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THEY’RE a superstitious lot in Bal- lyvaughan and Fanore. They don’t pose for team photographs until they have a cup. It means there won’t be a photo of Ballyvaughan’s first senior team until they have Jack Daly.
It’s a dreamy notion for sure, but it doesn’t stop the Ballyvaughan boys dreaming. And, one more dream came to life in Ennistymon on Sat- urday night when they shocked 2006 champions Eire Og with a stunning second half comeback that sent shockwaves around Clare football
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The news was greeted with gasps of amazement at games in Kilmihil and Miltown Malbay — Clare football had been turned on its head by Bal- ly vaughan, a club that haven’t basked in the senior football limelight since Fanore’s Paddy O’Donohue played for the county in the 1917 All-Ireland or Sean Mac Néill O’Loghlen and a few others were on the Liscannor team that won the 1940 champion- abhor
The thrill of it all was summed up by manager Pat Costello afterwards. “It was brilliant to beat Eire Og, it’s
hard to describe really how it feels,” he said. ““We didn’t know what to ex- pect going into this game — we had a few injuries and only had 18 togged at the start of the game, while they had 33 or 34. That’s the difference, but we got on with it and got a few VOLO Kem HOMO mi CoscmOlt OMAN CCMOE:NA “Beating Eire Og is bigger and better than beating Cusack’s in last year’s intermediate final. It’s huge for us. People said we’d go straight back down to intermediate. There were even people in our own parish who said we were only a junior team, but we proved them wrong with this
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“Scoring 2-10 in senior football is a great achievement. A lot of senior matches are won in Clare with scores a lot lower than that. We knew we were capable of this — we knew we were fit enough to play for 60 min- utes and had made our mind up be- forehand that we were going to play for the football for the 60 minutes. Ost lmcm Wier: MW iomenlen
“We were slow enough to get go- ing in midfield, but once we got to erips there Eire Og couldn’t stop us going forward. We deserved it and it’s a huge boost for the club and our
first ever adult win in Ennistymon,” he added.
With that it was time to repair to Logue’s Lodge in Ballyvaughan, where the Talty Cup they won in last year’s ‘Battle of the Burren’ with Michael Cusack’s for the intermed1- ate title was filled one more time.
The Jack Daly race had started with a big bang. A very big one at that.