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From the Ditch 18/11/08

Joe Ó Muircheartaigh & TJ Flynn

Lohan omen for Clare
Brian Lohan’s ratification as a minor hurling selector for 2009 could be a good omen for Clare. Eamonn Fennessy (Sixmilebridge), PJ Kelleher (Bodyke), Gerry O’Connor (Éire Óg) and Donal Moloney (Scariff) are the other members of the backroom team, but Lohan provides a link to the last time a Munster minor championship was won by Clare. His father Gus was a selector on the minor team that won the 1989 provincial title and contested the All-Ireland. Mike McNamara was manager of the team. Can Clare bridge a 20-year gap?

Munster awards for Clare
THERE will be two Clare award winners at the Munster GAA Awards that take place in the Malton Hotel in Killarney on December 6. The refereeing award goes to veteran Clare referee Kevin Walsh, while Darach Honan has been named minor hurler of the year.

Galtee Gael to Kilmurry
Links between Kilmurry Ibrickane and Galtee Rovers – who they play on Sunday in Quilty in the Munster Club Semi-Final – came flooding back this week in the guise of Kilmurry’s Pat McCarthy.
The Kilmurry native lined out for Galtee Rovers in the early ‘60s after he was stationed in Bansha as a Garda. He subsequently won a West Tipperary championship with the club before returning home to capture a Clare senior championship in 1966.

It’s in Clare, not Limerick
THEY know their county boundary down south east Clare way – maybe because they’re very mindful of the fact that Limerick has had designs on extending its territory further into Clare for many a long year now. That’s why a few people from that corner of Clare were quick to ring From The Ditch this past week to point out that the all-weather facilities being used by Kilmurry Ibrickane in Seanachoil in preparation for their assault on the Munster club championship is in Clare, not Limerick. As one caller put it, “they’ve enough of Clare already”. It so happens that Corbally FC’s pitch is beside Seanachoill, but Seanachoill is in Parteen, Clare not Corbally Limerick. Glad to set the record straight.

Boys of Miltown v All-Blacks
WHAT would Canon Michael Hamilton make of it all - All-Blacks legend Dan Carter trying his hand at Gaelic football in the days ahead of Munster’s clash with the All-Blacks in Thomond Park. We know that the controversial cleric was involved with Ennis Dalcassians when 16 of their members were banned for the crime of watching a Munster Junior Cup game between Ennis and Nenagh in Ennis Showgrounds in 1931. But he was a closet rugby fan at the same time and was chairman of the county board in 1925 when it voted by 19-9 to get rid of the Ban. Back then he took an enlightened attitude to the oval ball game. “Why should the men of Clare be forbidden to compete with the All-Blacks, or any other team. Why, if we put the boys of Miltown against the All-Blacks, they would run them off the field.”
Remember the All-Blacks team of 1925 became known as The Invincables - it was brave talk from Hamilton. Would the Miltown players be as brave in 2008.

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