Clare Echo’s 2024 sporting awards
WITH HIGHS and lows aplenty throughout the sporting year, it’s been twelve months to remember on and off the field with plenty of competition for the sought-after Clare Echo sporting awards.
WITH HIGHS and lows aplenty throughout the sporting year, it’s been twelve months to remember on and off the field with plenty of competition for the sought-after Clare Echo sporting awards.
*Alan Sweeney & Donie Garrrihy celebrate winning the 2019 Clare IFC title while speaking to Seamus Hayes. Photograph: Willie O’Reilly (Burren Eye Photography) CONCERN for a number of GAA clubs in West and North Clare came to the fore again at the weekend as the race for this season’s under 21 championships commenced.
Jonathan Clancy in action for O’Cuirry’s. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CARRIGAHOLT, Cross, Doonaha, Kilkee and Querrin has been shook to the core following the sudden and untimely death of teenager, Jonathan Clancy.
*EV charging points. CLARE needs to be more plugged in when it comes to installing electric vehicle charging points.
*Cillian Brennan is challenged by Eoin Troy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLONDEGAD moved a step closer to what they hope will be a return to senior status when they overcame O’Curry’s in the first of the TUS intermediate football championship quarter finals played on Saturday afternoon.
AN ELDERLY MAN in Carrigaholt had to wait two and a half hours for an ambulance to arrive after sustaining an injury earlier this month.
Davy Byrne flies into the air for O’Currys. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill O’CURRYS are back in the quarter-finals of the Clare intermediate football championship after shaking off the challenge of Coolmeen in their play-off to make the last eight.
*Cillian Gavin claims the ball in the air for Clondegad. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SEVEN of the eight quarter final places in the TUS Clare intermediate football championship have been filled with the remaining spot resting between O’Currys and Coolmeen who will meet on September 14/15.
*Dean Devanney. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography IT has long been claimed that the intermediate football championship in Clare is one of the most difficult to win.
*Darragh Bolton of Kilrush gets away from Wolfe Tones’ Dean Devanney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FRIDAY evening will see the first ball kicked in the TUS Clare intermediate football championship as the door to secure promotion to the top tier swings ajar.