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The Lough Derg Branch of the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (IWAI) and the O’Briensbridge Community Development Group have recently completed the first stage of a project to re-establish access to the first lock on the Errina Canal.

HERITAGE group Dúchas na Sionna launched its Shannon social history project last Friday night. The project is set to be completed by the end of the year, while a book is set to follow on from it.

SENDING representatives of Shannon Town Council to the US is a waste of money, according to Sinn Féin’s Cathy McCafferty.

THE figure for uncollected 2010 rates in Kilrush on February 1, 2011 was €109,274.09. This figure was revealed at last Thursday’s monthly meeting of Kilrush Town Council where town clerk John Corry said that some rate payers, who have yet to pay, are likely to have legal action taken against them.

IN a report to last week’s Kilrush Town Council meeting on the progress made by the West Clare Task Force committee, Kilrush and Kilkee Town Manager Nora Kaye said a survey is being conducted on how to improve signage from Killimer Car Ferry towards the Loop Head peninsula.

It is a long story. How could it be anything else when the chairman of a Kilkenny hurling club, a Clare man, not even a farmer, is organising an international sheep shearing competition.

The Department of Education and Science has advised the board of management of a North Clare school to familiarise itself “as a matter of priority,” with guidelines on the constitution of such boards and their rules of procedure.

GORT’S Wild Swans took to the air this week, winging their way to San Francisco. Thousands flocked to see them in the annual St Patrick’s Day parade, which wound its way through the city on Saturday before the real performance began on Tuesday when the theatre group staged A Wake in the West in the Californian city.