patient game with them ,