Regional

OVER 50 ecologists from throughout Ireland will flock to Clare this Friday and Saturday to participate in the Dromore Woods Bioblitz 2011.

THE wind of change was blowing in Spanish Point this week for the participants of the St Joseph’s Secondary School Living Scenes programme, who decided to go fly a kite. 

IN Cappa last Saturday, well-known marine correspondent Tom MacSweeney officially named the new Kilrush RNLI Atlantic 85 lifeboat, Edith Louise Eastwick at the lifeboat station. Tom named the lifeboat in memory of the mother of the late Baroness Marjorie Von Schlippenbach.

NEW Senator Tony Mulcahy’s seat on Shannon Town Council will be filled by 35-year-old Vincent Coleman.

DR Pat O’Connor, director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, launched a selection of free educational packs on the Burren in Lisdoonvarna last week.

Past pupils and teachers of Knockjames National School will flock to Tulla from across Ireland and the world to attend a reunion on June 4.

Quin county councillor Sonny Scanlan has said the “country has gone mad” after he understood it would cost €6,000 to remove a number of telephone poles, which were holding up footpath works at Quin’s community playground.

FOLLOWING the signing of contracts, the refurbishment and energy efficiency upgrade of 11 occupied houses in Wilson Road, Wood Road and Beech Park commenced on Monday.