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I came in early yesterday morning to watch the Clare U21s play Dublin in a challenge game in Clare-abbey, our old pitch in Clarecastle. 

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All the news you need this lunchtime: 

Three of today’s four FBD League games brought wins for new men at the helm as Mayo, Leitrim and Galway emerged winners along with Roscommon.

Tipperary 2-24 Clare 2-17

Queen’s University 0-08 Galway Mayo IT 2-06

A trainee football coach, who was caught with a stolen monkey in a cage in the back of his car, has been ordered to carry out community service to avoid a jail term.

Clare hurler John Conlon has spoken for the first time about the concussion he suffered during last month’s Munster semi-final and which resulted in the Clonlara man taken to hospital with dangerously high blood pressure.

London 2-11 Leitrim 1-13

Clare 2-20 Waterford 1-15

UCC 2-17 Mary Immaculate College 2-12

Leitrim 1-11 Laois 1-13

Clare 1-16 Dublin 0-16

Limerick FC showed why they are many people’s favourites to top the First Division when they ruthlessly picked SD Galway apart at Eamonn Deacy Park last night.

They say a week in a long time in politics and in front of local TD John Halligan at the RSC last night, Waterford United showed that a week is even more longer in football as the Blues shocked Limerick FC in a passionate Munster derby.

Two Co Louth men have been convicted and each fined €1,000 for attacking the referee after the controversial 2010 Leinster football final.

A sick father whose wife is recovering from cancer and whose two children are autistic has expressed outrage at a pay rise for a special adviser, which he wrote to Enda Kenny about but got no reply.

They were back on familiar ground last Saturday. On a chilly evening in Sixmilebridge, Gavin O’Mahony and John Conlon were launched into Waterford Crystal Cup action as substitutes under floodlights at the East Clare venue.

A GARDA has said a colleague accused of assaulting a man after forcing entry to his flat told her not to say anything if asked about the alleged incident.

THEIR senior hurling fortunes may reside at a low ebb after the All-Ireland senior qualifier mauling at the hands of Dublin, but Clare U-21 star John Conlon has pleaded with the Banner supporters to be patient with the streams of underage talent that the county are producing.

THE GAA’s pleas to supporters to stay off the Croke Park pitch fell on deaf ears once again on Sunday after Clare’s emotional victory over Kilkenny in the All-Ireland U21 hurling final.

Two Ballyfermot men who transported over €500,000 of cannabis resin after falling into debt with criminals because of their cocaine habits have been sentenced to a total of 18 years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A part-time waitress sacked after complaining about being told to wear a skirt has been awarded more than €8,000 compensation, it was revealed today.

CUSACK PARK, Ennis yesterday saw the completion of as wondrous a hurling rise as can be imagined.

A garda has been praised for going "beyond the call of duty" when he arrested an armed robber who threatened to shoot at him twice within minutes of carrying out a raid on a Dublin Pharmacy.

A Co Wicklow man who was extradited from England yesterday has appeared at the Special Criminal Court today and was remanded in custody on explosives and ammunition charges.

A retired Sligo garda heavily criticised for lying to the Morris Tribunal today claimed he had been wrongly blamed.

One of the Birmingham Six has vowed to launch legal action against the British Government unless he gets a public apology.

Guildford Four member Gerry Conlon today paid an emotional tribute to members of the SDLP for standing by him as he sought to clear his name.

IT was a long time coming, but when Tony Blair issued the prime ministerial public apology to the Conlon and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment for IRA bomb attacks, it exceeded their expectations.

IT has taken the British Government all of 31 years to apologise to members of the Conlon and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment for IRA bomb attacks, but they will derive a large measure of consolation from the fact that when it finally came it amounted to outright exoneration.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is under renewed pressure to appoint a victims’ commissioner in the North following his public apology to the Conlon and Maguire families.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair came under renewed pressure to appoint a Victims’ Commissioner in Northern Ireland today following his public apology to the Conlon and Maguire families.

Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four wrongfully imprisoned for the IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974, has welcomed the British Prime Minister's apology to the Conlon and Maguire families.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair today publicly apologised to the Conlon and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment for the IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974.

The victims of one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice will travel to the House of Commons today in the hope that Tony Blair will publicly apologise for their wrongful imprisonment.

The eircom League today announced that Cobh Ramblers have been deducted three League Cup points as a result of their playing a suspended player.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions will decide in the coming weeks whether to bring charges against three gardaí in relation to alleged corruption in Co Donegal.