ST Caimin’s Community School pupil Evgeniya Soldatkina achieved the highest mark in Ireland in the Junior Certificate technical graphics exam last June.

THERE has been “a significant increase” in thefts from cars in two North Clare villages in the past year, according to the most recent crime statistics.

The recent temporary unexpected closure of the High dependency unit (HDU) at Ennis Hospital is now being made permanent, the Mid-West HSE has confirmed.

ARCHITECTS who proposed a design for an independent footbridge in Quin village are set to meet with council officials to discuss the feasibilty of the project. Lawrence and Long Architects had previously put forward plans for a contemporary steel bridge. However, it was decided by Clare County Council that this would be “inappropriate”. There is already approval and funding in place to develop a new footpath to faciliate pedestrians along the wall of the existing bridge.

A DISTINGUISHED career in the legal profession and judiciary came to an end this week for Ennis man, Honourable Justice Daniel O’Keeffe when he retired from the High Court.

FINSA Forest Products Ltd recorded a loss of €3.4 million for the tax year 2011, according to accounts filed by the company in the last quarter of 2012.

WHILE people of the same religious views have congregated together for thousands of years, it’s relatively new for people who are opposed to the power of organised religion to come together.

FOLLOWING early mass on the morning of Sunday, February 20, 1921 Aiden, Cecil and Thomas O’Donovan decided to walk from their home at Emma Villas, in Thomondgate, to Blackwater Mill in Parteen. The purpose of their journey was to search for birds’ nests in the ruins of the mill.