At at recent ceremony in the Rowan Tree Café Bar in Ennis, Bobby Collins of Charleston in South Carolina was enrolled as an honorary member of Ennis Chamber. Bobby, who was accompanied by his wife, Boo, senior vice-president of Engagement at Pure Insurances, was bestowed the honor in recognition of his work in the partnership between Ennis and Charleston.

LOVE was definitely in the air when a group of daters, including Spanish Point’s Aisling Walsh, set a new Guinness World record for the world’s highest-ever speed date last week.

BISHOP Kieran O’Reilly led 450 pilgrims on the 57th Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes recently, just one week after the authorities were forced to close the sanctuaries after floods devastated the Pyrenees region of the South of France.

IN the middle of June 1940, Churchill  told the British people the Battle of France was over but that the Battle of Britain was about to begin. Whereas the Battle of France was fought on the ground, the Battle of Britain was an out-and-out air war. After the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, Hitler turned his attention to England and ordered preparations for Operation Sealion – the invasion of England. This would be almost impossible while Britain had a superior navy and controlled the English Channel.

WORK on the €3 million Cuan an Chláir Day Care Centre and housing project officially began this week.

Onlookers in Mountshannon are awaiting the much-anticipated flight from the nest of Ireland’s first white-tailed sea eagle chicks to be born in the wild in over 110 years.

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has thrown a major spanner in the works as regards plans by Irish Rail to develop a stop at Crusheen.