Staff and volunteers of the East Clare Community Co-op put themselves through a “baptism of mud” as they journeyed to Hell and Back in aid of the locally based counselling service.

ANTI-SOCIAL behaviour in private housing estates needs to be punished by taking away rent supplements, according to a local councillor.

Previously among the most packed-up parking areas in the town, the Cloughleigh Road is now almost unrecognisable since the introduction of pay-and-display parking.

  STUDENTS of Rice College made a ‘wheel’ effort to raise money for charity last Friday. The fifth year Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme students managed to cycle 100km in two hours and 55 minutes, raising money for both their school and Youth Suicide Prevention Ireland. It was planned that the fundraiser would involve 18 students divided into two teams for a relay race on exercise bikes to 100km. However, three of the students were unable to take part on the day, so instead they did two kilometre time trials to reach the 100km. According to teacher Aileen O’Driscoll, “They did fantastically well, we had to alter our original plan a bit but it all went really well. They all worked really hard, in fact one of them managed to do the two kilometres in just two minutes and eight seconds.” The fundraising effort has raised nearly €500, Ms O’Driscoll said. “We have over €400 collected and we’re heading for the …

A CLARE County Councillor is appealing to the local authority to take in charge a housing estate in which the sewage treatment plant overflowed four times in the last 18 months.

TWO workers from Tús, the community work placement scheme, are to start work on the grounds of Thoor Ballylee, the former home of famed Irish poet and writer, WB Yeats, it was confirmed this week.

IN letters to Shannon Town Council, both Electric Ireland and Airtricity have defended the reconnection fees they charge to customers.

Experts from the worlds of science, business, politics and culture will be in Ballyvaughan later this month. The Climate Gathering will bring together 30 leading thinkers on climate issues including Professor Daniel Schrag, from the board of scientific advisors to President Obama; Peter Vis, head of cabinet to the European Climate Commissioner; John Ashton, UK climate ambassador from 2002-2012; Marie-Hélène Aubert, advisor to the French President; Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, head of the Potsdam Institute; John Weaver, political consultant and former chief political adviser to Senator John McCain and former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.