Saturday 23rd April
Tulla 1-15, Sixmilebridge 0-10
Philip Brennan, John Brennan, Sean Torpey, John Fahy, Donnacha McNamara, Mark Quinn, Cian McInerney, Brian Lynch, Darragh Corry, Kieran Brennan, David McInerney, Trevor Vaughan, Aiden Lynch, Andrew Quinn, Danny O'Halloran.
Subs: Raymond Stewart for Vaughan, Paul Lynch for M. Quinn (inj.), Michael Murphy for D.McInerney, Cathal Dinan for K.Brennan.
Senior Championship v O'Callaghan's Mills at Cusack Park
Sunday 15th May
Tulla 1-14 O'C Mills 1-8
Philip Brennan, Eugene Cooney (c), Sean Torpey, John Brennan, Cian McInerney, Mark Quinn, Paul Lynch, Cathal Dinan, Conor O'Halloran, Eanna Torpey, Darragh Corry, David McInerney, Aiden Lynch, Andrew Quinn, Danny O'Halloran.
Subs: Michael Murphy for E. Torpey, Raymond Stewart for Dinan (inj), Donnacha McNamara for M. Quinn.
Brian Lynch failed fitness test on Friday evening (hamstring), Kieran Brennan dislocated shoulder in Cup game v Clarecastle.
(HT Tulla 1-7 O'C Mills 0-3) Tulla played with stiff breeze in opening half.
Clare Champion report
Soft goal swings game for Tulla, Peter O'Connell, 19th May 2011
From Tulla’s viewpoint they won’t worry about the fact that they didn’t hurl with real verve or quality. In a first round game, achieving a result is paramount and they were well worth their win, even if the game itself wasn’t up to much. The defining score was struck in first half injury time. Conor O’Halloran directed a shot from around half way towards the O’Callaghan’s Mills goalmouth. Unfortunately Mills goalkeeper John Cooney allowed the ball to slip from his grasp and over the line. There wasn’t even time for the puck-out. Tulla had the wind in the opening half and now led 1-7 to 0-3. If that lead had just been a four-point one, the Mills would have been convinced that they could have taken Tulla with the wind behind them.
It’s instructive to note that both halves featured two wides apiece before either side scored.
The first half frees from which Andrew Quinn hit three points were all won by Danny O’Halloran, who could have goaled from one if advantage had been played. Later in the half O’Halloran won another pointed free off Gerry Cooney but it looked that time as if the Tulla man had committed the foul and not the Mills corner-back.
Aidan Lynch struck two of his four points from play in the opening half, while Cathal Dinan and Andrew Quinn with three frees and one from play, completed their total. Quinn’s point from play was set up by a superb Darragh Corry diagonal ball.
Adrian Flaherty with two frees and Gary Neville, pointed the losers’ three first half scores. Flaherty missed an easy seventh minute free while James McMahon hit a poor wide seven minutes from half time.
The Mills upped their game somewhat after half time, putting over three points from Gary Neville, Declan Donovan and Pat Donnellan. Now just 1-7 to 0-6 and with the wind behind them, they looked as if they might open up. Instead Tulla notched four points inside seven minutes to establish a 1-11 to 0-7 lead. Gary Neville scored again for his side in that spell.
Five minutes from time Alan Duggan goaled for The Mills after Philip Brennan had saved smartly from James McMahon. However his clearance was under hit and fell to Duggan who netted.
Now just four points adrift, could O’Callaghan’s Mills test Tulla’s fibre? It didn’t happen. Instead Danny and Conor O’Halloran struck three points between them and that was that.
Tulla play Clarecastle in two weeks, while The Mills needn’t worry about championship hurling for three months.
Aidan Lynch was the best forward on the field, while the Tulla defence were very solid generally. David McInerney and Darragh Corry also showed some nice touches and plenty of potential in the Tulla attack. Gary Neville worked very hard for The Mills who didn’t display sufficient championship bite or resolve.
