*Sean Withycombe is choked up by Éanna Doyle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Action continued in the Clare intermediate hurling championship (IHC) over the weekend with six of the quarter-finalists vying to win the Paddy Browne Cup now known.
*Éanna Doyle fights for possession as Gearoid Sheedy looks on. Photograph: James Treacy With three wins from three starts Tubber are through to the quarter finals of the intermediate hurling championship.
Clare farmers are sceptical of new environmental targets set out by the Government which will see the agriculture industry reduce their carbon output by 25%.
*Tubber’s Blaine Earley. Photograph: Ruth Griffin Ogonnelloe caused a big shock in this weekend’s Clare IHC as both St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield and Tubber recorded successive wins.
INVASIVE SPECIES such as Giant Hogweed are “getting out of control” in parts of South Clare.
*Ruan’s Robin Mounsey gets away from Cillian McGroary of Corofin, their paths will cross this weekend. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography ACTION BEGINS IN the Clare intermediate hurling championship (IHC) this weekend with games in both Group 1 and Group 2.
*Tubber’s Ronan Monahan. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography Tubber’s intermediate hurlers ended a ten year spell without silverware when they defeated Parteen in a high scoring division 2 hurling league final at Clarecastle on Tuesday evening.
*Photograph: Eamon Ward Clare TD, Cathal Crowe (FF) has taken up a new position as a sitting member of the Oireachtas Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
MAJOR TRAFFIC disruption has been reported in South Clare following the collapse of a road at Shannon Banks.
IMPROVED SAFETY MEASURES on the approach to Parteen village have been sought.
