Regional

Women in Clare will be left without a voice if the Clare Women’s Network is forced to close because of Government cutbacks, the director of the National Women’s Council of Ireland, Susan McKay has warned.

THE development of a state-of-the art sports complex costing over €8 million on a floodplain of the Clare campus of the University of Limerick has been approved by Clare County Council, despite flooding concerns expressed by a local family.

CLARE County Council has granted planning permission for a 30-metre communications mast on the grounds of St Senan’s Rugby Club. Objections had been made to the development and residents living nearby claimed it was completely unsuitable.

From an inch to six miles, Tulla man Ray McInerney’s career began at a school with just 29 pupils. He is currently in charge of 375 young learners but next month he takes over at the helm of the county’s largest national school that boasts a roll of almost twice that number.

This will be a milestone year for the Cooley Collins Traditional Music Festival. As well as marking its silver anniversary, one of the festival’s organisers is retiring from the committee after two decades of continuous involvement.

Gerry Howard is a late entry into a volatile profession. He told The Clare Champion how he went from butcher and hotelier to Kissing Sid James.

Doonbeg will host the 10th annual Willie Keane Memorial Festival on the October Bank Holiday weekend. The festival will commence on Friday, October 23 and will conclude on Sunday, October 25.

A CLARE man in Australia and has spent the last three years working on a project that could potentially be worth millions of dollars to the country’s fishing economy.