Regional

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.

MONDAY’S meeting of Kilkee Town Council heard that Clare County Council has a winter maintenance programme plan in place to deal with a possible repeat of last winter’s severe weather, which made travel impossible in some parts of West Clare.

An Tánaiste and Minister for Education Mary Coughlan will be in South Galway next week as an invited guest of local primary and secondary schools.

Galway East TD Ulick Burke has called for the Minister for Health to intervene and protect mental health funds in his constituency and across the county.