Employers need to fit working hours around the busy lives of post-boom families to help save communities, a leading sociologist claimed today.

THE advantage is with Clare ahead of Saturday’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final replay with All-Ireland champions Kilkenny, according to Banner selector Fr Harry Bohan.

ANTHONY DALY, the man who captained Clare to two exhilarating All-Ireland senior hurling championships, was last night appointed manager of the Banner county for the coming season.