Broadford man, Joe Burke sustained a bite to his hand and had several lucky escapes from the jaws of a feisty otter who wasn’t afraid to chase off the six foot farmer, as a rescue attempt turned nasty in Tulla this week.

Parents of Doonaha National School pupils are using the power of social media by launching a Facebook campaign called ‘Save Small Schools – Ireland’ to allow the voices of all small schools to be heard. This follows a parent-teacher meeting in response to the ‘Value for Money’ review by the Departments of Education and Finance.

Andrew Clancy, Lahinch, Michael Morgan, Kilfenora and Peader O’Reilly, Lisdoonvarna, are intent on creating the perfect sauce in Mary’s Men Only Cookery Class at the Boghill Centre, Kilfenora.

A “natural young entrepreneur” was fittingly recognised at a national enterprise competition last week.

A SHANNON man snapped up a new camera after scooping the Clare prize in the Danone Actimel Full of Life Winter Moments Photo Competition.

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AS 2008 began the people of Shannon were shown a masterplan for their town’s future and it was jaw dropping.

AN undue emphasis on mono-lingual practices and the administration of the grant system in Gaeltacht areas underlie the failure to revive our native tongue, according to Dr Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin.