Readers select Clare’s greatest soccer team
Readers of The Clare Echo have chosen what they regard to be the county’s best soccer team of the past three decades.
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Clare Youths ‘learned from mistakes’ to book semi-final spot
*Photograph: Oliver Fitzpatrick Clare’s Youths have qualified for the Inter League Youths Cup semi-finals coming from behind to dethrone All-Ireland champions Limerick.
Strike Sports raising standard of youth skills
NEW research has revealed that some 50 per cent of children under 10 can’t kick a ball properly, 25 per cent can’t run properly and 75 per cent can’t throw a ball properly. A new Clare business named Strike Sports has been established in a bid to buck that trend, in the Banner County at …
Murphy hat-trick sends Tulla through to Clare Cup second round
*Enda Murphy has a shot on goal. Photograph: John Mangan Tulla Utd deservedly booked their spot in the second round of the Banner Carpets and Flooring Clare Cup.
Shannon Town exit Munster Junior following tournament’s longest ever penalty shoot-out
It was one of the longest penalty shootouts to take place in Ireland but it just increased the sense of disappointment for Shannon Town as they bowed out of the Munster Junior Cup.
Moloney worried women’s soccer will suffer in FAI fallout
In a fortnight where positive stories about soccer in Ireland have been few and far between, Chloe Moloney has predicted that if anyone is to suffer from the suspension of Sport Ireland funding to the FAI, it will be the women while she’s also optimistic of progressing her own football career.
Tulla Utd singled out as example for all Clare clubs to follow
Tulla United AFC has been described as an exemplary club by councillors seeking safety improvement works on the club grounds.
Omission from Irish hockey squad was “heartbreaking” for Naomi
*Naomi Carroll. Photograph: Martin Connolly Capped 110 times in international level hockey, Naomi Carroll has represented her country at schools level in soccer while also lining out at all grades for Clare in camogie and ladies football. She blows the term dual player out of the park and sat down with The Clare Echo in …
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