Kilmurry bid to keep home fires burning

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE nestles in the very heart of football-mad west Clare, a parish like so many others, with life revolving around the local GAA field.

They haven’t always had the best of times. Thee titles between 1963 and 1993 combined to provide the total contents of their senior football championship trophy cabinet by the turn of the century.

But things are changing. Two more titles have been added since 2002, and now, for the first time in their history, the club are on the eve of an All-Ireland club semi-final against Mayo champions Ballina Stephenites.