Four consultants in the Mid-West will be paid an extra €184,000 in total as part of new management structure for acute hospitals in the region.

  DOONBEG Links Golf Club reviewed a very successful year at their annual meeting on Friday night when the following officers were elected: president, Timmy Killeen; captain, Nigel Dillon; secretary, James Griffin; treasurer, Seanie Moloney; competition secretary, Kevin Hayes; handicap committee, John Maguire, Diarmaid O’Donnell, Declan Conway; Jimmy Bruen (captain); Diarmaid O’Donnell; Pierce Purcell (captain); Pat Cotter. The captain’s drive in will take place on Sunday, January 27 at 9.30am followed by a scramble. EnnisAFTER the new captain’s (Sean Fitzpatrick) drive-in on Thursday last, Ennis seniors held a team four competition. The winners with 84 points were Michael Kerin, Seamus Frehill, Michael Vaughan and Andy Cregan. They were followed by Sean Fitzpatrick, Terry Hughes, Michael A Considine and Luke Coote with 80 points; Paul Mockler, George Tuohy, Pat Rutherford and Joe O’Brien with 80; Bernard Hanrahan, Willie Moloney, Ollie Kenneally and George Dilger with 80; Michael Dempsey, John White, Tom Purcell and Tom Fox with 79 with sixth spot filled …

It was a good weekend for Gort trainer Maurice Mullaney, Castletown  who had a double at the Galway Greyhound Racing Stadium on Saturday night  and followed up with another winner at the Limerick stadium on the same night.

THE Scattery Island Heritage and Tourism Forum in Kilrush has challenged members of the local town council to support the group in its efforts to make Scattery Island more accessible.

SHANNON’S passenger numbers dipped by 14% last year to just 1,394,781, most of the decline due to less use of the airport by the US military.The last time passenger numbers dipped to such a level was in 1988.

Fairyhouse on Wednesday of last week proved a happy hunting ground for Bunratty owner, Mark McDonagh, where his 5-1 chance, Mister Hotelier, ran out a good winner of the opening two-mile maiden hurdle.

The Oaks Trial Stake win by the Liscannor-owned Kinielty Jazz at the Tubbercurry meeting last weekend  boosted the number of Clare-owned qualifiers for the national meeting in Clonmel on February 2-4.

TWO Kilrush town councillors have expressed shock at learning that three options relating to the traffic management of a junction leading to the Ennis road in Kilrush, were on public display for all of December. Neither councillor was aware of this. The safety of the junction, where six roads converge on the Ennis Road, has been questioned regularly at town council meetings.