NOT for the first time, the spotlight was on Mullagh publican, Noel Moroney, in Galway on Friday night, when he came away with yet another fine double, which included his Tiermana Star winning the top race of the night.

Jockey Billy Lee was the star turn at last Sunday’s Cork Racecourse Mallow meeting, where the Limerick native bagged a near 760-1 treble that included a high-profile success aboard Tommy Stack’s 11-2 shot Cape Of Approval in the €40,000 Listed Midsummer Sprint Stakes.

An ‘impending crisis’ looms for the elderly people of Clare, writes Dan Danaher

PLANNING has been lodged with Clare County Council for the redevelopment of the West Clare Railway, incorporating a National Railway Heritage Museum in Moyasta.   The project would include a storage and repair area for historic railway rolling stock, a café and gallery. It would involve the construction of a footbridge over the railway line, adjacent to the museum building, along with a railway and pedestrian crossing on the main Kilrush/Kilkee road. In the planning report submitted by Brendan McGrath and Associates, Corofin, it is envisaged that the museum would have a floor area of 1,853 square metres. Clare County Council granted permission for a similar project in 2009 but the National Roads Authority successfully appealed that decision. An Bord Pleanála refused permission on the grounds the development would endanger public safety by reason of a traffic hazard and that the proposal had “not shown how it would integrate with the established railway at Moyasta junction”. However, Brendan McGrath’s planning …

A PAIR of medieval carvings, which were removed by a sea captain from Scattery Island more than 150 years ago, are to be returned to the island as part of a Gathering events on Sunday, July 7.

THE Clare Volunteer Centre is organising a unique gathering on Sunday at Ennis Cathedral in an effort to break a world record for the largest ever gathering of people of the same name, in the same place at the same time.

VULNERABLE elderly patients with serious medical conditions have been dealt a “double whammy” following a dramatic change in admission policy, a Mid-West leading consultant physician has claimed.

A GARDA alert has gone out following reports of attempts by telephone callers to get credit card information. This has happened most recently in the Mount Ivers area of Sixmilebridge and in the Ogonnelloe area, where people were duped into handing over small amounts of cash to fix alleged problems with their computers.