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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.

CUBAN Ambassador, Teresita Trujillo visited the Loop Head Lighthouse last Saturday. The visit was part of the Ambassador’s visit to West Clare to open the inaugural Che do Bheatha festival in Kilkee to commemorate the visit of Che Guevera there in 1961.

SHANNON suffered a double whammy on the jobs front this week with the shedding of 75 jobs at the technology support company, Sykes Enterprises and the closure of the discount retailer, BuyLo in the town centre.

“A rollercoaster journey full of highs and lows” is how one North Clare student described the thrilling experience of climbing 19,340 feet to the top of the highest mountain in Africa, Kilimanjaro, recently.

IRELAND Reaching Out, the pilot project developed in South-East Galway from October 2010 through to July 2011 and culminating in a Week of Welcomes in June, is to expand countrywide.