Walsh leads home charge as Lahinch hosts inaugural Women’s South championships
ENNIS’ Aideen Walsh will lead the home charge as the first South of Ireland Women’s Amateur Open Championship tees up this weekend.
Day: 24 April 2026
Clare minors get off the mark with Waterford win
*Clare’s Gearoid Madden gets a strike away. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. CLARE’s minor hurlers recorded their first win of this year’s championship when overcoming All-Ireland champions Waterford.
Drug drops happening at bridges under M18 claims Cllr
*Balymacahill. DRUGS are being dropped off by drivers along the M18 to an underneath bridge in Ballymacahill according to a county councillor.
Clare records hottest temperatures of April sunshine
*Lahinch on Friday evening. Photograph: John Sheridan. CO CLARE has recorded the hottest temperatures in the country in a long overdue spell of nice weather.
Trump Doonbeg unable to restore conditions for tiny snail
*Photograph: Arthur Ellis. OPERATORS of the five-star Trump Doonbeg resort in Doonbeg have stated it is beyond their control to restore the favourable conservation status of the tiny EU protected snail, Vertigo Angustior on site.
‘All of our trips to Cusack Park are testing’ says Kerry’s Geaney
*Paul Geaney. Photograph: David Fitzgerald / Sportsfile THREE-TIME All-Ireland winner, Paul Geaney said Kerry teams never get it all their own way when travelling to Cusack Park and admitted their objective at the beginning of every year is always to win the Munster championship.
Clare & Kerry name sides for Munster semi-final
*Ikem Ugwueru moves to centre forward for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. TEAMS have been named for the Munster SFC semi-final between Clare and Kerry.
Marie always remembers Catherine with release of new children’s book
Marie Donnellan. Photograph: Adrian Megahey NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS’ Marie Donnellan has released a children’s book in memory of her late daughter, Catherine.