Regional

WORK has started on a €1.2 million sports and recreational development in Killaloe, spearheaded by former Lions and Ireland rugby caption Keith Wood.

ON Sunday, June 3, Kilmurry McMahon will stage the parish’s first marquee in approximately 30 years. The first marquee was staged in 1963 and it realised a profit of £874, 15 shillings and nine pence. The expenditure was £581, six shillings and three and a half pence.

The villages of Ballyvaughan and Fanore will play host to the first ever summer festival Féile an tSamhraidh or Burren Summer Festival next week. Events run over the June Bank Holiday from June 1 to 4.

The group behind plans to install 24 hour access defibrillators throughout Ennis may not just be helping to save lives, but they could also be breaking records.

  The town of Gort received a huge boost on Monday when An Post Rás competitors, fans and support personnel descended on the town for the end of the second-longest stage of the gruelling eight-day event. Riders covered 157 kilometres from Kilkenny to Gort before setting off from the South Galway town again on Tuesday morning. Pirmin Lang of the Switzerland Atlas Jakroo team was first past the finish line on Monday’s stage two of the 2012 Rás. The Swiss rider sprinted to victory at the end of a particularly hilly stage taking riders through East Clare. Participants stayed in Gort, Loughrea and Ennis on Monday night before setting off from the Lady Gregory Hotel on Tuesday. The hotel found itself at capacity on a Monday night outside of peak season. “We had about 150 people staying. It was great and there was a great buzz around town, especially for a Monday evening. Registration was in the hotel on Tuesday …

FUNDING for the planned wastewater treatment plant at Quin Gardens, approved for planning permission late last year, has yet to be sanctioned by the Government.

THEY may be too young to vote, but the sixth class pupils of Barefield National School have shown that they still have plenty to say when it comes to the upcoming referendum on the fiscal stability treaty.

ST Senan’s National School in Shannon has achieved an active flag, recognising major efforts to promote physical activity among its pupils.