High-speed connectivity on the way as over 1600 properties near Labasheeda see works commence
*Photograph: John Mangan CONSTRUCTION is underway to deliver high-speed broadband to over 1,600 homes, farms and businesses in the Labasheeda area.
Coolmeen
Top class contests on the cards – O’Connor previews senior & intermediate football semi-finals
*Cathal O’Connor. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. SEMI-FINAL action in the TUS Clare senior and intermediate football championships dominates the action in the local GAA scene this weekend.
O’Currys on their way to Clare IFC quarter-finals
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.
Intermediate championship heats up with seven quarter-final places filled
*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.
Harvest Day celebration at Vandeleur Walled Garden
VANDELEUR WALLED Garden Harvest Day will celebrate Clare’s rural traditions and craft producers on Sunday (September 8th).
Wolfe Tones, Naomh Eoin & Kilrush Shamrocks secure quarter-final spots in Clare IFC
*Wolfe Tones captain Dean Devanney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill WOLFE TONES, Naomh Eoin and Kilrush Shamrocks have qualified for the quarter-finals of the TUS Clare intermediate football championship.
Clare IFC: Tones & Kilrush win as expected, Naomh Eoin stun Clondegad, Cooraclare & Coolmeen prevail while Gaels draw with Ennistymon
*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.
Opportunity beckons as race for promotion begins in Clare IFC – teams profiled
*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.
‘West Clare impossible to predict but Gould on course to gain at Fianna Fáil’s expense’
*Some of the Kilrush LEA candidates at The Electoral Chair election debate. Photograph: John Mangan FIRST-TIME candidate Dinny Gould is on course to take one of the five seats at the expense of Fianna Fáil in the Kilrush local electoral area according to a retiring councillor in West Clare.
Clare must play to their potential to reach second successive Munster final
*Clare’s Daniel Walsh. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill For the first time in over a decade Coolmeen’s Cathal O’Connor won’t be travelling to Fraher Field in Dungarvan on this Saturday as a member of the Clare senior football panel.
