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A BARREL of Heineken was consumed with relish by members of the Finnerty’s Bar team who won the tug-of-war competition during the Tubber Show Festival.

THE Tour de Munster is a four-day, 600km cycle in support of Down Syndrome Ireland, which will make its way through the province from August 8-11 and a young Clare man is making a video to thank all those taking part.

Five Clare students will be heading to the United States after being honoured with Fulbright Awards.

MEMBERS of Clare Civil Defence have participated in a largescale drill (pictured) focusing on further improving responses to major emergencies, search and recovery, environmental issues, stewarding, flooding problems and forest fires.

LISCANNOR singer Maeve Curry made a very high profile debut in Riverdance recently when she performed as lead vocalist at the special performance for Michelle Obama and her daughters in Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre. 

FROM the 1300s onwards, Irish men had fought in the armies of various different countries and also navies.

  MORE than 1,000 people visited Scattery Island last weekend for the inaugural island Gathering festival. The tranquil island on the Shannon Estuary was resplendent under the weekend summer sun. Dr Bernadette Whelan of the University of Limerick’s History Department was the guest speaker at the event, which was organised by the Scattery Island Heritage and Tourism Group. “When I met the group for the first time, back in September, it was very clear that this weekend’s series of events would take place because this is a dedicated and committed group of people, with a shared interest, willing to work for the good of the local and wider community. “For you living here in Kilrush, looking out on Scattery Island/Inis Cathaigh every day, you know that Scattery Island had its own people, the islanders, from the monks, to the fishermen, the farmers, the pilots, the teachers, men, women and children lived there until the late 1970s, when Bobbi and Patty …

THE heat of the late evening sun enveloped the Keavey family homestead west of the Crosses of Annagh last Sunday evening. Far across the freshly cut fields, the Atlantic glistened blue and serene, as news filtered through of Kilmurry Ibrickane’s latest O’Gorman Cup success in neighbouring Doonbeg.