The Clare Echo

1 day ago | clareecho.ie | Gordon Deegan

*Gardaí made the drugs swoops in July and August 2023. A 28-year old West Clare man on a carer’s allowance to look after his mother “is facing a significant period in custody” after being caught with just under €300,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis. That is according to Judge Francis Comerford at Ennis Circuit Court after hearing a senior Garda detective describe Stephen Healy as an “integral part of a drug trafficking operation that was going on in this case”.

2 days ago | clareecho.ie | Gordon Deegan

A JUDGE has jailed a Shannon man for 22 months for slashing a mother of five with a Stanley knife and smashing glass in a caravan close to where her two week old baby lay during a violent disorder incident. At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Francis Comerford imposed the 22 month jail term on Bernard McDonagh (32) of St Helen’s Park, Ballymurtagh, Shannon for his role in the violent order incident in Shannon as part of a feud with another family in January 20th 2021.

3 days ago | clareecho.ie | Gordon Deegan

*The incident took place on the grounds of Smith O’Briens GAA club last May. A FATHER who head-butted another Dad at an East Clare GAA ground “sees red and takes off – that is the problem”. That is according to Judge Alec Gabbett who told Killaloe District Court sitting in Ennis on Tuesday that the background to the assault by Maurice Crotty on Aidan Fleming was “over an issue over a football at the local school and an email exchange”.

4 days ago | clareecho.ie | Eoin Brennan

*Eoin O’Brien with his daughter Elin. Photograph: Joe BuckleyNEWMARKET CELTIC’s twentieth Clare Cup title marked Eoin O’Brien’s first success in his debut season as manager of his native club. Celtic recorded a 1-0 win over Tulla Utd to claim the Cup for a record twentieth time, a success described by O’Brien as “very satisfying”. Finishing on a high will aid their preparations for next season, he outlined. “It’s a great reward for ten or eleven months of work.

4 days ago | clareecho.ie | Gordon Deegan

*Caherlohan. CLARE County Council has granted planning permission to €5m plans by Clare GAA to expand and redevelop the county’s GAA Centre of Excellence. The planners have given the ambitious plans to unearth the next Tony Kelly or Shane O’Donnell the green light on condition that a range of measures are put in place to safeguard the Lesser Horseshoe Bat.