Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship

For the football equivalent, see Clare Intermediate Football Championship.

Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship

Irish| Craobh Idirmhéanach Iománaíochta Co. an Chláir
Founded| 1927
Title holders|  Corofin (3rd title)
Most titles|  Broadford (8 titles)

The Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier hurling teams in the county of Clare in Ireland.

The series of games are played during the summer and autumn months with the county final currently being played at Cusack Park. The championship includes a group stage which is followed by a knock-out phase for the top teams. There is also promotion involving the Clare Senior Hurling Championship and relegation involving the Clare Junior Hurling Championship.

In 2012 it was decided that from 2014 onwards the Clare Senior Hurling Championship would become a single sixteen team championship. This meant that five clubs would lose their senior status and be relegated down to intermediate. However due to the overwhelming success of both the Clare Senior and Under-21 inter-county squads in 2013, the culling of the senior hurling championship was postponed for twelve months. 2014 saw the relegation of Broadford, Doora-Barefield, Ruan, Scariff and Wolfe Tones down to intermediate for the 2015 season.

The 2023 Intermediate Champions were Corofin who defeated Sixmilebridge by 0-18 to 0-14 to win their third title at this grade and return to senior ranks for 2023.

## Format

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### Group stage

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The 16 clubs are divided into four groups of four. Over the course of the group stage, each team plays once against the others in the group, resulting in each team being guaranteed three group games. Two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. The teams are ranked in the group stage table by points gained, then scoring difference and then their head-to-head record. The top two teams in each group qualify for the quarter-finals.

### Knockout stage

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Quarter-finals: The 4 group winners and 4 group runners-up contest this round. A group winner will play a group runner-up of another group. The four winners from these four games advance to the semi-finals.

Semi-finals: The four quarter-final winners contest this round. The two winners from these two games advance to the final.

Final: The two semi-final winners contest the final. The winning team are declared champions and are promoted to the Clare Senior Hurling Championship.

### Relegation

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The bottom team in each group compete in the relegation playoffs and the losers will be relegated to the Clare Junior A Hurling Championship.

### Qualification

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At the end of the championship, the winning club qualify to the subsequent Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship.

## Teams

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### 2024 Teams

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The 16 teams competing in the 2024 Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship are:

Club  | Location  | Colours  | Championship titles  | Last championship title

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Bodyke | Bodyke | Black and amber  | 5  | 1996
Broadford | Broadford | Green and Yellow  | 8  | 2019
Clarecastle | Clarecastle | Black and white  | 1  | 1931
Inagh-Kilnamona | Inagh / Kilnamona | Yellow and Green  | 2 (one each as individual clubs)  | 2005
Killanena | Killane | Blue and yellow  | 1  | 2010
Newmarket-on-Fergus | Newmarket-on-Fergus | Blue and Gold  | 1  | 1967
Ogonnelloe | Ogonnelloe | Black and yellow  | 1  | 1995
Parteen-Meelick  |  |  | 1 (as Parteen)  | 1956
Ruan | Ruan | Yellow and blue  | 5  | 2012
Sixmilebridge | Sixmilebridge | Saffron and Blue  | 5  | 1990
Smith O'Brien's | Killaloe | Scarlet and amber  | 2  | 2021
St. Joseph's Doora-Barefield | Doora / Barefield | Maroon and White  | 4  | 2022
Tubber | Tubber | Black and amber  | 2  | 1976
Tulla | Tulla | Crimson and gold  | 1  | 1979
Whitegate | Whitegate  | Red and black  | 7  | 2013
Wolfe Tones | Shannon | White and green  | 2  | 2015

## Qualification

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At the end of the championship, the winning team qualify to the subsequent Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship.

## List of finals

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### List of Clare IHC finals (incomplete)

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Year  | Winners  | Runners-up

