53% drop in military traffic
WHILE Shannon Airport’s assets were valued at €105.5 million when granted separation from the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), the airports had a turbulent 2012, with the lucrative US military transits through Shannon down by a whopping 53%.
Read More »‘Hate mail’ sent to Dáil deputies
TWO of Clare’s Oireachtas members have received abusive correspondence from pro-choice and pro-life campaigners about proposed abortion legislation, it emerged this week.
Read More »White-tailed eagle hatched in Mountshannon
WHITE-tailed sea eagles nesting on Bushy Island in Lough Derg have hatched a chick, the first hatched in the wild in Ireland in more than 100 years.
Read More »‘Six months of torture’ over for former mayor
A FORMER Fianna Fáil county councillor has expressed his delight that “a long six months of torture” has ended but said questions remain to be answered after a complaint of plagiarism was made against him relating to his masters’ thesis, four years after he graduated.
Read More »Culled mart records €101,981 net profit
Sixmilebridge Co-Operative Mart has recorded profits of €101,981 in its full year of trading, despite being culled as a loss-making mart by previous owners Golden Vale Marts in 2009.
Read More »Questions over Frances Street upgrade
WHEN President Michael D Higgins delivers his address to the National Famine Commemoration in Kilrush on Sunday, he will do so on a pristinely refurbished Frances Street.
Read More »Ambassador’s wife comes home to the west
Patricia Dubois Zanini, wife of Italian Ambassador Maurizio Zanini, will visit her ancestral home on Sunday for the National Famine Commemoration in Kilrush. Approximately 43 ambassadors are expected in the West Clare town for the commemoration, which will also be attended by President Michael D Higgins. Patricia Dubois Zanini visited Kilrush twice in 2012. Along with her sister she visited their ancestral Bulger and Scanlan family graves. They paid their respects at the family plot where those buried include three children of Daniel Scanlan Bulger, who died in infancy in 1867, 1872 and 1874; John Bulger (died 1836) and Mary Bulger née Scanlan (died 1864), probably Daniel’s parents; and Daniel Scanlan and Ellen Scanlan née Kelly (both died 1830), probably Mary’s parents and thus the great-great-great-great-great-grandparents of the younger visitors. Patricia Zanini’s great-grandmother, Anne Bulger, was born in 1875 in Kilrush, where her father, Daniel Scanlan Bulger, ran a loan office and other businesses in Moore Street. The Bulger …
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