Clare greyhounds in the hunt for Connacht Derby Title
Friday night’s Galway card was dominated by the opening round heats of the Kilcolgan Castle Connacht Derby which carries a €9000 winners prize.
Friday night’s Galway card was dominated by the opening round heats of the Kilcolgan Castle Connacht Derby which carries a €9000 winners prize.
*Declan Downes. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FORMER CLARE selector Declan Downes has taken charge of Ennistymon and Shane Daniels has finalised his Éire Óg management.
*Photograph: John Mangan CONSTRUCTION is underway to deliver high-speed broadband to over 1,600 homes, farms and businesses in the Labasheeda area.
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.
*Gerard O’Neill. KILMIHIL native Gerard O’Neill has recently been honoured with a fellowship by the Irish Photographic Federation.
Eimear Considine. Photograph: INPHO/Evan Treacy KILMIHIL’s Eimear Considine has announced her retirement from rugby at the age of thirty three.
*The jury returned their verdict on Tuesday. A JURY has found a Kilmihil man guilty of the Facebook harassment of a local garda.
*The trial continues on Tuesday. THERE IS NO evidence that a West Clare man accused of harassing a Garda through anonymous posts on Facebook had any grudges against the Gardaí.
*Kilmihil. A KILMIHIL man accused of harassing a Garda through anonymous posts on Facebook repeatedly denied to Gardaí at interview that he had made the posts, a court has heard.
*Messages from the anonymous account were first sent in June 2020. A PRIMARY school teacher and wife of a ‘good Guard’ has told a jury how she was left ‘nervous and scared’ over “nasty” comments made about her husband from an anonymous Facebook account.