Regional

ONE year after its formation, the Clooney-Quin Hill-Walking Club is going strong having held its first official hill-walking weekend in County Kerry.

NEXT weekend, a South Galway institution celebrates its fifth year bringing music into the lives of young people in the area.

A BOIL water notice introduced in Gort earlier this year remains in place despite local authority predictions it would be lifted by the beginning of the summer.

A NORTH Clare primary school hosted 27 teachers from around Europe last week as part of the EU Comenius Programme.

“THEY will rejoice with you” (Tob 13:4.) is the inscription on the commemorative stone unveiled by Minister for Defence, Tony Killeen at Coad Cemetery, Kilnaboy last Sunday.

Drivers on the N68 Kilrush to Ennis road continued to be seriously inconvenienced this week as further road closures hampered their commute from West Clare to Ennis and vice versa.

Kildysart county councillor Oliver Garry has expressed concerns that drastic cuts in hedge-cutting and verge-trimming funds will result in very few local roads in West Clare having overhanging hedges or dangerous verges trimmed.

A planning objection opposing the provision of a new dry batch concrete plant in Montpelier has prompted a row between a local soccer and community organisation.