A capacity crowd attended Clare ICA’s recent fashion show at the Woodstock Hotel, Ennis.

The Munster Council will easily break the €4m mark in gate receipts as they expect attendance figures to be up by at least 20% on the 2014 figures.

Galway captain David Collins isn’t afraid to say it — his team have suffered a collective mental hang-up in recent years.

The Health and Safety Authority has launched an investigation into a chemical spill in Co Clare.

The organisers of the second annual Che do Beatha festival in Kilkee have found — in Declan Ganley — an unlikely ally in playing down the controversy around the festival’s inspiration, Che Guevara.

CLARE 2011 is a series of forestry events in Co Clare up to October 19.

YOU must all go to Clare — more specifically to the Burren area of north Clare.

DAVY FITZGERALD will make a decision on whether he wishes to remain on as Waterford manager over the coming days.

GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI will name his Irish squad for next month’s friendly against Croatia on Friday, when he and Marco Tardelli attend the FAI’s Festival of Football in Clare on the eve of the association’s AGM in Ennis.

The tiny village of Milltown Malbay is the focal point for Willie Clancy Week, reports Caomhan Kean.

CLARE football boss Micheal McDermott is confident that the GAA’s Central Council will look favourably this weekend on their request to become eligible for the scheme which allows players to declare for the home county of their parents.

ST Gall’s and Portlaoise are the only two clubs in contention to retain their provincial titles as the action in this year’s AIB All-Ireland Club Championships gets cranked up a few notches in the coming weeks.

THE Cratloe-Crusheen clash in tomorrow’s Clare SHC final (Cusack Park, Ennis, 3.30pm) reinforces the sense of a power shift in Banner hurling, from traditional powerhouses to newer forces.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE captain Enda Coughlan believes his side’s recent practice in playing against 14 men was instrumental in achieving victory in Sunday’s bad-tempered All-Ireland Club SFC final against Portlaoise.

Patrick Elliott and his co-driver, Paul Goodman, have been declared winners of the Clare Rally, the penultimate round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship that ended in controversial circumstances on Sunday last.

Nearly a decade as captain of Clare, a spell as manager of the team, many years spent as an analyst and commentator on hurling in print and on television, Anthony Daly has said a few things in his time.

An elderly couple had to be rescued from their home during a suspicious overnight fire in Co Clare.

GEORGIE FITZPATRICK was always a popular man in Kilkee. His easygoing manner and a phenomenal football service record for club and county is the type of stuff that gains you kudos in this part of West Clare.

CLARE manager Anthony Daly, whose sideline ban for the All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final on Sunday week against Cork was lifted yesterday on appeal, has reacted angrily to a newspaper report in Tuesday's Clare People.

WHAT a difference a game makes. Having lost much of their aura in the Leinster final defeat against Wexford, suddenly Kilkenny are back as the one team everyone must match — and try to avoid.

PAUL GALVIN is recalled to the Kerry team for Sunday's Allianz National Football League game with Fermanagh in Fitzgerald Stadium. His selection, at right half-forward in place of Liam Hassett, is the only change from the side which defeated Dublin at Parnell Park.

English driver, Jim Harrison in a McKinstry prepared S8 Subaru WRC has a six second lead after the opening loop of three stages of the Lynch Hotels Clare Rally, the penultimate round of the Dunlop National Rally championship.

DICKIE MURPHY has been appointed to referee next Saturday’s Guinness Munster hurling semi-final replay in Thurles.

LIMERICK boss Liam Kearns revealed yesterday how he threatened to resign as manager last week after their League Division Two final self-destruction at Croke Park.

Gardai in Limerick have arrested two men and a woman in connection with the murder of a 39-year-old man at his home in Co Clare last December.

Wexford will take encouragement from last year's feats in the All-Ireland championship following their heavy provincial final loss to Kilkenny as they look ahead to this evening's hurling championship qualifier with Clare at O'Moore Park, Portlaoise.

Independent TD Michael Lowry has lashed the Munster council for their decision not to play any major games in Semple Stadium, Thurles.

The Gaelic Grounds in Limerick has been set as the surprise venue for next Sunday's Allianz National League final between Tipperary and Clare.