North Clare

AN appeal has been lodged with An Bord Pleanála after Clare County Council granted planning permission for retention permission for an extension to an existing agricultural shed at Finavarra, along with permission for the lowering of existing roofline of the extension and completion of works.

North Clare schools continue to punch above their weight in the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, accounting for 15 of County Clare’s 18 qualifying entries this year.

A striped dolphin was discovered alive and stranded at Lahinch on Sunday but despite efforts to take the dolphin out to deeper water, the mammal had to be put down.

CLARE County Council has received a planning application for the construction of enhanced parking facilities at the site of a former controversial and ill-fated interpretative centre in the Burren National Park.

THE organisation responsible for the conservation of wild salmon has expressed “very significant concern” about the scale of a proposed deep-sea salmon farm off the North Clare coast.

THE applicants for the proposed Galway Bay salmon farm, Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), have been accused of failing to post to their website a damning report on the possible environmental impact of the project, which has the potential to create up to 500 jobs.

A CORK man is searching for potential Clare cousins, having followed his ancestral line back to the 1600s. John Clohessy from the Old Youghal Road in Cork believes he may have family in North Clare after his grand-uncle migrated to Ennistymon around 1888.

LISCANNOR ladies came together in recent weeks to form a new Irish Countrywomen’s Association guild in the North Clare village.