When every boy and girl enters the school gates for the first time the dream is to always make it to Cusack Park for schools finals in June before they head off for their summer holidays. The atmosphere in the stands in Cusack Park will be electric as the young supporters scream on their heros in the "bigger" classes one day hoping they will be the ones between the white lines on the hallowed turf.
For the boys and girls in 6th class its even more special as it will be the last time they wear the school jersey and represent the school that has educated them for 8 years. It will also be an opportunity to put on a display for their teachers as a form of thanks for all the time they gave to after school activities and for helping them to fulfil their dream of playing in the Park on Cumann na mBunsoil finals week.
And finally its often the last chance to play on the same team with the gang of friends they met in September 2017 when they walked in the school gates, the gang they sat beside in the stands for years shouting on the older boys and girls, the same gang they played blitzes, school leagues, indoor hurling tournaments, 7's competitions with, the same gang they will win or lose with next week and despite the result its the same gang they will have memories for life with.
Schools hurling and camogie is very special so lets all make an effort to get to Cusack Park in Ennis next week to shout on the next generation. Best of luck to all the boys and girls who play for our club involved in the schools finals:
St. Finnachtas NS Sixmilebridge Hurling team under the coaching expertise of Mr. Heagney, Mr. Lynch and Mr. Minogue are building a team for the future and have qualified for the inaugural Academy hurling final which is a development team competition for the younger boys in the schools in Clare. They will face Barefield NS with a 3:15 throw in on Wednesday in Cusack Park.
Kilmurry NS head to the finals unbeaten to date and are in action at 11:15 when they face InisCealtra (Whitegate/Mountshannon). A big thanks to Mr. Donnellan and Mr. Clohessy for the great work they put into preparing the team. Squad: Michael Gilligan, John Donnellan, Ewan Morey, Donncha Heffernan (C), Lorcan Benoit, Fionn O’Brien, Mike Gleeson, Rhys Tuohy, Matthew Minihan, Tom Gleeson, Dan reidy, Kyrylo Zakharov, Frants Ohly, Nazar Rus, Will Slattery.
Clonmoney NS camogie and hurling team will play on finals day on Thursday with a 2pm start for the girls and a 3pm throw in for the boys. Emer Gavin and Matthew Murphy from our underage teams will be playing. A big thanks to Mr. McCormack, Mr. Littleton, Mr. Guilfoyle, Ms. Halpin and Mr. Barry for all their work in training the teams.
St. Senans NS Shannon will be captained by Bridge man Alex Russell as they play in a Shannon Derby against St. Conaires on Thursday morning at 11:15am in the Division 5 final. Thanks to coaches Kate Lynch and Jamie O'Sullivan for all the work in preparing the boys.
WEDNESDAY 11th June 2025 3:15PM Academy Hurling: St. Finnachtas NS Sixmilebridge V Barefield NS THURSDAY 12th June 2025 11:15AM Division 5 Hurling: St. Senans NS Shannon V St. Conaires NS Shannon 1PM Division 4 Hurling: Kilmurry V Iniscealtra (Whitegate/Mountshannon) 2PM Div 2 Camogie: Clonmoney V Inagh Cloonanaha or Crusheen 3PM Div 3 Hurling: Clonmoney V Crusheen or Newmarket
