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Time Line In GAA, back-to-back All-Irelands are hard to win. Three All-Ireland senior titles is a great achievement. A run of four in-a-row is a scarce as hens’ teeth and we will have to wait until September to see if the elusive five in-a-row can be done for the first time.

Wild Ways Most of us eat sausages and black puddings for breakfast and we relish a good stew enhanced by titillating flavours. Even our puddings and drinks are made tasteful. Many of these flavours are imported, usually from warmer climes but there must be hundreds that we can grow ourselves.

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ENNIS man Tony Mulvey, who completed 50 years as a journalist with The Clare Champion last year, was honoured by the Clare Association in Dublin on Friday night.

IN nominating Kilfenora Céilí Band leader John Lynch as Clare Person of the Year for 2009, the Clare Association in Dublin showed their regard “for tradition, heritage and history, for ordinary people and small places and familiar things”.So said the well-known Kilfenora man when he addressed the large gathering.“I didn’t grow up playing music. I didn’t have a fiddle or a banjo. There was one fiddle on top of the dresser across from the range. That was my father’s. My aunts, Betty, Noreen and Judith, went to England in 1957 and my uncle, Gerry, went to the States in 1959. When he came back for a visit in 1963, there was a celebration. I was eight and I was on the outside looking in, disappointed that I couldn’t play,” he said.“I remember Sunday mornings, milking the cows before going to mass in Kilfenora and listening to Ciarán MacMathúna on the radio,” Lynch continued. “I remember the céilís in Kilfenora on …

THE collapse of the Celtic Tiger and the focus on the disaster in Haiti has had an unexpected effect on the street children and orphans of Africa. An inability to access help and funding is crippling the efforts of orphanages and rehabilitation centres to help some of Africa’s most vulnerable children.

A politician once said that there was no sex in Ireland until television came on the air and he may have been referring to The Late Late Show. It is the longest running show on Irish TV, on the air since 1962.

  The new year offered a world of new possibilities for nine-year-old Jack Caldwell as he was not only introduced to his very own golden retriever dog but his pet has given Jack a new lease of life.