ANOTHER person was injured by Dusty, the dolphin in Doolin Harbour last Sunday.

KILMURRY Ibrickane native, Connie Corry has unearthed fascinating information relating to the parish’s connection with Jackie Bouvier, who married Senator John F Kennedy in 1953.

ENNIS’ business community are being urged to pull out all the stops when it comes to customer service as judges for the prestigious Fáílte Ireland Tourism Award visit the town.

THE former Avoca site in Bunratty has been an eyesore for years but planning has just been granted by An Bord Pleanála to develop a restaurant on its site.

RECREATION and sports enthusiasts in South-East Clare will be spoilt for choice if plans contained in a new strategy come to fruition.

MOUNTSHANNON people showed the huge interest they have in their own community when they made a presentation to Pride of Place judges, Blaise Treacy and Declan Nelson, on Tuesday.

Re-development work on Corofin Hall is expected to commence in mid-August following the signing of the building contract. The €600,000 revamp follows years of planning and preparation by CHAF Ltd. (Corofin Hall and Field), a hall development group which was set up in 2006, to examine how St Patrick’s Hall could once again become the centre of community life for the area.

  THE country’s newest train station at Oranmore opened on Sunday. Oranmore, the 144th station on the Iarnród Éireann network, will be served by 23 trains on weekdays and 15 trains on Sundays. Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar officially opened the station, which sets in place another important piece of the framework for a strong rail network in the West of Ireland. Together with the car park facilities, the project spend is in the order of €4.8m. Mr Jim Meade, director, Rail Undertaking and Mayor of County Galway Liam Carroll along with a number of other public figures were in attendance for the historic occasion. The station opened in time for the Galway Races and will be served by a mixture of Galway/Dublin and Galway/Athenry/Limerick services. The journey time from Oranmore to Galway is just seven minutes, and customers can travel to Limerick, Dublin and a range of intermediate stations also. Some time changes to the Galway/Dublin …