Regional

THE leasing of the playground at Inis Ealga to local residents for a nominal fee provoked lively debate at Tuesday’s Shannon Electoral Area meeting.

SHANNON Area Councillors criticised Avoca Handweavers this week, for failing to make repairs after their building was damaged by fire in October 2007.

MASS immigration into Ireland in the last decade put a strain on schools and one of the new difficulties was dealing with pupils who weren’t fluent in English. However, at St Patrick’s Comprehensive, an after-school English Club was established to help the new arrivals.

Government cuts almost forced the cancellation of one of South Galway’s premier music events, it was revealed this week.

Young people in South Galway and North Clare are set to have a new social outlet shortly, as it was announced this week that the old courthouse in Kinvara is to become home to the Kinvara Youth Project.

A Kinvara school could be the answer to a shortage of second-level places across South Galway identified by the Commission on Schools Accommodation, according to a group of campaigners in the area.RESCUE, the umbrella group established to campaign for the retention of secondary education in Kinvara, believes that Seamount College is ideally positioned to offer a solution to South Galway’s secondary school accommodation shortage.

Adult education is growing in popularity countywide and North Clare is no exception. Family-orientated courses, a marked increase in the number of male participants and a greater range of programmes are some of the changes that have taken place to the field in recent years.

THE three little pigs didn’t quite have it right, it should have been clay, straw, sand and water – mixed. Or at least that is the message from the Boghill Centre in Kilfenora, which is about to host a course on cob building.