East Clare

East Clare Community Cooperative has said new legislation recently introduced to ease the regulatory burden on co-operative societies is a step in the right direction.

  A NEW traffic plan will be implemented in Scariff from next Tuesday and motorists are being advised to be mindful of the changes, which will see a one-way system introduced on Main Street and Jones’ Road. Motorists will now only be able to travel one way in a northbound direction on Main Street from Scariff Bridge to the Market House and one way in a southbound direction on Jones’ Road from the green to the ambulance station. Other roads are to remain the same. The traffic management plan is to facilitate additional car parking in the town, at the Main Street and the town square. Senior executive engineer for the Killaloe Electoral Area, Hugh McGrath said, weather permitting, it is expected to unveil signage and lay new road markings next Tuesday and begin the plan that afternoon. In addition to the one-way systems, he outlined a new parking arrangement will be put in place. “There will be a restriction …

MOUNTSHANNON people showed the huge interest they have in their own community when they made a presentation to Pride of Place judges, Blaise Treacy and Declan Nelson, on Tuesday.

This year’s Waterways Ireland Scariff Harbour Festival will celebrate its inland waterways link with Northern Ireland in a new launch event involving young East Clare people.

An Italian doctor’s chance discovery of the therapeutic effects of Irish set dancing in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD) will be the subject of an international gathering of musicians and minds next month.

AN irate resident, upset at the installation of double yellow lines outside his house in Feakle, vented his frustration at a local authority engineer it was claimed at a recent meeting.

A DOCUMENTARY film cataloguing 25 years of the International Feakle Festival is to be screened on TG4 later this month, ahead of this year’s annual festival.

Onlookers in Mountshannon are awaiting the much-anticipated flight from the nest of Ireland’s first white-tailed sea eagle chicks to be born in the wild in over 110 years.