*Newmarket Celtic’s Kieran Mahony is one of eleven squad members with Munster Junior Cup semi-final experience. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. NEWMARKET CELTIC are aiming to qualify for a first Munster Junior Cup final in four seasons when they meet an Aisling Annacotty side sprinkled with Clare connections.
AN ANNUAL FUNDRAISER dance in memory of Inch woman Anne Maher will be held this Easter Sunday.
*Donncha O’Dwyer. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’S U20 footballers have named an unchanged team for the third outing in this year’s championship but the venue for their tie with Limerick has been changed.
*Graham Shine. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography PROMOTION was the initial aim for Clare’s ladies footballers in Division 3 of the Lidl National League but they came within a whisker of suffering relegation to the bottom tier.
*Crowds on O’Connell Street in Ennis for St Patrick’s Day. Photograph: John O’Neill. A PROMOTIONAL marketing video for Ennis is to be released by Fáilte Ireland while the old Boys NS site may be reopened for parking in efforts to boost business in the county town.
*Shane Meehan gets away from Conor Grooke. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’S hurlers will look to capture their first piece of silverware this weekend when taking on Dublin in the Allianz National Hurling League Division 1B final.
*Nnabuike Nneji gets his head to an Avenue Utd corner. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. AVENUE UTD and Newmarket Celtic have progressed to the third round of the FAI Junior Cup.
*Mark Rodgers. Photograph: Sam Barnes / Sportsfile. COMPETITION for places in the Clare hurling team has created an uncomfortable but healthy environment within the panel according to one of the side’s leading marksmen.
*Photograph: Natasha Barton HUGE CROWDS descended to Doora for the official opening of the €20m Banner Plaza on Thursday afternoon.
FLAGMOUNT’s Annie O’Mara will be commemorated this weekend by the East Clare Memorial Committee.