Legendary Clare full-back Brian Lohan wants Ger Loughnane to lead an independent review of the performances of the county’s senior hurling team and management.

Seamus Hayes, Clare Champion sports editor, on the heady Ger Loughnane days, email disasters and poorly planned media days.

THE loss-making company that publishes the Clare Champion newspaper recorded a €2 million writedown on its premises last year.

CLARE club Kilmaley have demanded an explanation from GAA President Christy Cooney as to why they failed to receive one of 10 €25,000 Strategic Infrastructure Funding Programme grants allocated at a recent Clare county board meeting from the monies the county received from the financial dividend of opening Croke Park to soccer and rugby since 2007.

CLARE County Board Chairman Michael O’ Neill is adamant that the stand-off between the Clare senior hurlers and county manager Mike McNamara will not result in a Cork-style players strike.

CONVICTED criminals are being sent to Britain for psychiatric treatment at a cost of €250,000 each because of a lack of services within the prison system.

TWO of the country’s biggest regional newspapers have had mixed fortunes.

IRISH EXAMINER owner Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) has bought The Echo Group of newspapers in Wexford.

Recent violence in Clare shows that large urban centres do not hold the franchise on crime and violence, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe.

A NEW local newspaper hits the stands of Clare this morning.

PRE-tax profits at the Clare Champion newspaper have fallen 21% as the company gears up for a major circulation battle with the soon to be launched Clare People tabloid newspaper.

JUST over 21-years-ago Clare side Newmarket-on-Fergus defeated St Finbarr’s in the first round of the Munster club hurling championship. Other than the fact that St Finbarr’s were the reigning champions at the time there was little else of significance about the result.