Threshold Annual Report Reveals How Many Clare Homes Were Assisted

Sports Preview - 26th of June 2026

Alan Morrissey was joined live in-studio by Clare FM’s Derrick Lynch to chat about the upcoming sporting fixtures for the weekend. - All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship: Offaly v Clare (Saturday, St Brendan's Park, Birr, 3:30pm) - Ladies All-Ireland Intermediate Football Championship Quarter-Final: Clare v Fermanagh (Sunday, Zimmer Biomet Páirc Chíosóg, 2pm) - COMMENTARY ON CLARE FM Image (c) Clare FM

Contractors For Broadford And Cooraclare Sewerage Schemes To Be Appointed Next Year

Contractors won’t be appointed to begin major sewerage works in Broadford and Cooraclare until next year. Both villages were included in the Government’s €50m pilot wastewater programme in 2024, which aims to connect unsewered settlements to the network. Uisce Éireann has confirmed consultants will finalise designs for the projects by September. Responding to Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Cooney at the Oireachtas Housing Committee, Head of Asset Management Seán Laffey says progress is being made.

All Folk’d Up To Close Out Sold-Out Sunday At The Amgen Irish Open In Doonbeg

Irish folk-rock band All Folk’d Up are set to headline the closing day entertainment at this year’s Amgen Irish Open in Doonbeg, bringing their high-energy live show to the mainstage in the Championship Village.   The Clare event will combine world-class golf with live music and entertainment, with the band performing as spectators celebrate the end of a major week for Irish sport.   Joining Alan Morrissey to chat about the upcoming performance, the band’s music and what it means to be part of the event was Ryan Kelly from All Folk’d Up. Photo (c) All Folk'd Up

Sinn Féin's Tommy Guilfoyle Elected Mayor Of Ennis

Ennis has its first Sinn Féin mayor in over a century following the election of Clarecastle Councillor Tommy Guilfoyle at the annual general meeting of Ennis Municipal District this week.    The Cork native ascended to the position after being nominated by fellow magpie, Fine Gael Councillor Paul Murphy.    The outgoing Cathaoirleach of Ennis MD, Fine Gael Councillor Mary Howard, will serve as leas-cathaoirleach for the coming 12 months - she was nominated for the position by Fianna Fáil Councillor Antoinette Baker-Bashua.    A postal worker with a background as a trade unionist, Councillor Guilfoyle has been on Clare County Council since the June 2024 Local Elections.    Clare FM's Seán Lyons was at the meeting and spoke to the new mayor about what the role means to him. Photo (c) Seán Lyons

Clare Man On His Battle Back From Death’s Door, Thanks To Life Saving Cancer Treatment

Gordon Flannery has had a year that nobody would want to go through.  The Ennis native, who is a publican in Listowel, Co. Kerry, received a colon cancer diagnosis in September of last year, and was told that he had just three months to live.  Gordon was extremely close to death when he underwent life-saving open bowel surgery in The Mater Hospital in Dublin to remove most of the tumour blocking his colon.  Gordon joined Alan Morrissey to share his story, and to encourage men to get checked. Photo (c) Clare FM