Regional

THE collective efforts of local businesses to market the area as a perfect place to holiday will be showcased on RTÉ on Wednesday at 8.30pm.

NORTH Clare farmers, as well as an NGO, have called on the Department of Agriculture to extend the Burren Farming for Conservation Programme (BFCP) across the entire region.

SEPTEMBER 1993 and nine teenagers were about to embark on a brand new chapter in the provision of education in Ennis. These students were the first to enrol in Gaelcholáiste an Chláir, which this week celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Kinvara is gearing up for its 20th Fleadh na gCuach or Cuckoo Fleadh which organisers say “will be one of the biggest and best yet”. The festival, which takes place from Friday to Monday,  was the brainchild of local man, Tony Moylan.

A BOOK concentrating on the mass evictions in the Kilrush Poor Law Union during the Famine will be launched at 8pm on Tuesday at Teach Ceoil, Kilrush, as part of the National Famine Commemoration May 3 to 12.

SHANNON has been awarded the European Diploma of the Council of Europe in recognition of the town’s efforts to promote the ideal of European unity.

LITTLE did two men from South Galway realise that more than 80 years after they were photographed for one of the most iconic images of this era, they would feature in a documentary in Japan. Two workers from Shanaglish, near Gort, are sitting at either end of the ­photograph. On the extreme left, ­lighting the cigarette, is Matty O’Shaughnessy, while Patrick ‘Sonny’ Glynn is holding the bottle on the extreme right. Proudly displayed in Whelan’s pub, Shanaglish, it has become a huge visitor attraction since it was discovered that two of the people on the steel girder were from the area. Sónta Films will present IFTA 2013 award-nominated Men at Lunch, a feature-length documentary during the European Film Festival in Japan next month. Director, Seán O’Cualain was also invited to go to China in the second week of June but was unable to go because he is filming the history of the GAA in the US at the same time. …

EAST Clare Youth Reach is to benefit from an additional classroom facility in Tuamgraney after planning was granted this week for the change of use of a retail unit at Áras Bhriain Bhoru for educational use.