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East Clare is to benefit from a new traditional music festival this year as renowned guitarist and fiddle player Ged Foley sets the wheels in motion for the inaugural East Clare Fiddle Festival from June 30 to July 3.
Read More »Competition result is blooming great for Mary in Canada
Selected as the pick of the bunch to represent Ireland at the Canada Blooms flower-arranging show, Feakle woman Mary McKee returned from the international competition recently with a bronze ribbon award.
Read More »International anglers at Tommy Giblin event
Anglers from Ireland, England and France, some internationally known, will throw fly lines on Lough Derg on Sunday in the annual competition that perpetuates the memory of the late Tommie Giblin from nearby Aughrim.
Read More »Groups unite to spring Eircom broadband into action
KILKISHEN Development Association, Kilmurry Community Association and the local branch of the IFA have come together to form an alliance to try to spring Eircom into action to enable the 367-telephone exchange for broadband.
Read More »Gardaí appointed to community alert groups
COMMUNITY alert groups across East Clare are to be re-invigorated as part of a garda plan to increase community awareness and involvement across the Scariff district.
Read More »Funding cuts restrict roadworks
Projects planned for East Clare under the council’s road works programme for 2010 have been shelved to allow for required maintenance works to be carried out in the wake of the inclement weather experienced.
Read More »2,000 get-well wishes for Sr Bosco
WELL-known teaching nun, Sr Bosco has attributed her recovery from a stroke last year to the 2,000 get well cards and letters sent to her while she was sick.
Read More »Call for action on Quin school extension
THE Board of Management at Scoil na Mainistreach in Quin has highlighted the pressing need for the national school to be extended and has urged for the Department of Education to make this move sooner rather than later.Despite lodging an application for an extension with the department in 2001 and following this up with a detailed application in 2005 outlining projected enrolment figures up to 2014, the school remains on the to-do list.With numbers having jumped dramatically from 148 pupils in 2005 to 224 this year and with projected enrolment at 250 for September, school principal Anne Fitzpatrick is concerned that temporary prefabs are no longer sustainable.“Small schools have received devolved grants and we would ask the department to grant these devolved grants to medium-sized schools. We are in a situation where our only option is to wait in this queue. It’s very frustrating that we have to operate in substandard and cramped conditions. We need to do this for …
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