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County records BAGS OF CLASS sunniest week since 1995... by Páraic McMahon paraic@clareecho.ie
COUNTY CLARE has recorded its sunniest week since 1995 while nighttime water restrictions have been introduced in Fanore. A total of 105.3 hours of sunshine were recorded at Shannon Airport’s met station in the past week making it the sunniest week in Clare since 1995 and the brightest spell recorded by an Irish weather station since 2018. Since Tuesday night, eight hour restrictions on water use in Fanore came into effect and will continue for that duration for successive nights until reservoir levels stabilise. Water schemes in Ballyvaughan, Ennistymon, Kilfenora and Lahinch are experiencing shortages
and reduced pressure due to low reservoir levels. Spells of sunshine are generally a good omen so far as hurling is concerned with Kieran McDermott famously singing in The Banner Roar in 1995 that “All Munster suffered sunstroke and the grass was all burnt dry”. Brian O’Connell’s minors were crowned All-Ireland champions for the first time since 1997 on Sunday while the senior hurlers are bidding to defeat Limerick in the provincial final for the first time since 1995 this coming Sunday. Close attention is being paid to the water in Bunratty to see if the dolphins have arrived, their presence was last spotted there in 2013 when Clare’s senior hurlers last won the All-Ireland title.
l Clare selector Fintan Leamy on the bagpipes leads the Clare Minor hurlers into Cusack Park after they defeated Galway at the weekend tto claim All-Ireland glory
Photo by Gerard O’Neill