Galway 3-13 Clare 1-11: It’s six years since Galway lost their top flight status and while they are now in the driving seat to make a return, manager Kevin Walsh is not getting too excited just yet.

Will last Sunday, for hurling, mark Swexit, asks PM O’Sullivan?

Clonlara 3-11

Munster Schools Junior Cup: Castletroy 26 St Munchins 21

St Munchin’s 23 Ardscoil Rís 21

An 18-year-old Ennis youth who struck former Clare hurler Alan Markham with a beer glass in an unprovoked attack yesterday walked free from court.

Cratloe (Clare) 1-18 Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 0-14

Limerick kingpins Kilmallock and Cratloe of Clare will contest the AIB Munster senior club hurling championship final on November 23.

A Munster senior title-winning hurler turned up at Ennis Garda Station last Christmas with his head bloodied and bruised after being struck by a beer glass and a stick.

It was the summer of 2005, when Cratloe’s footballers first announced themselves on the local scene.

Jody O’Connor was the first speaker on stage at last January’s GAA Games Development Conference.

A dramatic “supermoon” is set to accompany this year’s Perseid meteor shower, one of the most anticipated events on the skywatcher’s calender.

When he could not get access to his young daughter, David Markham decided to get his own back on his former partner.

Clare 1-14 Limerick 0-11

Clare 2-18 Limerick 0-18

Last Wednesday marked the 90th anniversary of the death of Michael Collins. Ryle Dwyer on a new book on his decisive role in the Anglo-Irish War

ON THE afternoon of June 27, 1922, when Winston Churchill gave vent to his frustration at the failure to act against the IRA in the Four Courts, British intelligence was already aware that the provisional government in Dublin was deeply implicated in the offensive waged by the IRA in Northern Ireland over the previous two months.

There was irony aplenty at O’Connor Park, Tullamore yesterday as Aaron Cunningham, son of Offaly coach Alan, landed the decisive 70th minute winning point as Clare maintained their 100% record in Division 1B of the Allianz NHL.

Offaly 0-19 Clare 2-14

Clare 3-16 Wexford 0-18

UCC, the hosts and favourites, booked their place in today’s Fitzgibbon Cup final and in the process set up the first all-Cork college decider in the history of the event.

Limerick 4-12 Clare 2-13

THIS could have been an afternoon fraught with tension for the Clare hurlers but transpired to be a carefree stroll in Cusack Park, Ennis yesterday.

Waterford 0-22 Clare 1-15

Laois 1-11 Clare 2-12

All-Ireland winner Niall Gilligan has turned down an initial approach to link up with the Clare senior hurling panel for the 2010 campaign.

ALL-IRELAND winner Niall Gilligan has turned down an initial approach to link up with the Clare senior hurling panel for the 2010 campaign.

Clare 2-17 Waterford 2-12, Fraher Field, Dungarvan

AFTER the trauma of their senior team’s championship exit last Saturday, Clare hurling received a badly-needed tonic from their U21 camp last night in Cusack Park.

IRELAND’S next generation of potential Test stars are determined to make their mark in today’s summer tour opener against Canada (10pm Irish time).

A Swords woman who hit an old classmate with "an object" leaving her with a 5cm wound on her face has been given a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

CLARE 0-19 GALWAY 4-16

MICHAEL CARMODY (Castletroy College, Limerick) led all the way to win the senior boys title at the Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships at Tramore Racecourse yesterday, when the lack of teacher cover due to the cutbacks was reflected in much smaller entries.

CLARE 1-12 TIPPERARY 1-07

Down 1-13 Clare 3-25

GLEN and Rebekah Markham are a bit taken aback by the worldwide publicity surrounding their child, scheduled to arrive by Caesarean section today.

Colin Lynch has recovered from an ankle injury to be named in the Clare team to take on Kilkenny in Sunday's All-Ireland SHC semi-final (Croke Park, throw-in 4pm).

For the second year running, Wexford have crashed out of the All-Ireland Hurling Championship at the hands of Clare.

2001 All-Star defender Darragh Ryan has fought off injury to be included in the Wexford team for Sunday's All-Ireland SHC quarter-final against Clare (Croke Park, throw-in 2.15pm).

THERE’S a starting place on the Cork team for Neil Ronan, while injured trio Ollie Moran, Stephen Lucey and Brian Geary have been named on the Limerick side for Saturday’s Guinness All-Ireland SHC quarter-final clash at Semple Stadium.

Clare 2-21 Limerick 0-10

Clare have brought Barry Nugent into their side, in a straight swap for the injured Andrew Quinn, for Sunday's Munster SHC semi-final against Cork (Semple Stadium, throw-in 4pm).

CLARE have made just one change from the side that lost to Cork in last season’s Guinness All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final for Sunday’s Muster duel with their conquerors of nine months ago at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

ST. CAIMIN’S created history by winning their first ever Munster colleges football title at Feenagh yesterday.

BRIAN MURPHY and Tom Kenny are to return to the Cork team for Sunday’s Allianz NHL clash with Waterford at Pairc Uí Rinn.