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The annual Tony Horan memorial tractor run in Bridgetown, Co. Clare, will take place on Sunday, October 29.

The line ups for the TUS Clare senior and intermediate hurling championship semi-finals will be completed this afternoon. Crusheen face Newmarket in the first of today’s double header in Cusack Park from 1.45pm before Eire Og and Clonlara clash at 4.15pm. There is one game  this lunchtime as Clarecastle and O’Callaghan’s Mills do battle in […]

The group stages of the TUS Clare intermediate hurling championship conclude this afternoon. In Group One, the two remaining fixtures see Bodyke face Smith O’Brien’s and Killanena take on Tubber. Bodyke and Smith O’Brien’s are already through to the last eight, with the winner of that tie sealing top spot in the group. The other […]

Clonlara and Sixmilebridge will be hoping to take a step toward a seeded quarter-final spot in the Clare senior hurling championship this weekend. The Garney-side neighbours clash in Cusack Park on Saturday evening, in what will be a repeat of their 2015 county final showdown. Both sides won their opening round ties a fortnight ago, […]

The race for this year’s Canon Hamilton is already looking to be an intriguing one after 12 teams made their seasonal bow this weekend. There was contrasting fortunes for last year’s final pairing, while the weekend’s action started with one of the upsets of the round. First into the fray this weekend were Newmarket and Cratloe, […]

Introduction By Sean Matgamna In War is Hell James Connolly offers a prize example of the running with the hare and riding with the hounds he got into during World War One. He paints a true picture of the horrors of war for all its participants. He seems to be against all imperialist war. It reads like speeches that could have been and were made by any socialist before 1914. Indeed, war is hell. We are against war.

Two of the most recent clubs to join the ranks of the Clare senior hurling championship will face off in the first game of this year’s race for the Canon Hamilton. 2020 intermediate champions Scariff take on last year’s winners St Joseph’s Doora Barefield at Dr Daly Park in Tulla on Saturday afternoon. Last year […]

Introduction By Sean Matgamna In War is Hell James Connolly offers a prize example of the running with the hare and riding with the hounds he got into during World War One. He paints a true picture of the horrors of war for all its participants. He seems to be against all imperialist war. It reads like speeches that could have been and were made by any socialist before 1914. Indeed, war is hell. We are against war.

IrishCentral Contributor Loretto Horrigan Leary takes a look at The Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848.