Our Senior team have been steadily making progress in Division 1A of the Willwego.com Clare Cup. Narrowly losing out at the weekend to League leaders Crusheen, the Bridge now sit in second place with only one round remaining before the quarter final stages. See below for the latest reports on the Senior teams recent games.

Clare Cup Round 6
Crusheen 3-22
Sixmilebridge 1-25

Venue: O’Garney Park, Sixmilebridge
Referee - Jarlath Donnellan

Strong second half showing from Crusheen

Nine points in arrears after just eight minutes when the score was 1-6 to 0-0, not many would have expected Crusheen to overcome Sixmilebridge on their own grounds but the visitors hit back strongly at the start of the second half when they hit 1-6 without reply on their way to what may yet prove to be a vital victory.

Two Alex Morey points and three from Jamie Shanahan were followed by 1-1 from Brian Corry as the home side opened that early lead. From there to half time the sides were evenly matched with the home side leading 1-15 to 1-8 when the short whistle sounded, the visitor’s goal coming from Jamie Fitzgibbon.

Diarmuid Mullins scored a goal for Crusheen. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill.

Oisin O’Donnell, Diarmuid Mullins and Conor O’Donnell landed early second half points for Crusheen before Oisin O’Donnnell struck for the team’s first goal.

Two more Oisin O’Donnell points followed and one from Cian Dillon before Sixmilebridge opened their second half account.

Points were traded a few times before a Diarmuid Mullins goal gave the visitors the edge which they held to the finish.

Both sides remain very much in contention for league honours as they head into the final round of games.

Crusheen; David Kearney; Mark Perrill, Gavin O’Brien, Ian O’Brien; Diarmuid Mullins (1-3) Eanna McMahon, Cillein Mulllins; Oisin O’Donnell (1-5), James O’Sullivan; Jamie Fitzgibbon (1-3), Cian Dillon (0-2), Conor O’Donnell (0-2); Luke Ketalaar (0-3), Murrough McMahon (0-1), Gerry O’Grady (0-1);

Subs; Tadhg Deane (0-1) for M. McMahon; John O’Sullivan for J. O’Sullivan; Glen O’Sullivan (0-1) for L, Ketalaar;

Sixmilebridge: Daniel Chaplin; Adam Breen, Barry Fitzpatrick, Pa Mulready; Noel Purcell, Leon Kelly Paidi Fitzpatrick; Conor Deasy (0-1), Sean Macnamara (0-3); Seadna Morey (0-1), Jamie Shanahan (0-6), Alex Morey (0-9); Adam Murray, Alan Mulready (0-1), Brian Corry (1-2).

Subs; Shane Golden (0-1) for A Murray; Colm Flynn for A. Breen; Paul Corry for A. Mulready; Lorcan Fitzpatrick (0-1) for D. Deasy; Brian Carey for Macnamara

Referee: John Bugler (Whitegate)



Clare Cup Round 5
Sixmilebridge 4-23
St Joseph's 0-13

Venue - Sixmilebridge
Referee - John Healy

Daniel Chaplin, Adam Breen, Barry Fitzpatrick, Seamus O'Connell (Sub Paidi Fitzpatrick), Noel Purcell, Leon Kelly, Pa Mulready, Sean MacNamara (0-1), Conor Deasy, Caimin Morey (1-3) (Sub Callum Phelan (0-1)), Seadna Morey (0-2), Alex Morey (1-11), Brian Corry (0-2), Alan Mulready (1-0) (Sub Lorccan Fitzpatrick (0-1)), Adam Murray (0-1) (Sub Dara Casey (1-1))



Clare Cup Round 4
Sixmilebridge 3-18
Feakle 2-13

Venue - O’Garney Park, Sixmilebridge
Referee: Fergal O’Brien (Broadford)

A SHARPER and livelier Sixmilebridge were deserving winners over Feakle in the fourth round of the willwego.com Clare Cup played on Tuesday evening.

On a cold and wet evening, the home side dominated the opening half and they had built up an eight point lead by half time.

Players had to contend with the worst of the weather in the opening half and a very heavy shower shortly before half time made matters really difficult.

The winners had 0-4 on the board after as many minutes before the visitors opened their account through Shane McGrath.

By the end of the opening quarter it was 0-10 to 0-4 in Sixmilebridge’s favour and while Feakle narrowed the gap to four soon after, the home side struck for a Paul Corry goal and followed with two quick points to push further ahead. It was 1-12 to 0-7 when the half time whistle sounded.

Two Shane McGrath points in as many minutes at the start of the second half gave hope to Feakle but Paul Corry pounced for his second goal when Adam Murray’s effort was stopped on the line.

The winners then added 1-4 without reply, the third goal coming from Brian Corry, Paul’s older brother, and the home side led 3-16 to 0-10 with ten minutes remaining.

Changes to the Feakle line up, both positional and in personnel, brought about an improvement and two goals in the space of a couple of minutes from Oisin Donnellan, now operating in the full forward line, gave their followers hope.

Indeed they were unlucky not to have had a third goal as the ‘Bridge defence scrambled the ball to safety off he goal line before finishing with a brace of Alex Moey points to seal a merited win.

Conor Deasy, Leon Kelly, Alex Morey and the Corry brothers did well for the winners while Eoin Tuohy, Ronan O’Connor, Shane McGrath and Oisin Donnellan worked hard for Feakle

Sixmilebridge; Daniel Chaplin; Adam Breen, Noel Purcell, Seamus O’Connell; Conor Deasy, Leon Kelly, Pa Mulready; Sean Macnamara, Brian Carey; Luke O’Halloran (0-2), Jamie Shanahan, Alex Morey (0-12, 7f, 1’65); Brian Corry (1-1), Paul Corry (2-3), Adam Murray;

Subs; Luke Keogh for Shanahan; John Deasy for O’Connelll; Dara Casey for P Corry (inj)

Feakle; Liam O’Connor; Killian Bane, Eoghan Daly, Enda Madden; Patrick Daly (0-1), Ronan
O’Connor, Eoin Tuohy; Oisin Donnellan (2-0), Enda Noonan; Eoin McGann, Shane McGrath (0-10, 6f, 2’65’s) Martin Daly; Oisin O’Connor (0-1) Raymond Bane, Eoin McGuinness;

Subs; Conor Tuohy for E. Daly; Austin McMahon (0-1) for E. McGuinness; Sean Walsh for E. McGann; Oisin Clune for R. Bane, Justin Nelson for E. Noonan.