Lifestyle

The overall winner of the farm safety poster and slogan competition run by the Health and Safety Authority and Clare Education Centre has been announced as fourth-class pupil Leah Callaghan of Knockerra National School.

A new website has been launched to help promote the folklore and oral history of Clare. www.clarememories.ie is the website of Cuimhneamh an Chláir, the Clare Oral History and Folklore Group, who have been documenting the memories of Clare’s oldest citizens over the last two years.

The wet weather did not succeed in dampening the spirits of a healthy attendance at Tullabrack last Saturday for the ninth West Clare Horse Show, a number of which indulged in the various attractions on offer such as showjumping, which this year included a well-contested Puissance, ­Connemara pony classes, showing classes, lunging, bouncy castle, sports competition, dog show and musical entertainment.

Parties can promise what they like at election time but we have a constitution, which limits what they can do.

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WHEN Kevin O’Brien lights the bonfire at McNamara’s Bridge on the Tulla Road outside Crusheen on Saturday evening, it’ll signal another chapter in a tradition that goes back over a century.

In August 2010, a Clare Champion article informed readers of my search for descendants of the Crohan (also Croghan) family who worked on the mile-long Virginia Blue Ridge Tunnel. The train tunnel—along with three shorter tunnels and 34 miles of connecting tracks—was a dangerous, 10-year public works project between 1850 and 1860. The entire endeavor took the lives of more than 200 Irish famine emigrants. About 100 were Blue Ridge Tunnel workers or family members living in shanties near each portal.

PEOPLE in Clare who want to get fit and raise money for a worthy local charity have been presented with the ideal opportunity to kill two birds with the one stone.