*Cllr Joe Cooney, Pat Breen, Cllr Mary Howard, Dr Tom Nolan and Madeline Taylor-Quinn. Photograph: John Mangan COMPETITION among Fine Gael candidates in Clare has been welcomed by the Taoiseach with frustration bubbling beneath the surface over a map that is keeping certain parts of the county out of bounds.
*Fr Joe McMahon. TWO OF Clare’s most prominent priests have died this week.
A MORE THAN five fold increase in users of the TFI Local Link Bus passengers has been recorded in the space of two years.
*Michael Neylon. Photograph: Natasha Barton. MICHAEL NEYLON has announced his resignation as manager of the Clare U20 football team.
*Peter Keane. PETER KEANE will be proposed as the next Clare senior football manager at the November meeting of the County Board.
*Amy Lenihan. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography THERE WILL BE A strong Miltown Malbay support in Sunday’s ladies football final but not for the neighbouring Kilmurry Ibrickane parish.
*Noelle Walsh. A WEST CLARE woman covered her boyfriend “head to toe” in paint and also damaged his car and his sister’s car with the same beige paint on Christmas morning in a row sparked by repeated egg throwing incidents at the woman’s home.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ALL INTERVIEWS have been held with a decision imminent on who will become the next Clare senior football manager.
*Gordon Kelly gets away from Shane Hickey. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A MONTH of a break between games in the Clare SFC managed to zap the momentum of St Joseph’s Miltown as they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
*Lus na Sli. CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL have confirmed they are not the registered owners of green areas in the Lus na Si housing estate in Miltown Malbay.
