CLARE CREATED handball history by claiming both the mens and ladies Al-Ireland minor titles last weekend.<\/p>\n
In achieving victory Claire Minogue (Tuamgraney) and Sean Considine (Clooney\/Quin) brought the titles back to the county in the same season for the first time, beating opponents from Galway and Sligo.<\/p>\n
Minogue is just the second Clare player ever to win the ladies minor title, while Considine is the fifth Clare player to win the prestigious minor title since 1982.<\/p>\n
Tulla\u2019s Tony Leyden also had success in the Junior B grade overcoming Galway opposition in two hard-fought games, while Marie Long overcame Ellen Collins in an all-Clare final in the Junior C grade which required a tiebreaker.<\/p>\n
There was disappointment for Diarmaid Nash in the All-Ireland senior singles final against his long-time rival Robbie McCarthy. The match produced a close first game that could have gone either way, McCarthy closed it out and took the momentum into the second game, claiming his eighth All-Ireland senior title 21-19 21-7.<\/p>\n
There was also All-Ireland silver medals for Seanie Doyle (Junior), Shane Walsh (Masters B) and Jim Cleary (Golden Masters B), all falling short to Leinster opposition in two games.<\/p>\n
It brings an end to a busy few months of singles county, provincial and All-Ireland championships with attention now turning to the doubles championship.<\/p>\n
Last week\u2019s All-Ireland singles finals were held in the National handball centre in Croke Park over Saturday and Sunday<\/p>\n
Results
Men\u2019s Senior Final: Westmeath(Robbie McCarthy) defeated. Diarmaid Nash 21-19, 21-7
Ladies Minor Final: Claire Minogue) defeated. Galway\u2019s Freya Donnellan)21-0, 21-1
Men\u2019s Minor Final: Sean Considine defeated. Sligo\u2019s Travis Gibbons 21-10, 21-6
Ladies Junior C Final: Marie Long) defeated Ellen Collins) 15-21, 21-3, 11-7
Junior B Final: Kilkenny\u2019s Jack Holden) defeated Seanie Doyle) 21-10, 21-4
Junior Final: Tony Leyden) defeated Galway\u2019s David Donoghue, 21-13, 21-18
Masters B Final: Wexford\u2019s Noel Holohan defeated Shane Walsh 21-8, 21-18
Golden Masters B Final: Wexford\u2019s Shane Rossiter) defeated Jim Cleary 21-17, 21-17<\/p>\n
Juvenile B Championship<\/p>\n
The Clare juvenile B championship finals were held last week after a busy six weeks of matches to reach this stage.
Results
U16 Boys Cup; Tiernan Garvey (Clooney) bt Danny Griffin (Toonagh)
U17\/18 Boys Cup; Tom Moloney (Tulla) bt John Burke (Newmarket)
U15 Girls Cup; Molly McMahon (Clooney) bt Sarah Brodie (Clarecastle)
U13 Boys Cup; Conal O\u2019Murchu (Tulla) bt Ruadhan Fogarty(Tulla)
U13 Boys Shield; Gus Sheedy (Tulla) bt Michael Cahir(Toonagh)
U14 Boys Shield; Leo Danagher (Tuamgraney) bt Luca Ginnane (Newmarket)
U13 Girls Cup; Sarah McGrath (Clooney) bt Aimee O\u2019Hanlon(Tulla)
U12 Girls Plate; Meabh Moroney (Tuamgraney) bt Katie Murphy(Tulla)
U12 Girls Cup; Meabh Coffey (Clooney) bt Kelly Ann McMahon (Clooney)
U13 Boys Plate; Paudi O\u2019Loughlin (Clarecastle) bt Ultan O\u2019Neill (Tuamgraney)
U15 Boys Cup; Brian Philbin (Tuamgraney) bt Alex Davy(Kilkishen)
U12 Boys Shield; Coley Sweeney (Clarecastle) bt Fionn Hennessy (Toonagh)
U12 Boys Division; Benjamin Doherty (Newmarket) bt Liam McMahon (Kilkishen)
U12 Girls Shield; Sophie Lynch (Toonagh) bt Lauren Shannon (Toonagh)
U13 Girls Shield; Aoife Vaughan (Clarecastle) bt Brighid Felle (Clooney)
U14 Girls Cup; Ellen Keogh (Clarecastle) bt Beibhin Slattery (Clarecastle)
U14 Girls Shield; Elisa Kidney (Tulla) bt Orla O\u2019Connor(Toonagh)
U12 Boys Cup; Jack Hogan (Tulla) bt Hugh Donnellan (Kilkishen)
U14 Boys Plate; Jack Casey (Toonagh) bt Rian McNamara(Kilkishen)
U15 Girls Shield; Leah Reilly (Clooney) bt Leah Quinn(Clooney)<\/p>\n
Munster Championship Fixtures
Thursday March 19 at Liscarroll Commencing 8pm
Ladies Junior B Doubles semi-final: Cork (Brid Horgan\/Anna Dunne) v Clare (Ellen Collins\/Emma Considine)
At Tuamganey Commencing 8:00pm
Master B Doubles final: Clare A (Shane Walsh\/Mike Baker) v Cork A (Jonathan Lucey\/Tim Breen)
Friday March 20 at Tuamgraney, commencing at 6.30pm.
U21 Doubles final: Cork (Cian Dunning\/Hayden Supple) v Clare (David Considine\/Mici Sheedy)
U18 Doubles final: Clare (Sean Considine\/Eoin Shanahan) v Clare (Cathal Noonan\/Jack Browne)
At Cappagh Commencing 7:30pm
Intermediate Men\u2019s Doubles final; Tipperary (Rory Grace\/Jerome Cahill) v Clare (Sean Coughlan\/Niall Bolton)
Monday March 23 at Kilkishen Commencing 8pm
Ladies Junior Doubles final: Clare (Orla O Brien\/Niamh O Brien) v Clare (Chloe Philpott\/Fina Close)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLARE CREATED handball history by claiming both the mens and ladies Al-Ireland minor titles last weekend. In achieving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[160667,160668,160669,160670,61,60,160671,43,160672,160673,160674,160675,114324],"class_list":["post-353371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-claire-minogue","tag-clooney-quin","tag-david-considine","tag-diarmaid-nash","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jim-cleary","tag-news","tag-seanie-doyle","tag-shane-walsh","tag-tony-leyden","tag-tuamgraney","tag-tulla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}