There was another historic win for Clare as the 40×20 handball season drew to a close over the weekend with the last of this year’s adult All-Ireland finals.

BOTH Clare Junior Cup semi-finals have been rescheduled for this weekend, which will also see the playing of the Youths Cup semi-finals, which are scheduled for Monday.

Hermitage A 4    Sporting Ennistymon 1HERMITAGE were crowned Division 1 champions at the Fair Green on Sunday when they defeated Sporting Ennistymon.

CLARE Sports Partnership and Clare Athletics Association held race number four in their fun run series in Carron with over 70 competitors participating in the 5km event. With the first (1k) all down hill the leaders went through this point in 3mins.05secs and Eimear Power (Sportsworld) was leading this big field with Michael Shannon (Kilnaboy), Damian Roche (Kilmurry-Ibrickane/North Clare), and Eugene Moynihan (Marian) all in close pursuit.

CLARE jockey Derek O’Connor reached another landmark in his remarkable career when riding his 600th point-to-point winner aboard John Brassil’s 5/1 shot Carrigerry in the first division of the mares’ winners’ race at last Sunday’s Duhallow Foxhounds’ fixture at Dromahane, County Cork.

THE Downes kennels in Killaloe are in with a shout of winning the Connolly Red Mills Produce Stakes in Clonmel on Sunday night next. They have Droopy’s Lennon in trap six for the big final on Sunday night next and hopes are high that he will the cause of celebrations across the Shannon.

CLARE County Council is calling for the National Spatial Strategy to be reviewed in light of increasing connectivity between the cities of Limerick and Galway.

AHEAD of their competitive appearance in the RTÉ Open All-Ireland Drama Finals in Athlone next week, Ennis Players are putting their production up to the scrutiny of Clare audiences in Glór.Ennis Players are competing in the All-Ireland open finals in the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone, which are being held from this Friday to May 8. Their performance of JM Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, will take place next Thursday but they will treat local audiences to a precompetition staging at Glór on Monday and Tuesday. In qualifying rounds, Ennis Players achieved maximum points, putting the players in the top four groups in the country. “This is a remarkable achievement for the group, considering this is the first time we have qualified for the three-act open finals,” Bernie Harten, chairperson of Ennis Players said.Ennis Players are no strangers to success at open level having won the All-Ireland One-Act finals in 2004 with George Fitzmaurice’s The Dandy Dolls. They have …