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The 19th February 23rd 2010 “The spirit of Rineen was in The Gaelic Grounds on Sunday, because it was another ambush – it’s why a hurling man like Naoise Jordan was out among the Kilmurry Kop afterwards; he’s hurling from boss to butt, but he’s Clare too and this was a Clare day as the county took its place among the elite.”BUMPED into Naoise Jordan in the left-half-forward p... Read more |
The 19th (02/02/10) “A minor football manager should have been appointed last Autumn at the latest. That we reached February before the appointment was made places Clare in a virtually impossible position where the season ahead is concerned.”ONE hopes that there will be something of a crowd in Cusack Park on Sunday as the Clare footballers start out their National Lea... Read more |
The 19th, January 19th 2010 “Remember back in ‘80 when the Argies came to Lansdowne Road and unfurled one Diego Maradona. We loved the Argies so much back then that we supported them wholeheartedly two years later when they launched their little soiree in the South Atlantic to reclaim the Malvinas.”JOHN Delaney seems like a good guy and more than an acceptable face of the Foo... Read more |
The 19th January 5th 2010 “In winning a first Munster title in 12 years, delegates of the Clare County Board will back slap some of the players so hard to convince themselves and the players that they supported their coup d’etat last November that some of the players are in a race against time to be fit for the All-Ireland semi-final.”FOR those of you are afraid to dream, a... Read more |
The 19th December 29th 09 “V is for Victory – that was the lot of the Clare under 21 team under the watch of John Minogue, Cyril Lyons, Sean O’Halloran and Alan Dunne in ’09. V is also for the Harvey Smith sign that the Clare County Board gave to the people of Clare, while at the same time sticking their heads in the sands after Clare’s disastrous senior hurling year in ’09... Read more |
The 19th December 22nd 09 “The smiling hurling queen, who on this occasion supported the men of Killilagh, then entered the field preceded by the parish piper and a banner decorated with ‘gaudy garlands’ and followed by white-robed ‘damsels dancing’. These dancing damsels in north Clare were the WAGS of their day.YOU heard it many times before – the one true and definitive ... Read more |
The 19th December 15th 09 “John Kennedy from Kilrush worked in England for Murphy family construction firm as well as a doorman at the famous Galtymore in Cricklewood - it was there that Kennedy was attacked by members of the notorious ‘Sunshine Gang’. It was thought that the attack would end his boxing career.”THE 19th took a call on Sunday from a person south of the Shann... Read more |
The 19th December 8th 09 “The appointment of the next Clare senior hurling manager should be taken out of the hands of the Clare County Board. In Cork, responsibility for finding a successor to Gerald McCarthy was ceded by the county board to Jimmy Barry Murphy, Denis Coughlan and John Fenton. Brian Lohan, James O’Connor and Sean McMahon should be given the job here in Cla... Read more |