Regional

ENNIS student Indre Barakauskaite showed her support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month at UCD campus recently, where students got behind Ballygowan Pink’s B Part Of It campaign.

FULL planning permission was granted this week by Ennis Town Council for the relocation of Ennis National School to Ashline on the Kilrush Road in the county town.

A JAPANESE representative of local government and the Shizouka Research Institute met with members of the Ennis Tidy Towns group this week to learn from them how they have achieved repeated high standards in the national Tidy Towns competition.

FIRECRACKERS may have illuminated the sky over the River Shannon in O’Briensbridge on Sunday night but the owner and staff in an award-winning local hostelry were in no mood for celebration before it closed its doors for the last time.

CONCERN has been expressed that resurfacing works will only take place on the Clare side of the bridge at Ballina and Killaloe.

MORE than €3m has already been spent on the stalled Cluain Airne social housing scheme, this week’s meeting of Shannon Town Council heard.

VANDALS broke into Ss John and Paul Church in the early hours of last Friday morning, causing damage to locks, windows and shrines.

IF draft Casual Trading Bylaws are adopted in Kilrush, street traders, with some exceptions, would have to hold a casual trading licence for a specified event. This would include people who sell Christmas trees in Kilrush town square. They would have to pay a daily fee of €12.70 for their casual trading licence.