HARD-pressed businesses at SkyCourt are actually paying more money to the county council in rates than they are charged for their rent, according to the centre’s manager Pat Kelly.
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Brian Boru commemoration needs funding assurances
A MAJOR celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the death of Brian Boru in Killaloe next year, as part of a national event, would put it firmly on the tourist map according to a medieval re-enactment group.
Read More »All set for show time in Corofin
It’s all go for this year’s North Clare Show, which will be staged at Corofin on Saturday, July 27 and the committee, under chairperson Joe Killeen, are putting the finishing touches to this year’s programme.
Read More »In Time, In Tune, in Feakle
A DOCUMENTARY film cataloguing 25 years of the International Feakle Festival is to be screened on TG4 later this month, ahead of this year’s annual festival.
Read More »The sun comes out in honour of Willie
The west was alive with the sound of music this past week, calling tourists and traditional Irish music lovers, young and old, to Miltown Malbay for the annual Willie Clancy Summer School.
Read More »Happy occasion for Ennis playwright
AT just 20 years of age, Michael Marshall is to have his first play read by Druid Theatre during the Galway Arts Festival. It’s a coup for the young Ennis man, who is studying Performing Arts at Sligo Institute of Technology and has been involved with Clare Youth Theatre. The play, Happy Birthday Jacob, tells the story of 17-year-old Jacob Dooley, who is playing both mother and father to his 10-year-old brother Lucas, while both parents are absent.No one suspects the two are alone, with only Jacob’s girlfriend Terry in on the secret. Things are going fine until their mother returns, which brings a lot of upheaval. Speaking to The Clare Champion Michael said he is delighted that Druid has chosen his play, although the significance of it did not strike him immediately.“When I got the email, first of all it didn’t hit me. Of course everyone else in my course in college would know how big a deal it …
Read More »Chris honoured for contribution to Irish music
LEGENDARY concertina player, Chris Droney from Belharbour, is to be honoured with a national musician’s award, Gradam an Chomhaltais.
Read More »Exploring the War’s other side
TUMULTUOS events in the early part of the last century are the backdrop for (pictured) PJ Curtis’ new novel A Nightingale Falling.
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