The Clare team for the county’s first competitive senior hurling fixture of 2013 won’t be named until later this week but quite a number of the panel currently in training won’t feature.

UP to 54 houses in a West Clare seaside resort have been seriously devalued due to a “malfunctioning” sewage treatment plant, residents have claimed. A house at Westpark, Spanish Point sold for €425,000 during the height of the economic boom in 2007 but the current guide price for a house in the estate is €150,000.

St Flannan’s, Ennis 3-7   St Mary’s, Nenagh 2-2 ST Flannan’s captured the Munster Colleges Junior A Camogie title last week when they proved too strong for St Mary’s, Nenagh.  

Bernie Regan, (Wolfe Tones) has been elected  as secretary with the Clare Ladies’ Football County Board. The reconvened AGM was held on Monday in the West County Hotel, Ennis.

OVER 90% of accident and emergency cases in Clare will still be treated in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis, despite a radical change in the delivery of acute services over the coming months.

John Bourke was formally appointed to the Clare ladies’ senior football manager’s position on Monday.

TOURISM in Clare could be one of the main beneficiaries of a new driving route along the west coast, modelled on the Great Ocean Road in Australia and the Garden Route in South Africa.