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TRANSITION Town Ennis is launching a bike-recycling initiative and a family cycle programme to mark the start of National Bike Week this weekend. The events are supported by Ennis Tidy Towns and Clare County Council Environment Section respectively.Called the Bring a Bike Back initiative, the group is hoping to tap into the large amount of unused and unwanted bikes out there.Colm O’Gairbhith from Transition Town Ennis pointed out that so many homes have bikes lying around unused. “Either children grow out of them, bikes get slightly damaged and never repaired or that fitness resolution of a few years ago, which involved splashing out on a bike, got replaced by another fitness resolution. “We’re asking people to take that bike, which is just taking up space and give it to us and we’ll match it up with someone who needs a bike and can’t afford one,” he said.The initiative is being held beside the Ennis Recycling Centre in the Gort Road …

TWELVE months ago, Kilrush cyclist Paul Edson peddled from Dublin to Paris to mark his recovery from prostate cancer.

A NEW visitors’ website, www.visitmilltownmalbay.ie will be launched by Harry Hughes, administrative director of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, at a céilí mór and dance in the community hall, Miltown Malbay, on Saturday at 9.30pm.

STUDENTS at Querrin National School have recently become an official Coastcare group. The school has signed up to the national network of 121 other Coastcare groups. This project fits in very well with the school’s strong environmental ethos.

The Centre for Environmental Living and Training (CELT) in Scariff is calling for the Government to look at investing in the voluntary sector and the potential employment opportunities there, rather than targeting it for cutbacks.

AFTER months of preparation, Drumcharley National School pupils returned last weekend to their refurbished school for the reunion of the school’s closure 40 years ago.

AN Ennis man who has battled with a mental illness is now using his experiences and training to help others struggling with depression.

YOU can walk all over the place but sometimes observe very little. Ennis Walking Tours was inaugurated a couple of years ago to guide visitors around all the places of interest in the county town and two new tours are on offer this year – A