*Newmarket Celtic goalkeeper Shane Cusack was among those to score a penalty in the shootout. Photograph: Joe Buckley NEWMARKET CELTIC have qualified for the semi-finals of the Munster Junior Cup, winning on penalties in Waterford.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley. CRIMINAL ACTIVITY is on the rise in Newmarket-on-Fergus with local residents on edge following a stabbing and the firebombing of a car in separate incidents.
*Mike Kelly. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. NOTED as much for its hurling pedigree as its academic output, St Flannan’s College hopes to record its latest success on the field this weekend.
Jonathan Keane celebrates winning the South of Ireland Men’s Amateur Open Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Ben Brady AS the 2025 sporting seasons draws to a close, the keenly contested and eagerly awaited Clare Echo sporting awards return.
*John Nally, Moira McMahon, Bob Enright, Kathleen McMahon, Ruth Enright, Ellen Curley, Mary Murphy and Cllr Pat O’Gorman (FF). Photograph: Joe Buckley. RESIDENTS of Drumline are clashing with Clare County Council and have taken their case to An Coimisiún Pleanála.
ALL-STAR accreditation has been achieved by one of the region’s leading chauffeur companies.
CLARE trainers continue to reel in the winners, this time it was the turn of Sixmilebridge’s Stephen Murray.
*Liam O’Reilly was among those to oppose the motion. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. FOR THE second year in a row a motion seeking to amend the county bye-law dealing with the regrading of players failed to win the support of delegates.
*Jim Hickey (centre) proposed the motion for Cratloe. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CRATLOE GAA club were accused of delaying a long-running issue with Parteen/Meelick with their attempts to let a player living in another parish line out with the club of their parent.
*The Green in Newmarket-on-Fergus where the GP practice of Dr Colum Hackett was located. REMOVING GP services from the county’s fifth largest settlement is “unfathomable”, Newmarket-on-Fergus’ sole elected member of Clare County Council has said.