Regional

PUPILS at St Colman’s National School in New Quay this week received European recognition for their artistic endeavours.

A SMALL start-up company in North Clare is tapping into the growing market for green energy. Its founders recently saw their research into a particularly unusual type of renewable energy come to fruition having developed, it claims, the first commercial miscanthus-fired boiler in Ireland.

EAST Clare might well be represented by two TDs in the next Dáil. Indications in the General Election race suggest there is an outside chance of this result.

A SENIOR engineer in Clare County Council has confirmed that plans to carry out a full overlay of the roads affected by sewerage works in Feakle have been included in a three-year plan under the road works programme.

A South-East Galway project could bring hope to people in a time of recession, according to leading economist David McWilliams.

Coole Music School, which celebrated its fifth birthday in October 2010, will reach a new milestone this Saturday when its Youth Orchestra, under the baton of Katharina Baker, performs for the first time in the National Concert Hall, at the 16th Festival of Youth Orchestras. On the same day, The Coole Kidz Choir, conducted by Noreen McDermott, will perform at the Peace Proms Event with the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland in Leisureland, Galway.

KILKEE architect Tom Byrne, who last December made public his proposal to build a 117m pedestrian glass suspension bridge from the mainland to Bishops Island in Kilkee’s West End, made a presentation at Monday’s meeting of Kilkee Town Council.

AT a lengthy monthly meeting of Kilkee Town Council on Monday, which included 13 motions from six of the nine town councillors, it became clear that members are unhappy at the lack of progress in repairing roads, footpaths and public lights in the town.