Allianz FL Division 2

Alan and Donncha O’Connor have committed to the Cork football squad for 2017, selector Eoin O’Neill has confirmed.

Kilmurry Ibrickane 2-13 Cratloe 0-6: A powerful second-half performance saw Kilmurry Ibrickane claim their 11th Clare SFC title in front of a crowd of 3,722 at Cusack Park, Ennis.

Kilmallock 1-32 Cratloe 3-18 (AET)

Cratloe 2-12 Éire Óg 0-11

Clare 2-28 University College Cork 1-04

Clare 1-14 Limerick 0-11

Clare have included just two of their All-Ireland winning team in their side for tomorrow’s Waterford Crystal Cup quarter-final against Limerick in Sixmilebridge.

Cratloe 0-10 Doonbeg 0-7

Clare 1-32 Laois 0-15

Clare 1-32 Laois 0-15

Clare senior hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald will give championship debuts to four players in Sunday’s Munster SHC quarter-final against Waterford in Thurles (throw-in 4pm).

UCC 1-13 NUIG 0-14

Clare 1-21 Tipperary 1-13

Newmarket-on-Fergus 3-10 Cratloe 0-09

Cratloe 1-14 Inagh/Kilnamona 0-14

Clare 1-20 Limerick 3-18

Clare 1-18 Waterford 2-17

Tipperary edged out their Clare hosts by a point in an entertaining senior hurling challenge at the official opening of the Clonlara GAA facilities last night.

Kilkenny 1-20 Clare 0-14

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.

Clare booked their place in the NHL Division 1B final after their fourth consecutive win of the campaign at Cusack Park, Ennis yesterday.

Clare had just too much power and speed for Laois at Portlaoise yesterday, but when one recalls the dreadful championship humiliation suffered by the Moores at the hands of Cork in the same venue last summer, there was plenty to be positive about formanager, Teddy McCarthy.

Clare 2-22 Laois 2-13

Clare recorded their second win of the Allianz Division 1B campaign with a hard fought victory over Antrim at Cusack Park, Ennis yesterday.

Clare 0-20 Antrim 0-12

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.

Davy Fitzgerald’s Clare produced a near-perfect display to dismantle and demolish their Limerick hosts in a thrilling league opener at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday.

Limerick 1-13 Clare 2-24

University of Limerick, boasting a number of senior county stars, proved too strong for IT Carlow in the second half of this Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final.

Holders, University of Limerick were pushed all the way by a plucky St Pat’s team that scrapped for every ball in this Fitzgibbon Cup game at the Na Fianna grounds, Dublin yesterday.

Tipperary manager Declan Ryan is relishing the prospect of an early season joust with old rivals Cork next Sunday in what could be an early season dress rehearsal for a Munster semi-final in the summer.

Honours even at the end of a first-round Fitzgibbon Cup derby that never got off the ground at UL yesterday.

UCC 3-14 UL 0-12

DAVY FITZGERALD, who looks set to be ratified as Clare hurling boss tomorrow night, returned to his roots on Saturday with an impressive display for Sixmilebridge in their SHC semi-final win at Cusack Park, Ennis.

IN perfect summer conditions, a powerful Limerick side proved too strong for Clare in Cusack Park yesterday as they booked their place against Cork in next Wednesday’s Munster Under-21 hurling final.

A LARGER than expected crowd were in sunny Pearse Stadium on Saturday evening for this All-Ireland senior hurling qualifier with both sets of supporters approaching the tie with trepidation.

Galway 4-25 Clare 0-20

CONOR O’MAHONY returns to the Tipperary lineup for Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Clare in the Gaelic Grounds in the only change from the side that defeated Cork last month. O’Mahony is named at centre-back with Padraic Maher moving to half-back and John O’Keeffe to the full-back line in place of Paddy Stapleton.

CLARE had six points to spare over neighbours Galway in a senior hurling challenge to mark the opening of a new pitch at Pairc Uí h-Aonghusa, Clooney-Quin last night.

RARELY does league fare take centre stage in the imagination of hurling folk, especially not outside the top tier, but such was the interest in this crucial Allianz Hurling League Division Two final that Ennis on Saturday evening bore all the hallmarks of a championship encounter.

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.