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Club  | Score  | Club  | Score
2024  | Wolfe Tones, Shannon |  | Tubber |
2023  | Corofin | 0–18  | Sixmilebridge | 0–14
2022  | St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield |  | Tulla |
2021  | Smith O'Brien's |  | St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield |
2020  | Scariff |  | Tubber |
2019  | Broadford |  | St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield |
2018  | Feakle |  | Tubber |
2017  | Kilmaley |  | Tubber |
2016  | St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield |  | Broadford |
2015  | Wolfe Tones, Shannon |  | Broadford |
2014  | Feakle |  | Parteen  |
2013  | Whitegate |  | Feakle |
2012  | Ruan |  | Crusheen |
2011  | Éire Óg, Ennis |  | Ruan |
2010  | Killanena |  | Ruan |
2009  | Whitegate |  | Feakle |
2008  | Broadford |  | Sixmilebridge |
2007  | Clonlara |  | Killanena |
2006  | Clooney-Quin |  | Killanena |
2005  | Inagh-Kilnamona |  | Bodyke |
2004  | Smith O'Brien's |  | Clooney-Quin |
2003  | Broadford |  | Feakle |
2002  | Corofin |  | Clooney-Quin |
2001  | Ballyea |  | Sixmilebridge |
2000  | Crusheen |  | Clooney |
1999  | Clonlara |  | Crusheen |
1998  | Kilnamona |  | Inagh |
1997  | Broadford |  | Sixmilebridge |
1996  | Bodyke |  | Clonlara |
1995  | Ogonnelloe |  | Crusheen |
1994  | Cratloe |  | Ogonnelloe |
1993  | St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield |  | Scariff |
1992  | Whitegate |  | Ogonnelloe |
1991  | Corofin |  | St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield |
1990  | Sixmilebridge |  | Cratloe |
1989  | Clonlara |  |  |
1988  | Sixmilebridge |  | Corofin |
1987  | Crusheen |  |  |
1986  | Clooney-Quin |  | Corofin |
1985  | St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield |  |  |
1984  | Whitegate |  |  |
1983  | Wolfe Tones, Shannon |  | Killanena |
1982  | Scariff |  | Killanena |
1981  | Broadford |  |  |
1980  | Kilmaley |  | Cratloe |
1979  | Tulla |  | Cratloe |
1978  | Ruan |  | Clonlara |
1977  | O'Callaghan's Mills |  |  |
1976  | Tubber |  |  |
1975  | Clonlara |  |  |
1974  | Broadford |  |  |
1973  | Feakle |  | Broadford |
1972  | Tubber |  | Feakle |
1971  | Sixmilebridge |  |  |
1970  | Cratloe |  | Smith O'Brien's |
1969  | Bodyke |  |  |
1968  | O'Callaghan's Mills |  |  |
1967  | Newmarket-on-Fergus |  |  |
1966  | No record
1965
1964
1963
1962
1961
1960  | Crusheen |  |  |
1959  | Whitegate |  |  |
1958  | Éire Óg, Ennis |  |  |
1957  | Sixmilebridge |  |  |
1956  | Parteen-Meelick  |  |  |
1955  | No record
1954
1953
1952  | Our Lady's Mental Hospital, Ennis |  |  |
1951  | Sixmilebridge |  | Turnpike  |
1950  | Ruan |  |  |
1949  | No record
1948  | Ruan |  |  |
1947  | Broadford |  |  |
1946  | Bodyke |  |  |
1945  | Éire Óg, Ennis |  |  |
1944  | Ballyea |  | Broadford |
1943  | Cratloe |  | Broadford |
1942  | Whitegate |  |  |
1941  | Broadford |  |  |
1940  | Ruan |  |  |
1939  | Whitegate |  |  |
1938  | Scariff |  |  |
1937  | Cratloe |  | Scariff |
1936  | Bodyke |  |  |
1935  | O'Callaghan's Mills |  |  |
1934  | Clooney-Quin |  |  |
1933  | O'Callaghan's Mills |  |  |
1932  | Bodyke |  |  |
1931  | Clarecastle |  |  |
1930  | Feakle |  | Bodyke |
1929  | O'Callaghan's Mills |  |  |
1928  | Clonlara |  |  |
1927  | Éire Óg, Ennis |  |  |

## Roll of honour

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### By club

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#  | Club  | Titles  | Championships won

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1  |  Broadford | 8  | 1941, 1947, 1974, 1981, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2019[1]
2  |  Whitegate | 7  | 1939 (as Mountshannon), 1942 (as Mountshannon), 1959, 1984, 1992, 2009, 2013
3  |  Bodyke | 5  | 1932, 1936, 1946, 1969, 1996
Clonlara | 5  | 1928, 1975, 1989, 1999, 2007
O'Callaghan's Mills | 5  | 1929 (as Kilkishen), 1933, 1935 (as Kilkishen), 1968, 1977
Ruan | 5  | 1940, 1948, 1950 (with Dysart), 1978, 2012
Sixmilebridge | 5  | 1951, 1957 (as Cappa), 1971, 1988, 1990
8  |  Cratloe | 4  | 1937, 1943, 1970, 1994
Éire Óg, Ennis | 4  | 1927 (as Ennis Rovers), 1945 (as Ennis Faughs), 1958 (as St. John's, Ennis), 2011
Feakle | 4  | 1930, 1973, 2014, 2018
St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield | 4  | 1985, 1993, 2016, 2022[2]
12  |  Clooney-Quin | 3  | 1934 (as Clooney), 1986 (as Clooney), 2006
Corofin | 3  | 1991, 2002, 2023[3]
Crusheen | 3  | 1960, 1987, 2000
Scariff | 3  | 1938, 1982, 2020[4]
16  |  Ballyea | 2  | 1944, 2001
Our Lady's Mental Hospital, Ennis | 2  | 1952
Inagh-Kilnamona | 2  | 2005 (as Inagh), 1998 (as Kilnamona)
Kilmaley | 2  | 1980, 2017
Smith O'Brien's, Killaloe | 2  | 2004, 2021[5]
Tubber  | 2  | 1972, 1976
Wolfe Tones, Shannon | 2  | 1983, 2015
23  |  Clarecastle | 1  | 1931
Killanena | 1  | 2010
Newmarket-on-Fergus | 1  | 1967
Ogonnelloe | 1  | 1995
Parteen-Meelick  | 1  | 1956 (as Parteen)
Tulla | 1  | 1979

### Notes

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* When Ennis Dalcassians won the 1943 Clare Junior Football Championship, they offered an opportunity to players from fellow junior club, Doora-Barefield, to join with them and enter the Clare Senior Football Championship as the Ennis Faughs. They went on to win four senior football titles in 1947, 1948, 1952 and 1954. The Ennis Faughs also won the 1946 Clare Intermediate Football Championship, and the 1945 Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship. The Ennis Faughs disbanded in 1956.

## See also

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* Clare Senior Hurling Championship
* Clare Junior A Hurling Championship
* Clare Under-21 A Hurling Championship

## References

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1. ^ "Broadford Bask In Intermediate Glory". Clare Echo.
2. ^ "The Parish Prevail In Extra-Time Over Tulla To Seal Senior Return". Clare Echo.
3. ^ "Corofin Claim Intermediate Hurling Title For The Third Time". Clare Echo.
4. ^ "Scariff's Intermediate Success Magical Says McKenna". Clare Echo.
5. ^ "Smith O'Brien's Climb Back To Clare Senior Ranks". Irish Examiner.

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