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ON THE DOUBLE: Eire Og’s Aaron Fitzgerald lifts the Jack Daly and the Canon Hamilton Cups. Picture: Eamon Ward<\/p>\n\n Clare SFC final: \u00c9ire \u00d3g 1-16 St. Joseph\u2019s Doora\/Barefield 2-6\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Almost a century after the Ennis Dalcassians dominated the Clare landscape, their successors \u00c9ire \u00d3g finally brought back the senior hurling and football titles to the capital town following a powerful unanswered finish of 1-8 in Zimmer Biomet P\u00e1irc Chios\u00f3g.<\/p>\n
A historic achievement not garnered since the club\u2019s double in 1929, \u00c9ire \u00d3g required all of that Dalcassians spirit to finally fend off plucky neighbours St. Joseph\u2019s Doora\/Barefield who certainly pushed the champions to their optimum.<\/p>\n
After all, in what was their fourth Clare crown in five years, the Parish proved to be their trickiest opponents having led for over half the contest thanks to a first-half brace of goals through Odhran O\u2019Connell before admirably blitzing the holders once more with a brace of two pointers to soar four clear by the three-quarters mark.<\/p>\n
Crucially, a shellshocked \u00c9ire \u00d3g managed to weather all three storms and in the end, it was their superior bench that essentially turned the tide as substitutes Gavin Cooney, Jack Joyce and Aidan McGrath combined for 1-3 of that 1-8 momentum-fuelled finale.<\/p>\n
ON THE DOUBLE: Eire Og’s Aaron Fitzgerald lifts the Jack Daly and the Canon Hamilton Cups. Picture: Eamon Ward<\/p>\n
Such a remarkable 11-point turnaround could not have been foreseen for the majority of a compelling hour as despite being their first senior final in 13 years, Doora\/Barefield were determined to make the most of their unique opportunity.<\/p>\n
An opportunist goal in only the seventh minute from O\u2019Connell was the settling score required for Donagh Vaughan\u2019s side after Cian McDonough\u2019s effort for a point came back off the upright.<\/p>\n
Ikem Ugwueru didm\u2019t enjoy the same fortune down the other end as his back post flick rebound off the post and wide, having already seen Luke Pyne flash an early shot wide of Tom O\u2019Brien\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n
A Mark McInerney two-pointer and points from Ikem Ugwueru and Oran Cahill wrestled back control for \u00c9ire \u00d3g by the midway mark of the opening half, only to be floored once more when Joe Rafferty offloaded inside to Odhran O\u2019Connell to double his goal bounty and nudge the Parish back in front at 2-1 to 0-7.<\/p>\n
A second McInerney two-pointer, this time from a free from 45 metres, ensured a half-time stalemate at 0-7 to 0-7, with goalkeeper Tom O\u2019Brien coming to his side\u2019s rescue to prevent Ugwueru from rattling the net.<\/p>\n
That seesaw pattern would be maintained into the new half as David McNamara inched the Ennis side into the ascendency in the 33rd minute, only to be grounded by Paddy Bugler\u2019s tenth two-point free of the campaign. Michael Nash then did likewise from play three minutes later on Doora\/Barefield\u2019s way to a 2-6 to 0-8 cushion by the two-thirds mark.<\/p>\n
The champions were rattled but crucially never reached for the panic button as instead manager Shane Daniels kept faith in his squad and emptied the bench to narrative-altering effect.<\/p>\n
Substitute Jack Joyce began the backlash with a superb two-pointer at the turn of the final quarter, the spark that inspired Ikem Ugwueru, Mark McInerney and Ronan Lanigan to complete the comeback and edge the minimum clear entering the final ten minutes at 1-13 to 2-06.<\/p>\n
There would be no such kick from a war-weary Parish who would be powerless to prevent the returning former winning captain Gavin Cooney from finding the net off the bench, with a third McInerney two-pointer and replacement Aidan McGrath putting the icing on the double-winning cake.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for \u00c9ire \u00d3g: M McInerney 0-7 (2tpf, 1tp, 1f); G Cooney 1-0; J Joyce (1tp), I Ugwueru 0-2 each; C Russell, O Cahill, D McNamara, R Lanigan, A McGrath 0-1 each\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for St. Joseph\u2019s Doora\/Barefield: O O\u2019Connell 2-0; P Bugler (1tpf), M Nash 0-2 each; T McDonald, J Rafferty 0-1 each\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n \u00c9IRE \u00d3G: C Howard; D Ryan, A Fitzgerald, M Doherty; C Russell, G D\u2019Auria, R Lanigan; D McNamara, G Murray; O Cahill, I Ugwueru, D O\u2019Brien, M McInerney, L Pyne, D Moroney\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Subs: J Joyce for Pyne (40), J Collins for O\u2019Brien (40), A McGrath for Moroney (47), G Cooney for Murray (50), N McMahon for McNamara (61)\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n ST JOSEPH\u2019S DOORA\/BAREFIELD: T O\u2019Brien; E Thynne, D O\u2019Shea, F Kelleher; E Boyle, C O\u2019Brien, C McDonough; J Curran, T McDonald; O O\u2019Connell, M Nash, L Clune, J Rafferty, T Curran, P Bugler\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Subs: N Hardiman for McDonald (45, inj), D Boyle for O\u2019Connell (50), C Hannan for Clune (55), S Costelloe for T. Curran (59)\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Referee: N Quinn (St. Joseph\u2019s Miltown)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clare SFC final: \u00c9ire \u00d3g 1-16 St. Joseph\u2019s Doora\/Barefield 2-6\u00a0 Almost a century after the Ennis Dalcassians dominated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,1128,61,60,850,112],"class_list":["post-76976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hurling","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76976","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=76976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}