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.
Eimear Considine
Eimear Considine calls time on rugby career
Eimear Considine. Photograph: INPHO/Evan Treacy KILMIHIL’s Eimear Considine has announced her retirement from rugby at the age of thirty three.
Kilmihil’s Considine drafted into Irish squad
*Eimear Considine. KILMIHIL’s Eimear Considine has been called up to the Irish women’s rugby squad for next week’s Test with Australia in Belfast.
Dean Ryan’s return a further boost for Éire Óg
*Dean Ryan kicking a point for Clare. Photograph: Martin Connolly ÉIRE ÓG’s bid to win three Clare SFC titles in a row has been strengthened by the return of Dean Ryan to the club.
EOIN NEYLON: We need to push on 20×20 campaign
*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.
Kilmihil’s Eimear Considine to be part of Irish broadcasting history on TG4
*Eimear Considine. Photograph: Sportsfile A Kilmihil woman will be part of a first for Irish sports broadcasting this weekend.
Kilmihil to begin defence of county title
In a first for Ladies Football in Clare, Monday night championship action begins this week with the start of the senior campaign.
Female panel event to mark Nollaig na mBan
A second Nollaig na mBan all-female panel will gather in Ennis this Sunday.
Christmas countdown to begin with switching on of Ennis lights
Christmas lights will be officially switched on in Ennis this Friday marking the countdown to the festive season.
‘We’re a small little village with committed girls’ – Kilmihil ready for Munster final
*Ellie O’Gorman. Photograph: Ger O’Neill It has been a whirlwind three weeks for the parish of Kilmihil in West Clare and if today goes to plan, there will be plenty of excitement to shorten the autumn evenings.
