*Monica Callinan with Kilmihil’s Eimear Considine. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography RECRUITMENT OF REFEREES must be a priority for Clare LGFA in the coming year, the departing secretary of the Executive has said.
*Seán Lenihan. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography SEÁN LENIHAN has been returned as Chairman of the Clare Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) while glowing tributes have been paid to Monica Callinan who stepped down as secretary following five years in the role.
Burren Gaels’ Sally King with Kilmurry Ibrickane’s Katie McMahon. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography BURREN GAELS have a wind in their sails with their positive start to life in the top tier of the Clare LGFA senior championship.
*Kieran Harvey. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography A judge has told a GAA referee that there is no exemption from the law for important participants in GAA activities in this country.
*Seanie McMahon (centre) flanked by Newmarket-on-Fergus stalwarts Bob Enright and Pat Corry. NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS’ SEANIE McMahon has been elected as the new referee administrator of Clare GAA.
*Caoimhe Harvey. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Caoimhe Harvey has been named as the new captain of the Clare intermediate ladies football side.
For West Clare captain Caoimhe Harvey, her three sisters Ciara, Shanua and Grainne and the rest of the panel Sunday’s Clare ladies football final will be an emotional occasion.
*Katie Lynn, Sophia & Bernie Regan. Photograph: BurrenEye Photography Tackling the rate of player drop-out in college is one of the most difficult issues facing Ladies Football, a long-serving administrator in the county believes and also warned that player collisions are “like mini car-crashes”.
*Outgoing secretary, Marie-Louise Kaiser. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography Clare camogie remain without a county secretary following this week’s Annual General Meeting.
*Kieran Harvey. Photograph: Willie O’Reilly (Burren Eye Photography) Personnel involved with Ladies Football and Community Games in Clare and further afield have been plunged into mourning following the death of Kieran Harvey after a short illness.
