*Cathal Malone. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S senior hurlers are expecting a defining seven day period in their season when they begin their championship campaign at home to Limerick before travelling to Cork for the second round.
*Joey Rouine charges out of defence for Ennistymon. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography AFTER three rounds in the FutureTicketing Cusack Cup, Ennistymon and St Joseph’s Miltown remain unbeaten.
*Nicole Bujnowska and Hannah Vaughan. FOUR LISDOONVARNA students were among the winners in the John Hooper statistical poster competition.
*Ennistymon’s Tiernan Hogan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill REIGNING CUSACK Cup champions Ennistymon have moved to the top of the table after recording a second win.
*Birgitta Curtin. A €171,000 investment in new equipment and energy efficiencies has been made by Burren Smokehouse.
*The Hydro Hotel received €3,7m for accommodating Ukrainians in 2022. ACCOMMODATION providers in the county are being made millionaires by the State for housing asylum seekers and refugees that are no longer living there, a Clare TD has claimed.
POLLING STATIONS in Co Clare have closed for voting on the Referendums on the 39th and 40th Constitutional Amendments.
*The Auburn Lodge is among the hotels full to capacity with refugees. FÁILTE IRELAND’s accommodation audit for Co Clare has highlighted “a real problem area” in the scarcity of options for visitors to the county.
*Ger Quinlan takes on the role of Ennistymon manager. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill FOUR of Clare’s twelve senior football clubs will have new managers this season.
*Theresa O’Donoghue. A FORMER MAYOR of Ennis has insisted the town’s bus service is on track to be delivered next year while a climate activist has said the public need to be able to visualise such a scheme before buying into the Ennis 2040 Strategy.