While Clare won’t name the team to face Galway in Sunday’s Round 2 league clash at Cusack Park, the line-up won’t show many changes from the side that disappointed against Waterford two weeks ago.

LONG-time Clare handball official Willie Roche will be the next president of the Irish Handball Association. Last weekend, he was voted in as the president elect and he will take over from Walter O’Connor next year for a three-year term.

THE Rambling House in Kilmurry McMahon hosted Belfast-based Zimbabwean man Cuthbert ‘Tura’ Arutura on Monday night.

Cork 2-10   Clare 1-5 THE ability of the visitors to convert scoring chances was the difference when Cork proved too strong for Clare in the Munster U-16 Championship semi-final at Feakle on Saturday.

THE 52nd West Clare Drama Festival started in Doonbeg last Saturday evening with Brideview Drama Group from Waterford first to take to the stage. The annual festival will conclude on Monday when Cooraclare Drama Group with The Hen Night Epiphany tread the boards.

TO mark the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s 30th anniversary performance of the Brendan Voyage on March 15, explorer and historian Tim Severin made a visit back to the Brendan at Craggaunowen.

IT’S all aboout the club, according to Inagh’s Johnnie O’Rourke who will receive a GAA Presidential award at a function in Croke Park on Friday, March 15.

Ennis 23   Kinsale 22 IN great conditions on a hardened pitch, Ennis played their best rugby of the year and had a well-deserved win against Kinsale in what was their final home league game of the season on Sunday.