Regional

FINSA Forest Products Ltd recorded a loss of €3.4 million for the tax year 2011, according to accounts filed by the company in the last quarter of 2012.

CLARE’S Government deputies have been accused of giving a local group “false hope” about the possibility of averting the closure of Broadford Garda Station before it was officially confirmed.

The winter sun penetrates the trees at Coole Park near Gort. Photograph by John Kelly

NORTH Clare pupils received seven awards at this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2013. A West Clare school also brought home a highly-commended accolade from the 49th exhibition held in Dublin at the weekend.

THE views of the parents of Shannon children on the patronage of local primary schools are being sought by the Minister for Education, while the six Shannon schools have urged parents to take part and claim much will be lost if there are changes.

BETWEEN €25 and €30 million in grant funding could be available to households within the Ennis area as a result of an increase in the Group Sewerage Scheme grant, according to one local councillor.

A SHOOT-out at the parochial house? That’s what happened in Kinvara at dawn on Easter Tuesday morning, 1916, as police raided the house in an attempt to arrest the curate, Fr John O’Meehan, the quartermaster for the Kinvara Volunteers.

Clare County Council will spend an estimated €585,000 on the long-awaited public takeover of one of the largest housing developments in South-East Clare, it emerged this week.