Lifestyle

A FEAST of foodie fun is set to take place across Clare and along the West coast this month when Féasta Bia celebrates the culinary delights of the Atlantic Way.

THE Mayor of Clare, Councillor Pat Hayes, this week signed the Dublin Declaration on Age Friendly Cities and Communities at a formal ceremony in City Hall, Dublin, as part of the first International Conference on Age Friendly Cities and Communities.

INDIVIDUAL budgets should be provided to people with disabilities in Clare to help them live in dignity, according to Senator Martin Conway.

BRENDAN Behan was an unfortunate genius, who ended his days living up to his reputation as a wild drinking Irishman, rather than writing what his talent was capable of. He tried to cover his failings with his wit, once describing himself as a drinker with a writing problem.

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SLAVERY exists. Newspapers are full of stories of slavery, indentured servitude and human trafficking in Ireland and abroad. The group of men freed from slavery in a Travellers’ camp in England recently is only the tip of the iceberg, according to experts.

LESSONS learned from a recent climb of Carrauntwohill, the highest mountain in Kerry, will help a group of Clare Crusaders complete one of their toughest charity crusades to date – ascending 19,340ft to the top of Kilimanjaro.

THE development of a National Garden of Commemoration and Thanksgiving in Salthill Park, Galway will help provide a place of peaceful sanctuary for Clare organ donors to remember their loved ones.