Regional

COUNCILLOR Pat Hayes, having now relinquished his role as mayor, is looking forward to getting back to the grassroots and throwing himself into community issues in East Clare.

THE Ennis Street Festival is set to run from  this Friday to July 8.

  ENNIS could become a bilingual town by 2018, according to the organisers of a project aimed at promoting local businesses to use the cúpla focal in a bid to increase business and tourism in the town.Inis Dom!, funded by Foras na Gaeilge, is being undertaken by Chláir as Gaeilge and already the response from businesses has been “phenomenal”. According to Domhnall Ó Loingsigh of Conradh na Gaeilge Inis, “We have a five-year plan to make Ennis a bilingual town and we think we can do this by 2018. Our message is, let’s do this and get everybody behind this.”The Inis Dom! project was first launched late last year but this week sees efforts step up a gear. A survey has been sent out to businesses throughout the town to ascertain the amount of interest in achieving bilingual status as well as to find out the level of Irish speaking that is currently out there. Bainisteoir Brónagh Ní Choitir has …

Five years after it was founded, Gort Cancer Support celebrated the official opening of its new centre in Garrabeg, Gort.

INDEPENDENT town councillor Mairéad O’Brien was elected Mayor of Kilrush at last Friday’s AGM in the town hall. Councillor O’Brien succeeds Councillor Ian Lynch. The new deputy mayor is independent Councillor Paul Moroney.

PEOPLE from across 12 towns and villages in East Clare will be taking steps to raise funds for cancer research as they prepare to launch Strictly Come Dancing East Clare next week.

IT was a case of home sweet home in Ennis this week as a new social housing development for six people with intellectual disability, undertaken by Banner Housing Association, was officially launched by Minister for Housing Jan O’Sullivan.

A NUMBER of fundraising events supporting the provision of a €1.2 million sports and recreational development spearheaded by former Lions and Rugby caption Keith Wood in Killaloe, have been organised by a local committee.