Regional

Work on Blake’s Corner will not go ahead until 2015 at the earliest, according to a North Clare councillor. Councillor Richard Nagle made the comment after the council said no pedestrian crossing would be provided at the bridge in Ennistymon until the issue at the corner was resolved.

A FEW years after successfully campaigning to preserve their traditional weekend mass, the community close to St Vincent de Paul Church at Oatfield are faced with another battle – the need to raise €50,000 to keep a roof over their heads.

Staff and volunteers of the East Clare Community Co-op put themselves through a “baptism of mud” as they journeyed to Hell and Back in aid of the locally based counselling service.

ANTI-SOCIAL behaviour in private housing estates needs to be punished by taking away rent supplements, according to a local councillor.

Previously among the most packed-up parking areas in the town, the Cloughleigh Road is now almost unrecognisable since the introduction of pay-and-display parking.

  STUDENTS of Rice College made a ‘wheel’ effort to raise money for charity last Friday. The fifth year Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme students managed to cycle 100km in two hours and 55 minutes, raising money for both their school and Youth Suicide Prevention Ireland. It was planned that the fundraiser would involve 18 students divided into two teams for a relay race on exercise bikes to 100km. However, three of the students were unable to take part on the day, so instead they did two kilometre time trials to reach the 100km. According to teacher Aileen O’Driscoll, “They did fantastically well, we had to alter our original plan a bit but it all went really well. They all worked really hard, in fact one of them managed to do the two kilometres in just two minutes and eight seconds.” The fundraising effort has raised nearly €500, Ms O’Driscoll said. “We have over €400 collected and we’re heading for the …

A CLARE County Councillor is appealing to the local authority to take in charge a housing estate in which the sewage treatment plant overflowed four times in the last 18 months.

TWO workers from Tús, the community work placement scheme, are to start work on the grounds of Thoor Ballylee, the former home of famed Irish poet and writer, WB Yeats, it was confirmed this week.