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TWO excellent goals from the skillful Cathal McInerney helped Clare to a merited win over Limerick in the opening round of the Munster U-21 Football Championship at the Gaelic Grounds on Wednesday. The win means Clare will travel to Cork to play the Leesiders in the provincial semi-final on Wednesday, March 28.

A LONG-hidden green, white and gold tricolour dating from the War of Independence has been discovered in West Clare. It was concealed for over 90 years in a sealed-up recess in the chimney breast of an old house in Mount Scott, near Mullagh.Built in the 1880s, the house is the ancestral home of the Lynch family and the flag was discovered by Jim Lynch during recent interior refurbishments. There had been some speculation within the family over the years that the flag might be hidden somewhere in the walls of the house but the subject was never discussed by the older generation and its emergence from the secret hiding place caused great surprise and excitement.Its reemergence from a 92-year-old concealment has revived long-lost memories of the War of Independence in the local area and the Lynch family’s involvement in it. The central character in the history of the flag is Matthew Lynch, around whose coffin it was draped when he …

ÉIRE Óg won their first game of the U-16A championship when they comprehensively defeated Ennistymon 4-12 to 0-6 in their return game. A week earlier, Ennistymon had beaten the Ennis team.

THIRTEEN might be unlucky for some, but hopefully not for Joe Reid from Inch. Joe has been chosen to take part in this Saturday’s Winning Streak show with the chance to win a whopping €500,000.He will be the 13th contestant to have purchased his winning ticket from O’Dowd’s convenience store in Ennis.O’Dowd’s on the Turnpike Road has been dubbed one of luckiest shops in Clare. The store has seen not only 13 Winning Streak winners but also three lotto winners, including the €2 million Bredin syndicate.Joe told The Clare Champion he isn’t worried about the so-called unlucky number. He said, “I’m not at all superstitious. It’s all the same to me, it’s just a number.”He has asked his daughter Rosemarie to take his place on the programme and said he has no plans for any of his potential winnings. “Sure anything I win I’ll be delighted with. It will all go to my family anyway.”He said he had no idea …

A request from Miltown St Joseph’s GAA to be allowed host the Clare senior football final in 2012 was turned down.

WHILE most people in the Killaloe Ballina region welcome the proposed construction of the new bridge and bypass road around Killaloe, the compulsory purchase of property process is one that gives rise to great uncertainty for landowners affected. Many are left unclear and uncertain as to the steps involved in the process and their legal entitlements in the procedures being adopted by the acquiring local authority. People in the Killaloe/Ballina area are not alone in this. Many landowners throughout the country have found themselves in a similar position in recent years, particularly as much land and property was acquired for the construction of our new motorway schemes. Simply put, there is a need for clearer information to be made available to people affected so that they can avail of their full rights to representation and compensation, given the particular circumstances of their case. Every case of property being acquired is different; for some it can involve the severance of their …

The quotation about history repeating itself has many variations, one of which originated with the Spanish philosopher George Santayana who wrote in 1905 that, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it”. In this country you might sometimes wonder if maybe we are doomed to remember the past and then forced to repeat itThere have been many splits away from the original Sinn Féin of Arthur Griffith and his companions, many of which involved issues of principle. Each group then formed their own party with all, of course, claiming legitimacy in their ideals. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Clann na Poblachta, Workers Party and Democratic Left can all claim to have evolved from the original Sinn Féin. You could question whether the Sinn Féin party that sits in the Dáil at present are in fact a direct result of a split. They grew from Provisional Sinn Féin that came about as a result of an attempt to end …