Avenue regain top spot of Premier Division for festive break
*Avenue Utd’s Mossy Hehir. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill AVENUE UTD will celebrate Christmas and ring in the New Year at top of the table in the Maloney Hardware CDSL Premier Division.
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Crehan & Nash the home favourites as Clare hosts Irish Nationals
*Colin Crehan. COLIN CREHAN and Diarmaid Nash are viewed as Clare’s greatest chance of success as the Irish Nationals take place in the county.
Aer Rianta workers reunite
*Margaret O’Neill, Noreen Hickey, Maura McNamara and Fionnuala Power. Photograph: John Mangan UP TO 120 retired members from Aer Rianta in Shannon gathered at the Inn at Dromoland on Wednesday last.
Scariff Bay launch new soccer podcast
*Tulla Utd’s Éanna Culloo. Photograph: Joe Buckley SCARIFF BAY COMMUNITY RADIO have launched a new soccer podcast.
Community effort stops thief from fleeing Sixmilebridge store
*Cyril Crowe. Photograph: Joe Buckley A COMMUNITY EFFORT has been hailed with stopping a robbery from a Clare service station while increasing criminal behaviour is causing distress across the county.
Labour must return to its roots & start reaching out to families
*Patrick Hogan, right, with former Tanaiste Brendan Corish at an inter parliamentary conference in Dublin in the 1970s. KILKISHEN NATIVE, Patrick O’Halloran feels it is time for the Labour Party to revisit its roots in 1912 to remain relevant in 2023.
‘Clare should not be waiting on pilot in another county’ – wait for pyrite scheme for social houses criticised
*Seamus & Mary Hanley show the extent of the pyrite damage to their home. Photograph: Joe Buckley CLARE should not be waiting on a pilot scheme to be completed in another county before its social housing stock has access to a defective concrete block scheme, a Shannon representative has said.
Historic day as seven Clare stars to line out for Munster against Barbarians
*Aoife Corey. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography A HISTORIC day for Clare rugby will transpire on Saturday as seven young athletes from the Banner will take on the iconic Barbarians in Thomond Park in the red of Munster.
Clarecastle relegated for first time
*Colm Cleary races past Stephen O’Halloran. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clarecastle have been relegated for the first time in their 136 year history after O’Callaghan’s Mills held firm in an expectedly anxious relegation battle in O’Garney Park.
Scariff/Ogonnelloe & Feakle/Killanena seal semi-final spots
*Labhaoise O’Donnell finished with a hat-trick for Scariff/Ogonnelloe. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ENTERING THE FINAL round of the Clare Credit Unions senior camogie championship, title holders Scariff/Ogonnelloe and Feakle/Killanena are among the sides to have booked their place in the knockout stages.
