*Paul Madden. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. PAUL MADDEN HAS been appointed as the new manager of the Clare senior footballers. He has been appointed on a three-year term at the August meeting of the County Board. His backroom team is to be finalised in the coming weeks. Chairman of Clare GAA, Kieran Keating proposed the appointment …
AN ENNIS based social enterprise will host its first international awareness day next month.
*An artist’s impression of the Ennis Data Centre. A GROUP comprising of three individuals and two environmental organisations is mounting a legal challenge against the planned Ennis Data Centre development, citing serious environmental concerns. The High Court hearing is set for October.
*Shane O’Donnell is fouled. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ÉIRE ÓG have qualified for a tenth successive Clare SHC quarter-final after dismantling the challenge of Wolfe Tones when recording a fourteen point win.
*Éire Óg’s Darren Moroney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill YOUNG PLAYERS are taking their chance with Éire Óg which is strengthening their bid to take spot in Group 3 of the TUS Clare SHC.
ACTION kicks off this Sunday in the first round of the Clare ladies football senior championship.
*Fr Harry Bohan with a copy of The Furrow where he penned a tribute to Bishop Willie Walsh. BISHOP WILLIE Walsh’s loss has been deeply felt in Co Clare with his legacy living on as a man of the people and an extraordinary individual amongst other things.
*Clondegad’s Morgan Garry tries to rescue the ball back from Shannon Gaels’ Dylan Kenny. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. SUCCESSIVE wins for Corofin, Clondegad and Kilrush Shamrocks have sealed their place in the quarter-finals of the TUS Clare intermediate football championship.
*Gavin Murray gets away from Joe Rafferty. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CHAMPIONS ÉIRE Óg delivered another commanding display to secure their passage to the knockout stages of the Clare SFC.
*The sentence was reduced. A JUDGE has jailed a 27 year old Ennis man for asking a mother on Snapchat could he have sex with her two year old daughter.