Ennis tuning up for return of Trad Fest
*Sharon Shannon is among the musicians performing for Ennis Trad Fest 2024. ENNIS TRAD FEST is tuning up for its thirtieth year.
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‘Every game especially at my age that you win is sweet’ – delight for Daniels as Éire Óg regain Jack Daly
*Shane Daniels and the Éire Óg players in the pre-match parade. Photograph: Mike Brennan WITH five senior championship medals now to his name, Shane Daniels has the distinction of keeping a clean sheet in both finals that he has lined out in goals for.
Postmaster warns ‘tsunami is coming’ for post office closures in Clare
*Tom O’Callaghan. A CLARE POSTMASTER has warned that there could be “a tsunami is coming” regarding the potential closures of post offices across the county.
Delight for Dean to collect Clare SFC medal that was 17 years in the making
*Éire Óg’s Dean Ryan. Photograph: Mike Brennan THERE WAS an extra sense of delight with Éire Óg lifting the Jack Daly on Sunday as it marked the first senior championship won by ex Clare footballer Dean Ryan.
Favourites tag didn’t faze Éire Óg – Cooney
*Gavin Cooney offloads the ball as Daryn Callinan gives chase. Photograph: Mike Brennan LABELLED as favourites before a ball was kicked in this year’s Clare SFC, Éire Óg didn’t pay much heed to the tag according to their goal scorer from Sunday’s county final win.
The Water Break: Towns of Ennis & Shannon triumph in football finals & Peter Keane to be proposed as Clare boss
*Éire Óg players Philip Talty, David McNamara, Darren O’Neill and Ronan Lanigan celebrate. Photograph: Mike Brennan ENNIS AND SHANNON is the home of the senior and intermediate football champions.
Official opening of state of the art county library will be ‘a momentous occasion’ for Clare
CLARE’S new state of the art county library is nearing completion and is scheduled to open its doors to the public in two weeks.
Champions Éire Óg based everything off workrate says winning captain Fitzgerald
*Éire Óg captain Aaron Fitzgerald. Photograph: Mike Brennan EVERYTHING THAT Éire Óg’s footballers did in 2024 was based on workrate, said winning captain Aaron Fitzgerald.
Philip’s double hole in one sparks great celebrations
*Philip Brigdale. FOR ANY golfer, professional or amateur, holes in one are rare so when one is recorded it leads to great celebrations.
Stories of yesteryear recalled at special de Valera library event
*County Librarians – former County Librarian Noel Crowley joined current County Librarian Helen Walsh at the Memories of De Valera Library 1975-2024 event LIBRARY users together with past and present staff of Clare County Libraries gathered to recall stories of de Valera library.
