*St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield manager, Donagh Vaughan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. BEATEN CLARE SFC finalists St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield will return with the same management for 2026 in their bid to reach the summit of club football in Clare.
Jonathan Keane celebrates winning the South of Ireland Men’s Amateur Open Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Ben Brady AS the 2025 sporting seasons draws to a close, the keenly contested and eagerly awaited Clare Echo sporting awards return.
*Finnangh Junction. REPORTS of incidents and near misses have been common place for decades at Finnangh Junction linking Ennis to the Quin Rd but an increase in vehicular traffic has also been reported since the opening of the nearby Banner Plaza.
THE Doora Charity Tractor Run has announced that it has raised more than €70,000 in the last decade.
SCHOOLS across Clare and Galway have been asked to come together this December to help twelve year old Cillian O’Brien on his road to recovery.
*Fionn Kelleher. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. WITH SUCH a large provisional panel in place, Clare’s footballers were eager to impress when they took to the field against Galway on Thursday night.
*Ballaghboy. ENNIS politicians have said they are “duty-bound” to highlight the dangers for ‘unsupervised Traveller children’ who are at risk of an accident due to the absence of a footpath from the Quin Rd to the Ballaghboy site with principals describing it as “an accident waiting to happen”.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley MULTI-MILLIONAIRE Pat McDonagh has said the long-running battle to open The Banner Plaza has been one of the most challenging projects of his career.
*Eoin O’Regan loses his hurley on the attack for Éire Óg. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CRATLOE, Éire Óg, Inagh/Kilnamona and Sixmilebridge have qualified for the semi-finals of the U21A hurling championship.
SUPERMAC’S have opened the Banner Plaza on the outskirts of Ennis.