DEVELOPERS eager to build a time-share “wellness centre” on the edge of the Burren are hoping it will be third time lucky when Clare County Council decides whether or not to give the project the go-ahead next month.

  CUIMHNEAMH an Chláir and the Clare Education Centre are celebrating the success of their first joint Clare School’s Folklore Education Quiz. The quiz involved pupils from primary schools all across the county listening to memories of Clare’s elderly population, selected from the archive of Cuimhneamh an Chláir. Pupils were given the task of carefully listening to selected memories, which related to Christmas from the 1920s to the 1940s and answering associated questions. The quiz generated an enormous response, with over 300 pupils rising to the challenge. Ten winners were selected for special prizes sponsored by the Clare Education Centre and Cuimhneamh an Chláir. They were presented with their prizes at a special gathering at the Clare Education Centre last week. According to Pat Hanrahan, director of the Clare Education Centre, the response to the education quiz was most encouraging. He said, “From the level of responses received, it was obvious that the work of Cuimhneamh an Chláir is making …

Kilrush has been selected as the host location for the 2013 National Famine Commemoration, on a date yet to be announced. The National Famine Commemoration Committee informed Kilrush Town Council of the decision on Monday.  

THERE were calls for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to closely monitor Shannon’s air quality at this week’s meeting of local area councillors.

Much-anticipated flood relief works in the Watery Road/Elm Park area of the town have moved a step closer this week. Ennis Town Council has signed a contract with Ward & Burke Construction for the works, which are now due to begin at the end of this month.

Pat Guerin looks to the rich and fascinating past of his family’s home place in Kilnamona  

EIGHT-year-old David Doran represented Peterswell National School in the Connacht Minor Schools’ Swimming Championships recently. The talented youngster competed in the age seven to nine age group of the 50m freestyle and 50m backstroke. He finished 17th in the 50m freestyle, eighth in the 50m backstroke and achieved the qualifying time for the national schools’ final. The Peterswell pupil was delighted to have made the national finals beating his personal best (PB) by four seconds in the process.

THE importance of providing information to older people to ensure they are claiming and in receipt of their entitlements cannot be over-emphasised.