After five years in Kerry, An Post Ras na mBan moves to a new base in Ennis in 2013 for the first time, from where it will take in six stages in five days from September 11 to 15.

THE annual general meeting of the Clare Junior Soccer League, held over a month ago, produced plenty of talking points before delegates voted to adjourn debate on a number of motions.

SPANCILHILL trainer Noel Glynn had a welcome change of fortune when his 16/1 shot Flatfoot Boogie ran out an impressive winner of the corkracecourse.ie maiden hurdle at the Cork Racecourse, Mallow on Bank Holiday Monday.

THOSE found guilty of drugs offences should be electronically tagged in a bid to tackle gangland crime, a local councillor has stated.

STORIES emerging in the national media had identified Clare TD Timmy Dooley as one of Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin’s few confidants within the party. Reports also claimed there is growing dissatisfaction with a perceived secretive approach by the party leader.

EDITORIAL PARENTS were frightened out of their wits earlier this year when an RTÉ documentary highlighted the mistreatment of children at crèches in Dublin and County Wicklow. It set parents wondering if incidents captured on film could be replicated at the crèche or pre-school where their children were attending.Nothing of that nature has been found in Clare.

EVERYWHERE I go I hear people say there is a crying need for a new politcal party in Ireland. This week alone I heard of two new parties being formed with the aim of contesting the next elections. Doubtless we will hear of others in the coming months and weeks.

“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.” Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)