2023 Clare news year in review
*Protests in Inch garnered national attention. Photograph: John Mangan WITH the year’s end upon us, The Clare Echo goes through the archives to look at the good, the bad and the ugly from 2023.
*Protests in Inch garnered national attention. Photograph: John Mangan WITH the year’s end upon us, The Clare Echo goes through the archives to look at the good, the bad and the ugly from 2023.
*Aoife Corey. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography A HISTORIC day for Clare rugby will transpire on Saturday as seven young athletes from the Banner will take on the iconic Barbarians in Thomond Park in the red of Munster.
* MUNSTER’S CLODAGH O’HALLORAN PROPOSES TO CHLOE PEARSE. PIC: INPHO/EVAN TREACY IT WAS a weekend to remember for Clare woman Clodagh O’Halloran. After going over for a try in Munster’s victory on Saturday, Clodagh went down on one knee to propose to partner and teammate, Chloe Pearse. And as family and their Munster teammates looked …
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*Kilmihil’s Edel McMahon in action for Ireland. For anyone that knows me well, they’ll know that my two passions have always been politics and sport. So all-consuming are these pursuits that I genuinely am baffled when I meet someone without even a passing interest in either.
Munster’s success in the Vodafone Women’s Interprovincial Championship resulted in a special visitor to an East Clare school in the past week.
*Munster’s Clodagh O’Halloran celebrates scoring a try at Musgrave Park. Picture: INPHO/Brian Reilly-Troy Kilkishen’s Clodagh O’Halloran was named as player of the match as Munster recorded their second bonus-point win of the Vodafone Women’s Interprovincial Championship.
With inter-provincial action continuing, Clare’s representation in the Munster ranks remains high.
Five Clare women have been included in an extended 39-woman squad ahead of the Senior Women Interprovincial Championships which take place in August and September.
Ger O’Connell has made seven additions to the Clare senior camogie panel for 2021.
Two Clare families faced off on Sunday’s episode of Ireland’s Fittest Family.