Regional

A PLANNING application to develop an 82-bedroom nursing home at Monanoe, Quin has been met with local opposition.

  IN requesting that Kilrush town manager, Nora Kaye investigate the possibility of applying for an Urban Renewal Scheme for Moore Street in the town, Councillor Tom Prendeville invoked the words of Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village.

Following a visit to Hook Head Lighthouse in Wexford by Kilrush Electoral Area councillors last Wednesday, Clare County Council, along with the Commissioners for Irish Lights, are to assess the feasibility of developing a visitor centre at Loop Head Lighthouse.

ADVERSITY can strengthen bonds and that has been the case at the Gort Road Business Park over the last few months.

THE 16th festival commemorating the Russell brothers is taking place in Doolin from Friday, February 26, to Monday, March 1.

AN Ennis medical student is heading up a voluntary organisation that is planning to begin construction on a new healthcare centre in a Nepalese village this summer.

THE University of Limerick has unveiled plans to create a new access link road from the Clare campus to Gillogue, Clonlara in a bid to address existing inadequate road infrastructure for thousands of staff and students entering the facility from the region.

AN international crew, including a Killaloe coast guard member, have succeeded in completing more than half of their gruelling 5,000km row across the Atlantic Ocean.