Doonbeg 1-10   Liscannor 0-3 DOONBEG got their Cusack Cup campaign off to a winning start on Saturday night in Quilty when they proved too strong for Liscannor.

Householders in Killaloe and Ballina, who are subject to preliminary compulsory purchase order notices, are considering their options after An Bord Pleanála ruled the development of the proposed €40m Shannon Bridge Crossing and associated link roads is not likely to have significant adverse effects on the environment.

  A Clare surfer will take his place among the sport’s elite when he head’s to Los Angeles in May in the hope of winning an international award. Peter Conroy, a Clarecastle man living in Miltown Malbay, has received confirmation he is among the top five vying for the World Billabong XXL Ride of the Year (Tube) award. Not only is Peter the only European still in contention for the award, he is also the only part-time surfer in the race for the €5,000 first prize. Roo McCrudden, who recorded Peter when he surfed the wave in Mullaghmore in Sligo back in January, is also in line for a €2,000 prize for the winning photographer. Legendary Hawaiian surfer, Shane Dorian, who has been nominated in all four of the categories revealed earlier this week, provides the main opposition for the Clare man. Peter, who works in the Dublin Fire Service, is a member of both the Irish Tow and Surf …

The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) is to appeal the suspended sentence handed down in the case of a Clare mother accused of cruelly treating eight of her children last February on the grounds of undue leniency.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has come under renewed pressure to restore 24-hour emergency services in Ennis and Nenagh Hospitals in an effort to address the overcrowding crisis at the emergency department in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick.

RESIDENTS in Clarecastle are “living in fear” as feuding factions continue to battle it out in the village.

THE Clare Champion is lending full support to Get Involved, a community initiative that will be the central theme for Local Newspaper Week ’13.

A COUPLE in their 80s were the latest targets of burglars this week, when their isolated farmhouse in Connolly was broken into in the early hours of Tuesday morning.