Regional

FAMILY and friends are rallying around Shannon man Keith Gibbons by raising funds so the 34-year-old can undergo expensive critical medical treatment in the United States.

ELIMINATING the risk of repeated flooding in parts of South-East Clare will be extremely difficult, a local county councillor has warned.

THE refurbishment of Ennis’ oldest building is set to cost Ennis Town Council €170,000, even though the building is not owned by the local authority.

A North Clare club for children with special needs is embarking on a fundraising drive and is calling on the public to support its unusual endeavour. No Limits Surf Club, Abilities Not Disabilities, facilitates young people with special needs in learning how to surf.

LADY Augusta Gregory’s achievements are immense. As well as establishing Coole as a linchpin of the Irish Literary Revival, she co-founded the Abbey Theatre, wrote plays that were performed across the world, was a pioneering folklorist and a close friend and patron of WB Yeats. George Bernard Shaw called her “Ireland’s greatest living Irishwoman”.

Clare County Council is on target to complete its current roadworks programme in East Clare by the end of this year, according to a local authority engineer.

THE cost of parking in Ennis is “crippling business”, according to one local councillor, who this week claimed “if we don’t reduce the cost, we will be in serious trouble”.

A COUNSELLING service for people living in the Killaloe and Ballina areas will be launched in a local family resource centre next week.