2019 Liberty Insurance Senior Camogie Championship – Tipperary 2-12 Clare 1-7

Tipperary defeated Clare by 2-12 to 1-7 in the Liberty Insurance Senior Camogie Championship on Saturday July 6th at Sixmilebridge.

📽️📺 VIDEO: Check out the highlights from yesterday's @LibertyIRL All-Ireland Senior Championship Group 2 clash as Tipperary beat Clare! ➡️ https://t.co/TJfKyAungS #GoTogether pic.twitter.com/TpGiuZq90p

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RESULT | A dominant second-half performance sees Tipp pick up their second win of the campaign and move them up to second place in the Group 2 table! @camogietipp 2-12 @ClareCamogie 1-7 #GoTogether pic.twitter.com/t8im9qaYSc

— Camogie Association (@OfficialCamogie) July 6, 2019

Tipperary pulled clear of a four-team logjam in second place in the group with their second win in a week, a very strong third quarter the key in a 2-12 to 1-7 triumph over Clare in Sixmilebridge.

The Premier County representatives began really strongly, responding to an early point by Fiona Lafferty for the home team with Eibhlís McDonnell pouncing for the first of her two goals. The Annacarty attacker followed up with a point – she finished with 2-2 from play – and further minors from Grace O’Toole and Cáit Devane put five between them.

Chloe Morey brought Clare back into it with a goal from a penalty, after Fiona Lafferty was fouled, and a couple of points from Orlaith Duggan left Ger O’Connell’s charges just a point in arrears at the interval, by 1-5 to 1-4.

They didn’t come out at the start of the second half however, Devane hitting four of her six points as the margin grew to six. Morey, who finished with a personal tally of 1-4, steadied the ship but McDonnell’s second goal sealed the deal for Niamh Lillis’s side.

Regal Ryan still the Premier performer as Tipp continue impressive recovery

By Daragh Ó Conchúir

FOURTEEN years after making her debut for Tipperary, Mary Ryan is still one of the Premiers’ prime performers, as illustrated by another tour de force that earned the pocket rocket player-of-the-match honours in her side’s 2-12 to 1-7 Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship triumph over Clare in Sixmilebridge on Saturday.

Eibhlís McDonnell excelled with 2-2 from play for the victors, while Cáit Devane shot six points but having started strongly in opening up a five-point gap, Tipp were on the back foot approaching the break. They lost the influential Karen Kennedy to injury and a Chloe Morey goal from a penalty meant Clare trailed by just 1-5 to 1-4 at the change of ends.

Tipp appreciated the opportunity to recalibrate however and there was little doubt that they would make it a second win in a week once McDonnell netted for the second time.

Ryan, who just missed out on Tipp’s last All-Ireland success in 2004 and was part of the panel that endured defeat in the following season’s decider, hurled up a storm as Tipp ended the weekend in the third qualifying position, with games against Dublin and Meath still to come.

“We had a massive start, we tore ahead in the first 10 minutes but then we fell away and sat back and let Clare back into it” Ryan noted.

“They were always a threat up front so we had a good chat at half-time about pushing on. We knew we were putting pressure on when we took them on.

“At the start of the second half we took that on again and were lucky to get the other goal and I think that’s what helped us see it out in the end

“For us, half-time probably came at a good time. With Karen going off, we were probably a little bit unorganised. We were aware of that ourselves when we went in and it was a case of kind of resetting and figuring out what was out.

“There’s a great buzz there again today. That winning feeling we had last week, great again today to keep that winning feeling going. We lost Orla (O’Dwyer) last week and Karen today and we’re still pushing home so we have to take a lot of positives from that and push on for the next game as well.”

“It is heavy going week after week but we just have to rest up during the week and push on again.”