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Wolfe Tones 2-15 Clarecastle 1-5 WOLFE Tones bridged a 17-year gap when they captured the Clare Féile title at the expense of Clarecastle at Cusack Park on Saturday evening. The Shannon boys carried the favourites’ tag into the final following their win over Kilmaley in the semi-final.The new champions dominated the early exchanges but failed to find the target and when Darren Crowe pointed for the Magpies in the sixth minute, their followers had hopes of a strong performance.Paul Dolan had the ball in the Shannon net seconds later but he was penalised for over carrying. Aaron Shanagher finally had the favourites on the scoreboard from play in the eighth minute. The second score took a further five minutes and it fell to Shannon full-forward, Jack Cunningham despite being under pressure from Clarecastle defenders. Clarecastle’s Dean O Hara had a half chance of a goal straight from the puck-out but his effort sailed narrowly wide.A 16th minute free by Cunningham …

Cork 2-10 Clare 0-11 ANY realistic chance that this doughty Clare minor side had of winning in Pairc Uí Rínn on Wednesday evening imploded when Cork full-forward Stephen O’Mahony netted the home county’s second goal 17 minutes into the second half. That score put Cork 2-7 to 0-8 ahead, leaving the reigning Munster champions reasonably comfortably ahead.To Clare’s credit they didn’t lose hope and kept going right until the end of the 60 minutes. Aside from that killer second Cork goal, Clare will reflect on a succession of second-half wides and the fact that it took them 14 minutes to add to their half-time total.Niall Hickey landed two of Clare’s four second-half points, with Eoin Cleary and William Flynn notching the others. While Clare played some very impressive attacking football in the opening half, Flynn’s point was their only second-half score from play.Clare looked energetic and up for it right from the off and mounted a couple of early attacks. …

THERE is no stopping Clare juvenile handball players as they captured yet another title at the weekend, adding to the previous weekend’s tally of five titles.

THE prayers of Megan Malone’s family have been answered with the parents of the little girl, who left Ireland to receive life-saving treatment in the US, revealing that doctors have told them there is now no evidence of cancer in their daughter’s brain.

ENNIS’S County Boutique held an in-house fashion show recently showcasing its spring/summer 2011 stock. The show was the first of the shop’s celebrations marking 45 years in business.As well as regulars like Linea Raffaelli, Sonia Pena and Betty Barclay, newer brands highlighted as part of the show were Marc Cain, White Stuff and Sandwich.“The response was fantastic. We had about 40 people there on the night and the response we had the next day and over the weekend was really good and it was well worth doing. We just thought we should use the shop, which is such a nice venue anyway, for events,” said Gwen Culligan of The County Boutique.“We promoted the event by texting customers about it in advance. All our customers can be on the database, they just come in and sign up and then we text them when we have news or updates or events. I would say from a business point of view it is …

WAR of Independence historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has written a thought-provoking essay in the most recent issue of The Other Clare, in which he argues that the 1919-21 conflict wasn’t based on sectarianism in the Banner County.

NEIGHBOURS and arch rivals, Sixmilebridge and Cratloe, will contest the final of the U-21A hurling championship following their hard-earned semi-final victories over Inagh-Kilnamona and Newmarket respectively last Saturday. Both losing semi-finalists will rue missed chances and this is particularly true of Newmarket who had a total of 13 wides on the day. Sixmilebridge 1-17 Inagh-Kilnamona 2-12 SIXMILEBRIDGE were the better-balanced side in this semi-final played at Clarecastle but they had to work hard to shake off a determined Inagh-Kilnamona outfit.All six of the Sixmilebridge forwards got on the scoresheet and this proved decisive as just two of the Inagh-Kilnamona attack managed to score on a day when they depended hugely on Niall Arthur for scores. He didn’t disappoint and finished with a tally of 1-10 but the ’Bridge were deserving winners.Points were exchanged twice in the early minutes before the winners opened a two-point gap. A Niall Arthur goal gave his side a one-point advantage but Sixmilebridge captain Shane Golden …