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For the love of the game

Referee Chris Maguire from the Wolfe Tones club in Shannon departed from the airport on Saturday evening to officiate London versus Carlow in the National Football League. While there is nothing unusual about this what does make it a particularly unique trip is for the very first time travelling referees were allowed to bring their own umpires. In Ruislip on Sunday five Clare men officiated over proceedings with Maguire bringing his trusted umpires namely Frank Mee from the Kilmurry Ibrickane club, Jamie Divilly from Wolfe Tones, Martin Frawley from Kildysart and Cian Collopy from Wolfe Tones. Speaking exclusively to the Clare Champion Chris is extremely proud to be a referee and feels that officiating matches has enhanced his love for all things GAA. ” I’m in my ninth year as a referee and to be honest it’s not something I planned on. I was below in my own club one evening when they had no referee for a Junior match. …

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Caimin comes in to set the Tone for young GAA players

CRATLOE hurler and footballer Caimin Deegan has been appointed as Games Promotion Officer and Athletic Development Officer of Wolfe Tones. The 25-year-old studied Health & Leisure in Tralee for four years, while he has done a lot of coaching in the past. “I was always involved with underage teams in Cratloe, my main one was the under 14 football team. Then I did a lot of Cúl camps as well with Clare GAA,” said Caimin. “Podge Collins and Óige Murphy had their own camp in Cratloe and I’d have been helping out with that as well, so I’d always have had the interest in coaching. I always had interest in both hurling and football as well.” Since his appointment he has been building up links with the town’s schools. “I’ve been to all the national schools here in Shannon, basically doing PE with them, doing hurling and football, also covering their movement, running, jumping and throwing, we’re covering the PE …

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Carrs in the driving seat at Shannon Mr and Mrs event

ANDY and Clara Carr were the winners of the Mr and Mrs fundraising event, jointly run by Wolfe Tones and Shannon Musical Society on Friday. MC for the night was Aodán Fox, and he said it was a great success. “It was a super night, really, really good. There was great support, a great turnout, and the reaction was fantastic. It went down a bomb,” said Aodán. Of the winning couple, he said, “Andy is a former chairman of the GAA club. Clara was a bit nervous about getting up on the stage but they were great. They were voted winners on the night, it went by an audience vote. That’s how we raised the funds, the audience could buy votes. “After the first round we opened up the polling booths and they could buy the votes from them. It was a fun night, a lot of laughs. “There were eight couples, they really got into the spirit of it, …

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Clare GAA star to feature in Shannon Mr and Mrs fundraiser

SHANNON Musical Society and Wolfe Tones are coming together for a fundraiser, which tests how well couples know each other. Entitled ‘Mr and Mrs’, it will be held at Wolfe Tones at 8pm on November 18 and Karen Barrett, chairperson of Shannon Musical Society, said it will be a very fun night. “It’s based on a TV show that was on in years gone by. A couple are brought onto the stage and then one of them is brought away while the other person is asked a series of questions. “The partner comes back and is asked the same questions and hopefully give the same answers! “There’s another round when they’re given a paddle, one side of it is pink and the other blue, they switch it over for the appropriate answer.” Karen said that there are some couples with links to the two organisations. “It’s a bit of fun really and while it’s a fundraiser for Wolfe Tones and …

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‘Mr Wolfe Tones’ memory honoured with memorial tournament

WOLFE Tones held the finals night of its Johnny Cregan Memorial Tournament last week. The hurling tournament for local national schools was organised to help promote the game with young people in the town, and to commemorate Johnny, who was a well known figure within the club for many years. After a blitz day on June 15, the finals night took place last Wednesday. Wolfe Tones Paul Hogan said, “We wanted to get the schools in Shannon engaged in hurling again, and to promote hurling within the town. “The best way to promote is through the schools and we felt that if we had a Shannon schools championship and get every school in Shannon to enter, it’d be one way of getting exposure of it into every school. “We’re going to do the same for gaelic football later on, after the Cumann na mBunscoil has taken place, but we just said that with the Clare hurlers going well we’ll tackle …

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Guilfoyles and O’Connors set Tone for sizzling Newmarket

Michael O’Connor reports from Shannon where Wolfe Tones were wiped out by a hungry Newmarket on Fergus on a score of 3-23 to 3-7 A DEJECTED Newmarket-on-Fergus side left a rain sodden Cusack Park last Autumn shellshocked at how they lost, and a lot of others felt they had squandered a county final place. Well, they are back for more this year and apparently stronger with players back in the fold and newer younger fast-moving hurlers ready to be unleashed later in the championship season. On Thursday evening they dispensed with the ultimately limited challenge of Wolfe Tones in Shannon. Normally in times past this fixture would be one to savour and will be again but not this latest encounter. The O-Connor-powered backline is a collective obstacle that will need to be overcame by any forward sextet that wishes to defeat Newmarket and the placement of Colin Guilfoyle seems at this juncture a wise move. But the emergence of Eanna …

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HURLING: Murphy’s law rules for Tones triumph

U-15C Hurling Championship Final Wolfe Tones 4-13 Crusheen/Tubber 1-11 A dream final for 3-8 hero Sean Murphy greatly aided Wolfe Tones passage to a first ever Under 15C Hurling title in Cusack Park on Monday evening, reports Eoin Brennan. The clinical full-forward was simply unstoppable as the Tones produced a 15 point turnaround over a Crusheen/Tubber side that will rue early missed opportunities and indeed their luck as the ball certainly didn’t bounce their way at key moments early on. Still, in James Costello, the amalgamation had a real leader while Joe Clancy, Oisin McNamara, Osgar Dunford, Peter Farrell and Ian Taaffe did most to stem the tide. The Shannon side’s philosophy was more ‘who dares wins’ and in Murphy, the skilful Niall Fitzgerald, Georgie Pyne, Aaron Shinners and goalkeeper Sean Guilfoyle, they ruthlessly outscored the North Clare amalgamation by 4-10 to 0-04 in the middle 30 minutes of the tie. Such a sea-change is difficult to comprehend as Crusheen/Tubber …

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HURLING: Tone deaf champions march on

Senior Hurling Championship Group 2 Round 3 Sixmilebridge 3-19 Wolfe Tones 0-13 A devastating second half display from holders Sixmilebridge certainly spoiled the home party in Shannon on Wednesday evening, reports Eoin Brennan. The crisp atmosphere and ideal setting demonstrated exactly what supporters have missed since Covid centralised the majority of senior championship fixtures between Cusack Park and O’Garney Park. And for the first-half at least, the teams responded in kind, with a cracking top-of-the-table derby showdown that was level on eight occasions by the 30 minute mark. More of the same was expected for the second period but along the fading light went Wolfe Tones’ challenge as they were unable to sustain the pace, movement and intensity of their opening half efforts and would be duly punished by a ruthless Sixmilebridge. In all, the back-to-back champions outscored their hosts by 3-11 to 0-04 in the final 30 minutes, with incrementally sloppy Tones errors fully capitalised on with three goals …

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