Regional

THE 18th annual Dan Furey weekend of set-dancing will be held in Labasheeda this weekend. It will start on Friday evening and conclude on Sunday. The headquarters will be the local community centre. The festival in memory of Dan, who dedicated his life to teaching the dances of the Labasheeda area, has become the focal point for the community over the years. Dan Furey and his friend, James Keane, came to national and international prominence in their latter years particularly through Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy and travelled all over Ireland and abroad teaching set and step dancing. The festival will be officially opened on the Friday night at 9.30pm by Fr Tom McGrath, who spent over 40 years in Kenya as a missionary priest. He is now retired at home in the company of his mother, Bridie, and sister, Mary. Stephen McDonagh is a local historian who, along with heritage officers from Clare County Council, in conjunction with Heritage Week, …

MEMORIES of dancing at various crossroads in South-East Clare came flooding back for locals who commemorated the death of a Cratloe native, who lost his life on the ill-fated RMS Titanic 100 years ago.

SHANNON’S Simon Kenny is chairperson of the Limerick Radio Club, which will be broadcasting for a period of 48 consecutive hours from Loop Head Lighthouse this weekend.

A BAG of flour maybe be useful for many things but can it help preserve history? Well that’s exactly what the Clare Archaeological and Historical Society used, along with the stalwart work of its members, to help with the painstaking transcription of burial monuments at Kilraghtis graveyard, which is in the Doora-Barefield parish.

A NORTH Clare councillor has cried foul over the Department of the Environment’s decision to exclude the Doolin and Ballyvaughan sewerage schemes from its major capital investment programme. This is despite the fact that wastewater from Ballyvaughan village goes into Ballyvaughan Bay untreated.Councillor Joe Arkins believes the Department of the Environment should take another look at the two schemes.

Mountshannon and Scariff have been chosen as two of the nine towns and villages throughout the county to participate in the Clare Villages and Towns Strategic Plan Initiative 2012.

More than 12,500 people have visited Loop Head Lighthouse in Kilbaha since it was officially opened to the public on  May 18, figures released on Tuesday show.

GORT Sewerage Scheme doesn’t have the spare capacity to provide treatment for approved developments that have yet to be started or completed.