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ON FRIDAY night next, 15 commu- nity games participants from west Clare will be among those honoured at the Clare Community Games All Star awards.
Among the All Stars is Kieran Magner from the Cross/Carrigaholt area. The 14-year-old student at St Joseph’s Community School Kil- kee could not find his niche in the running section of the community games, but determined to compete he took up the shot putt just two years ago.
During his first year of compet-
ing he won the county final, so this second year he was determined to go one step further.
The young teen trained under the watchful eye of Kilmihil man John Devine and practiced every day dur- ing the summer.
All the hard work paid off when he won Silver in the All Ireland in Mos- eae
A keen rugby player and talented musician Kieran was also part of the Naoimh Eoin under 14 team that won the county championship.
Three of his four brothers also play for the GAA club.
The 14 other west Clare communi-
ty game participants to be honoured on the night include Marathon run- ner Liam Markham from Kilmurry McMahon/Labasheeda and under 16 basketball player Sally Glynn from Kilrush, who also holds an All Ire- land U/16B Ladies football medal with her local club.
Laura Egan from Kilmihil who is now a member of the Under-12 team will be honoured for her cross-coun- try running as will Conor Madigan from Kilrush who was part of the County U/12 football winning team.
Harp player Grainne Harvey from Cross/Carrigaholt will be _ recog- nised for her football playing abili-
ties while Becky O’Donnell from Kildysart is a talented gymnast. Kilmihil has four more sporting heroes in the line up including Bri- an Waters, Michael Keating, Dean Cleary and Pauric O’Gorman. Seamus Collins is from Ballyna- cally/Lissycasey and 1s a talented set dancer, while Laura McGuane and Niamh Cahill both from the Kilma- ley/Inch/Connolly area are receiving an All Star for their soccer playing. The last in the west Clare list is Doonbeg’s Sean Conway. Although he is a fan of soccer play- er Wayne Rooney he is being hon- oured for his swimming talent.