Out with the old in with new

THERE are new banners flying in the Banner county these days. Flags that have fluttered on chimneys and piers since 1997, even 1995, and looked every year of it.

Tattered, tired and torn they have been replaced with fresh new saffron-and-blue flying instead.

Replaced too has been the talk of those glory years, and the nervous whispers that perhaps they were a bit of a fluke, brought about by a unique bunch of men whose likes would never be seen again in Clare jerseys.