North Clare

DESPITE many of the iconic scenes of Father Ted being filmed there, North Clare has never capitalised on its involvement in the hit TV series.

ORGANISERS of this year’s Burren Spring Conference, entitled The Burren – What is to be done? are urging local people to come along and take part.

When Mark Zuckerberg locked himself away in his Harvard dorm in 2004, he could not have predicted that he would create an online community of 500 million users.

An EU-backed eco project in North Clare could attract additional visitors and jobs to the region, according to Shannon Development.

TEN-thousand people are expected to attend two special performances of Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance taking place at the world-famous Cliffs of Moher later this year.

THOUSANDS of people are expected to come to North Clare for this year’s Russell Memorial Weekend, which takes place at the end of the month. Details of the 17th festival were revealed earlier this week.

PUPILS at St Colman’s National School in New Quay this week received European recognition for their artistic endeavours.

A SMALL start-up company in North Clare is tapping into the growing market for green energy. Its founders recently saw their research into a particularly unusual type of renewable energy come to fruition having developed, it claims, the first commercial miscanthus-fired boiler in Ireland.