*Clíona McNamara. Photograph: Alan Place GRADUATING with first-class honours and moving to the United States on a prestigious scholarship was all in a day’s work for Scariff’’s Clíona McNamara.
*Mark Rodgers hit 1-13 for the winners. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SCARIFF justified favouritism when comfortably overcoming Corofin by sixteen points to seal their senior status.
*School secretaries on the picket line, Deirdre Madden, Barbara Kearns and Yvonne Enright. VALUED MEMBERS of schools across Clare and the country feel “ignored” by the Government and Department of Education and will stay on strike as long as it takes, a Scariff school secretary has insisted.
A BODYKE hurler is recovering after sustaining a head injury which forced the abandonment of their intermediate championship tie with Whitegate on Friday evening.
*Aidan McCarthy and Aaron Fitzgerald will renew rivalries. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. FOUR excellent quarter-finals are on the cards in the TUS Clare SHC following Monday’s draw for the last eight.
*Kilmaley goalkeeper Bryan O’Loughlin picks up the break. Photograph: Ruth Griffin. KILMALEY maintained their unbeaten run in this year’s championship as they exited the Group of Death in top spot and in a healthy position entering the quarter-finals.
*Kilmaley’s Eoin Enright. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. UNBEATEN KILMALEY have very high competition for places on their starting team with players “absolutely mad” to break into the first fifteen while Scariff are determined to roll over despite the end of their championship aspirations.
*Peter Duggan is tackled by Shane Woods. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. THIRTY one goals were scored across the course of the weekend in the second round of the TUS Clare SHC.
Clare and Scariff hurler Mark Rodgers receives a presentation from GAA President Jarlath Burns. Photograph: Arthur Ellis. LARGE crowds flocked to East Clare for the twenty first Scariff Harbour Festival which proved to be a tremendous success over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
*Contracts for designing the Greenway were signed in June 2021. FUTURE of the Limerick to Scariff Greenway is “in no man’s land”, frustrated elected representatives in East Clare have said.