| Physicality gives Tulla edge |  |  |  |
| Written by Seamus Hayes and Dan Danaher |
| Thursday, 02 June 2011 12:27 |
| CLARE SENIOR HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP GROUP 3 Tulla 1-13 Clarecastle 0-10  TULLA'S superior physical strength proved too much for Clarecastle in a hard-fought tie that produced two sending-offs at Shannon on Saturday. While Clarecastle will point to a number of bad misses at a period in the second half when just a point separated the sides, overall, Tulla were the stronger side and deserved their victory.The result has put the East Clare side in a strong position to make it to the play-offs while Clarecastle’s chances of making it through are now very slim. There were times when this tie threatened to boil over as tempers flared on a few occasions. An off-the-ball incident in the eighth minute let to the dismissal of Tulla’s Danny O’Halloran on a straight red card. Play was held up for three minutes as Ollie Plunkett received attention. He was shown a yellow card arising from the same incident. Eanna Torpey’s protests arising from the same incident earned him a yellow card. Tulla made the better start and took a two-point lead before they were reduced to 14 men. Clarecastle’s first score came in the 14th minute from Dara Moloney but Tulla responded with points from Andrew Quinn (free) and Aidan Lynch to lead by three at the end of the first quarter. Clarecastle hit their best spell after this and points from Tyrone Kearse (2), Derek Quinn and Dara Moloney had them in front with five minutes remaining in the half. Tulla were awarded a penalty for a foul on Darragh Corry but Aidan Lynch’s effort was saved. However, they finished the half strongly and five points from Andrew Quinn (two frees, two 65s and one from play) left them four clear at half-time when the score was 0-9 to 0-5. Clarecastle were dealt a huge blow just before the break when Derek Quinn was red-carded. They returned with Conor O’Gorman in their attack and the teenager caused problems for the Tulla defence in the third quarter. With both sides down to 14, The Magpies were now operating with a two man full-back line and this led to their decision to move Stephen O’Halloran to the attack. Points were exchanged twice in the opening 10 minutes of the half before three in a row for Clarecastle left the minimum between the sides with 13 minutes to play. At the turn of the final quarter Tulla won another penalty and, again, it was Darragh Corry who was fouled. This time, Andrew Quinn was the taker but his effort was well stopped by Donogh Murphy. Clarecastle had a couple of chances to draw level around this time but Tyrone Kearse was wide with a few free attempts. After a 14-minute gap, Cathal Dinan pointed for Tulla and Corry followed with another before, in the final minute of normal time, Corry sealed victory when he fielded well and crashed the ball to the net for the game’s only goal. Impressive for the winners were Paul and Aidan Lynch, Darragh Corry, the Torpeys and Andrew Quinn while Fergus Ryan, Danny Scanlan, Dara and Seanie Moloney and Stephen O’Halloran worked hard for Clarecastle. Tulla: Philip Brennan; Eugene Cooney (capt), Sean Torpey, John Brennan; Mark Quinn begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Paul Lynch, Cian McInerney; Cathal Dinan, Conor O’Halloran; Eanna Torpey, Darragh Corry, David McInerney; Danny O’Halloran, Andrew Quinn, Aidan Lynch Subs: Michael Murphy for D McInerney (inj, 38 minutes); Ray Steward for Murphy (58 minutes). Scorers: Andrew Quinn (0-7, 2 65s, 3f; Darragh Corry (1-1); Aidan Lynch (0-3); Cathal Dinan, Danny O’Halloran (0-1) each. Frees: 9; Wides: 8; 65s: 2 Bookings: Eanna Torpey (12 minutes); Ray Stewart (60 minutes). Sent off: Danny O’Halloran (11 minutes) “They have good forwards and five of the six would have played for Clare at some level and we knew that we had to put pressure on them to cut down their scoring chances.” Jim McInerney, Tulla manager. Clarecastle: Donogh Murphy; Seanie Moloney, Stephen O’Halloran, Ollie Plunkett; Fergus Ryan, Patrick Kelly, Eric Flynn; Tyrone Kearse (capt), Danny Scanlan; Darragh Moloney, Ciaran O’Dwyer, Jonathon Clancy; Eamonn Callinan, Derek Quinn, Aaron Considine. Subs: Conor O’Gorman for O’Dwyer (half time); Gary Farmer for Callinan (58 minutes). Scorers: Tyrone Kearse (0-5, 4f); Darragh Moloney (0-2); Derek Quinn, Eamonn Callinan, Conor O’Gorman (0-1)each. Frees: 12; Wides: 12 Bookings: Ollie Plunkett (11 minutes); Eamonn Callinan (17 minutes); Eric Flynn (60 minutes). Sent off: Derek Quinn (35 minutes) “They were physically stronger and we weren’t able to match that. We also missed scoring chances at vital times and particularly in the second half when there was only a point between the teams.” Kenny Morrissey, Clarecastle manager. Referee: Seanie McMahon, Newmarket |
