The Clare Champion is a weekly local newspaper in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. It was founded in 1903 after was forced to close. In February 1918 it was banned and County Clare was declared a . 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.