''The Clare Champion'' is a weekly local

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Ennis Ennis () is the county town of County Clare, in the mid-west of Ireland. The town lies on the River Fergus, north of where the river widens and enters the Shannon Estuary. Ennis is the largest town in County Clare, with a population of 25,27 ...

County Clare County Clare ( ga, Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Southern Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council is the local authority. The county had a population of 118,817 ...

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. It was founded in 1903 after ''

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'' was forced to close. In February 1918 it was banned and County Clare was declared a

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.De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow page 103 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 the late John McMahon, former editor of the ''Galway Observer''. Photographer John Kelly has been with the paper since 1995.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clare Champion, The 1903 establishments in Ireland Ennis Mass media in County Clare Clare champion Publications established in 1903 Weekly newspapers published in Ireland