Ruan camp brings out the sunshine
Ruan GAA and Camogie Club held a very successful Summer Camp which saw 102 boys and girls enjoy a great week of hurling and camogie from Monday to Thursday of last week.
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‘We’d do it all over again’ – Arkins & Lynch last living North Clare men with SFC medals hopeful Jack Daly drought will end
*Jack Lynch and John Arkins. Photograph: Joe Buckley NORTH CLARE has been deprived of a visit from the Jack Daly for over seven decades and the last two surviving men from the region with Clare SFC medals are hopeful the drought will soon end.
Race for Clare IHC hotting up
*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.
Winning run continues for Doora/Barefield & Tubber while Ogonnelloe shock Tulla
*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.
Late Pat Henchy will be dearly missed in Ruan & Dalkey
The death has occurred of one of Ruan’s and Clare’s finest hurlers, Pat Henchy.
No major shocks as race for intermediate glory begins
*Conor Tierney was among St Josephs Doora/Barefield’s goal scorers. Photograph: Ruth Griffin The race for the intermediate hurling championship got underway at the weekend with all four scheduled ties going the way of the favourites.
‘Steady decline’ in priests prompts appointment of lay people in Killaloe Diocese
ADDITION OF LAY PEOPLE to the Ministry of Pastoral Care and Ministry of Catechist are among the Killaloe Diocesan appointments announced by the Bishop.
The runners and riders in the Clare intermediate hurling championship
*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.
‘Record-breaking’ Tommy Leahy steps away from CDSL Executive
*Tommy Leahy. Photograph: Natasha Barton A RUAN NATIVE who was only the second Clare man to serve as Chairman of the Munster Football Association has departed his role on the County Executive.
Clare GAA ‘out of tune’ in failure to embrace county’s traditional music reputation – councillors
*The Tulla Pipe Band in Cusack Park on county final day. Photograph: Ruth Griffin CLARE GAA is out of tune when it comes embracing the county’s reputation as the home of traditional music.