*Brendy Rouine congratulates Ikem Ugwueru. Photograph: Ruth Griffin BIG HITS helped Clare to finally get off the mark in the 2026 National Football League, leaving Enniskillen with their first points of the campaign.
*Cormac Murray. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CILLIAN BRENNAN and Cormac Murray return to the Clare football team for Sunday’s fourth round of the National League against Laois.
*David Fitzgerald. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. FIVE CHANGES have been made to the Clare senior hurling team for Saturday’s fourth round of the Allianz National Hurling League against Kildare.
IN AN all-Clare Munster ladies junior singles championship final at the weekend Chloe Philpott overcame Orla O’Brien in a game that went the full distance.
*Orla Brooks. Photograph: Brian Arthur PRIMARY school students from across Co Clare are getting hands-on with robotics as part of a free STEM workshop.
*Flagmount NS. UNNECESSARY worry and distress was caused by initial plans in the Department of Education to cut back on the amount of special needs assistant posts in Co Clare with some schools in the county still “on tenterhooks”.
AN ANTI-SOCIAL behaviour action group has been established for the Ballinasloe area.