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When Fr Harry Bohan was approached about writing a book, he agreed on one condition: that there’d be some value to the exercise, rather than sketching one man’s vanity.

Having won this year’s All-Ireland senior and U21 hurling double, and with Sixmilebridge in Sunday’s Munster Club final, Clare hurling is on the crest of a wave.

Work will begin early next year on a €3.5m plan for a day care centre and sheltered housing for the elderly in Ennis.

ANTHONY DALY revealed a text message from Ger Loughnane shows his former All-Ireland-winning manager is prepared to fight his battle against leukaemia.

WHEN you’re in a hole the best thing to do is ... stop digging.

THERE was a time when the great trinity of Irish society, Fianna Fáil, the Catholic Church and the GAA, looked impregnable. Michael Moynihan left the politics out of it and chatted to Fr Harry Bohan about the Association and the Church.

A YEAR ago tonight Chicago’s Grant Park was the place to be. Barack Obama had defied history, racial prejudice, America’s Grand Old Party and, not least of all, the Clintons, to be elected President of America.

A social revolution is rapidly changing the way Irish people work, rest and play, it was claimed today.

BART, Homer and their yellow-faced gang may not seem like the best church-going family in the world.

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

THE father of murdered nurse Sara Neligan will be among the speakers at a two-day conference on the changes occurring in Irish society.

TEAGASC is to fund a three-year study into suicide in rural Ireland, it was confirmed yesterday.

Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy is to be honoured at the Humbert Summer School for his work on piloting garda reforms, it emerged today.

THE timing of Aer Lingus’s Shannon-Heathrow announcement, following the Dáil and Seanad elections and during the long summer recess of both Houses, was both politically and public relations-influenced.

The challenges of living in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland will be discussed at the ninth annual Ceifin conference which opens today.

A healthy democracy depends on citizens getting actively engaged in the issues that affect them, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.

Clare 2-15 Offaly 1-9

Special Olympics supremo Mary Davis is to head a new national citizenship task force to urge people to get involved in voluntary work in their communities.

ALL-IRELAND winning manager Ger Loughnane will return to the airwaves today on Clare FM as the row which has engulfed hurling in the county stumbles into a second week.

IT'S nonsense, isn't it, all this Clare crisis lark? The physio resigns, and it's a crisis? A guy makes a crack in a private telephone conversation about a fella he patently doesn't like, and it's front-page headlines?

FORMER midfield star Ollie Baker is hoping that his experience with the Clare hurlers over the past decade will assist him in his new role as a selector along with Alan Cunningham, Fr. Harry Bohan and manager Anthony Daly.

Former captain Anthony Daly's tenure as Clare senior hurling manager was officially extended at last night's county board meeting in Ennis.

THERE will be no decision on the Cork senior hurling management until after Sunday's SHC final between Cloyne and Newtownshandrum.

IT would appear that, as a nation, we are unhappy. “Yes,” I hear you say, “We know. We’ve seen Rip Off Republic.”

ANTHONY DALY and his more senior players will make no impulse decisions over their futures with Clare, according to captain Sean McMahon.

ANTHONY DALY did not want to make excuses for his team’s defeat, but he put forward several reasons to explain it.

ANTHONY DALY was trying hard to be positive.

MENTION May 16, 2004 to Anthony Daly and he cringes.

THERE is much talk this week of the last NHL Final meeting of Kilkenny and Clare in 1995 and how the Banner went on to win the All-Ireland championship, their first in over eight decades.

TIPPERARY should offer to play a tournament game against Fermanagh some time next year as a goodwill gesture, following the controversial decision to opt out of the Bank of Ireland football championship qualifier against them early in the summer.

Anthony Daly was ratified for a second term as Clare hurling boss at Tuesday night's meeting of the county board.

Two-time All-Ireland winning captain Anthony Daly was last night ratified for another year's term as manager of the Clare hurling team.

WATERFORD manager Justin McCarthy yesterday paid tribute to former Clare hurler Tom Crowe, who died in Dublin on Tuesday after a short illness.

AFTER their failure in the League final last weekend, Waterford can either be inspired to energise their challenge tomorrow or, alternatively, be subdued by it.

Diarmuid O’Flynn finds Clare freshman manager Anthony Daly has his own way of doing things

JUSTIN McCARTHY knows the pitfalls because he has been through it as a player and coach. He realises only too well the implications for his Waterford team contesting the National Hurling League final at the Gaelic Grounds tomorrow (4pm).

ANTHONY DALY is relishing his appointment as manager of the Clare senior hurlers. However, Daly, who celebrated his 34th birthday last week, is under no illusions about the mammoth task he has undertaken along with Fr. Harry Bohan, and Alan Cunningham.

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.

AT one stage, Justin McCarthy spoke as if he was wearing his Cork hat. He was talking about the Rebel county’s approach to the Munster championship and who better to articulate it.