*Tubber’s Ronan Monahan is tackled by Clarecastle defender Cian Galvin. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARECASTLE produced a long-overdue proper championship display to thump Tubber by nine points in the quarter-finals of the Clare Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ÉIRE ÓG emerged two point winners over Kilmaley to seal their place in the TUS Clare SHC final for the first time since 2022.
*Ruan players celebrate following the final whistle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. SHANE PUNCH struck for goal in the final puck of the Clare Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship (PIHC) quarter-final to send Ruan through to the semi-finals for the second year running.
*Conor Cleary and David Reidy will be facing off this weekend. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. FINALISTS in the TUS Clare SHC will be known by Sunday evening with both semi-finals down for decision this weekend.
*Helga Himmelsbach at the location in Ballyvaughan where her husband Jerry O’Connor was killed on his motorbike. Photograph: John Mangan OVER TWO YEARS on from the death of her husband, a North Clare widow has walked from Kilrush to Kinvara to highlight the lack of road safety in the area and has committed to continue …
*Junior Minister, Timmy Dooley speaking in The Armada Hotel. Photograph: Nicholas Higgins. OFFSHORE WIND OPPORTUNITIES for West Clare will not begin to blow until early 2027 at the earliest but its coastline has “a bright future” for development in the sector.
*Éire Óg defender, Ciaran Russell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. A “FASCINATING GAME” is on the horizon with Éire Óg facing Kilmaley in an eagerly awaited TUS Clare SHC semi-final.
*Councillors in the Shannon MD. Photograph: Eamon Ward. PLANS by Transport Minister, Darragh O’Brien (FF) to lift the passenger cap at Dublin Airport is “very bad news” and “very damaging” for Shannon Airport and Cork Airport, the Cathaoirleach of the Shannon Municipal District has said.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill VENUE CHANGES aplenty caused plenty of disruption in the Clare Credit Unions senior camogie championship but it didn’t stop the county’s two dominant sides from sticking to winning ways.
*Harpist Aisling Lyons. A STAR-STUDDED line-up takes to the stage in Ennis this evening (Thursday) with all proceeds going towards delivering vital humanitarian aid to people on the ground in Gaza.