Lifestyle

AN O’Callaghan’s Mills woman has been doing her bit for Irish tourism by bringing a group for a short stay at An Grianán in County Louth. As part of the break, Kay Murray lined up stops at a number of well-known destinations.

The well-attended North Clare Show in Corofin was hailed as one of its best since its founding in the 1940s. The continued glorious weather brought out the crowds to savour a myriad of classes in the indoor and outdoor sections of the show.

THE search is finally over, this year’s Mr Ennis has been chosen. The title went to local man Gerry Lane, who wowed the judges at Friday’s finals in the Queens.

THE Marie Keating Foundation 5km walk was held for the third year in Shannon and will result in more than €5,000 being raised for the charity.

POKER players will know the card hand of two aces and two eights as the ‘Dead Man’s Hand’. It was the hand that Wild Bill Hickok was playing in a saloon in Deadwood City, South Dakota, when he was shot in the back by a man named Jack McCall. There is no mention of what the fifth card was.

In May 2013 the county Architectural Conservation Officer, Risteard UaCróinín recently discovered the remains of a 16th century tower house across the river from the Rowan Tree Hostel, while surveying the area of phase two of the Ennis Flood Relief Scheme.

A major step towards creating a single Sustainable Energy Strategy for the Mid-West took place at the weekend when senior public sector personnel from the region and beyond participated in a workshop at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) campus in Thurles.