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Lifford       3    Burren Utd        0 Lifford recorded a much needed win when  they proved too strong for Burren United at Cassidy Park on Sunday.

TWO Clare surfers have been invited to compete against some of world’s best big wave riders in Ireland this winter.

The Bernie Meaney Memorial and the 38th annual St Mary’s 5k road race were held at Kilmurry McMahon, organised by St Mary’s AC.

THE Clare Athletics Association Senior Cross Country Championship plus Juvenile B Championships for U-9, U-11 U-13 and U-15 will take place on the lands of  John and Brid Collins, Kilnaboy this Sunday at 11.30am.

The once dominant club in Clare hurling – they lead the roll of honour with 22 championships, 13 of which were won in the 19-year period between 1963 and 1981 – hasn’t won the Canon Hamilton Trophy in 31 years.They have been threatening a breakthrough in the past decade but the nearest they have come was to contest the final in 2008 when they lost to Clonlara. This year they enlisted the services of Tipperary’s All-Ireland winning manager Liam Sheedy as they stepped up their efforts to make the breakthrough.Initially the Portroe clubman’s involvement was minimal but, as the season progressed, his involvement increased. For the past couple of games in the competition he has been with the squad on match day and he has supervised a number of training sessions in recent times, including last weekend.There is no doubt but that Sheedy has an impressive CV. He managed his native Premier County to All-Ireland minor and senior successes and …

Enda Barrett is in his second year as captain of Newmarket senior hurlers. He and his teammates are determined that it will prove to be more successful than 2011.

It’s a measure of how highly-rated Barry Duggan is within Cratloe GAA that the club’s dual full-back is captain of the senior hurlers for a fourth successive season and, on Sunday, will lead the side into their third county senior final in that period.In 2009 he led the club to their only county senior title at the end of a season in which he was also the full-back on the county senior football team. After a break from inter-county football duties for a year, he returned to the Clare squad for the 2012 championship and played at full-back in the team that contested the Munster final. No doubt he and all Cratloe followers will be hoping that history will be repeated on Sunday and that he will again lift the Canon Hamilton Trophy.“We were a bit disappointed with last year’s championship. Our aim was to get back to the final but it didn’t happen. When the draw for this year’s …

As speculation continues that Micko Dwyer will be the next Clare senior football manager, Clare GAA chairman Michael O’Neill this week told The Clare Champion, “we hope to be in a position to make a recommendation in the next week to 10 days”.He refused to speculate as to the likely new manager other than to say, “We still have a few people to meet this weekend as we seek to put a management team together. I would hope that we will be able to bring the November meeting forward to Tuesday week and to put a proposal to that meeting.”According to the chairman, “a few people have withdrawn because of articles linking them to the job”.Sources close to the committee elected by the September meeting to find a successor to Micheál McDermott have indicated that efforts are being made this week to put a selection committee together that will work with O’Dwyer as manager. There is a view that there …