The Clare Champion

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The Clare Champion
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The Clare Champion office in Ennis
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)Clare Champion Ltd
EditorColin McGann
Founded1903
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersBarrack St, Clonroad Beg, Ennis
City Ennis
CountryIreland
Website clarechampion.ie

The Clare Champion is a weekly local newspaper in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. It was founded in 1903 after The Clare Man was forced to close. [1] [2] [3]

In February 1918 it was banned and County Clare was declared a military area. [4]

Many people have been associated with The Clare Champion over the years. Andy McEvoy came to the paper in 1925 as editor. He retired in 1950. Earlier one of the paper’s reporters was Pat Quinn, who later moved to Dublin to become the political correspondent of the Irish Independent. Larry DeLacey was the editor for most of the 1950s and was followed by George Mulvey and Frank O’Dea, who came to the paper in 1959 and retired in 1996.

Austin Hobbs joined the paper in 1979; he served as editor until May 2018, when he was succeeded by Peter O’Connell. The O’Connell era was a short-lived one, and he resigned as editor after just two years in the post, long-serving journalists Tony Mulvey and sports editor Seamus Hayes left shortly after his appointment. He was replaced by Colin McGann, the person to serve as editor of The Clare People before its closure.

Ex-journalists include Senan Carroll, former editor of the Leinster Leader, Dick Walsh, who went on to become political correspondent with the Irish Times, John Howard, RTÉ, Tom Glennon, chief sub-editor, Irish Times, and John McMahon, former editor of the Galway Observer.

Photographer John Kelly has been with the paper since 1990.

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References

  1. Deegan, Gordon (18 November 2011). "Clare Champion makes €2m asset writedown". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  2. O'Laughlin, Michael C. (17 August 2017). The Families of County Clare, Ireland: Over One Thousand Entries from the Archives of the Irish Genealogical Foundation. Irish Roots Cafe. ISBN   9780940134980 via Google Books.
  3. Lenihan, Edmund; Lenihan, Eddie (17 August 2017). In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway. Mercier Press Ltd. ISBN   9781856355797 via Google Books.
  4. De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow page 103