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.
Wind turbines being installed around the county are far too high and are causing conflict in communities, which could be avoided if proper guidelines were introduced.
That was the message from councillors at Clare County Council this week, as...
With large scale housing development impossible in communities all over Clare because of the lack of wastewater infrastructure, Councillor Joe Garrihy (FG) called for developer-led modular wastewater plants to be allowed.
He said that he doesn’t feel that Clare can...
Known as the ‘Road to Nowhere’, a partially built thoroughfare in Ennis off the Gort Road, has been left unfinished for years and years.
Around half a kilometre of the officially titled Ennis Relief Road has been built,...
A number of Munster Community Games events will be held in Shannon on July 12, with thousands of people set to flock to the town.
Rob Stephen is the county chairman of Clare Community Games and he said that it...
In a first for a public park in Clare, Clare County Council commissioned the creation of in-situ tree sculptures, transforming the remains of felled trees in Shannon into woodland carvings that now dot the Town Park landscape.
The initiative,...
THE new book by Newmarket's Donnacha Ó Beacháin entitled ‘Unfinished Empire: Russian Imperialism in Ukraine and the near abroad’ has won international acclaim in the weeks since its publication.
General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the Commander in Chief of Ukraine's Armed...
