The Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual

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competition organised by the Clare County Board of the

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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

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and relegation involving the

Clare Junior Hurling Championship Clare Junior Hurling Championship is the third-tier hurling competition organized by the Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The competition is confined to clubs organised by Clare GAA. The winners usually will play in the ...

. In 2012 it was decided that from 2014 onwards the

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

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, the culling of the senior hurling championship was postponed for twelve months. 2014 saw the relegation of Broadford, Doora-Barefield,

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and

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down to intermediate for the 2015 season. The 2022 Intermediate Champions are St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield who defeated

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by 0-23 to 1-15 after extra time to win their fourth title at this grade and return to senior ranks for

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Roll Of Honour

* When Ennis Dalcassians won the 1943

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, they offered an opportunity to players from fellow junior club, Doora-Barefield, to join with them and enter the

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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 The Clare Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Clare GAA, Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier football teams in the county of County Clare, Clare in Ir ...

, and the 1945 Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship. The ''Ennis Faughs'' disbanded in 1956.

References

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Roll Of Honour

See also

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