Owen Ryan has been a journalist with the Clare Champion since 2007, having previously worked with a number of other publications in Limerick, Cork and Galway. His first book will be published in December 2024.
THE former Shannon Shamrock Hotel at Bunratty has been disused for years, but there are now plans for a major new development on the site.
An application has been submitted to Clare County Council by Crescent House Limited seeking permission...
AN emotional Councillor Antoinette Baker Bashua called for people with critical illnesses to be fast tracked for medical cards at this week’s meeting of Clare County Council. She said the fact that people are forced to struggle with bureaucracy...
CLARE County Councillor Pat Daly missed this week’s meeting of the local authority, as he was on a trolley at UHL.
When The Champion contacted him about a Council proposal that a site be zoned for a Model 3 Hospital...
ONE of the two Shannon-based county councillors has already been elected to the Oireachtas, and the other one could be on the way.
Fine Gael’s Tony Mulcahy is seeking election to the industrial and commercial panel of the Seanad and...
THE result of the general election means that two vacancies have to be filled on Clare County Council. Joe Cooney (FG) and Donna McGettigan (SF) have been elected TDs and the abolition of the dual mandate a number...
BACK in 1974 Cranny’s Pat Shannon was involved in the counting of the votes in that summer’s local elections.
A half century later, he spent last weekend in the West County, still part of the team making sure that the...
