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A GROUP of 24 pupils and three teachers from St Flannan’s College took part in Euroscola in Strasbourg this week.
Read More »Guinness flows from Killaloe to Limerick
A RETIRED Killaloe boatman toasted the 50th anniversary of the last Guinness cargo to travel by canal to Limerick with a pint of plain last Thursday.
Read More »Courthouse in the dock over lack of use
Clare County Councillors have placed an old historic courthouse in Killaloe in the dock over its lack of use.
Read More »Novena to offer spiritual response to addiction
THIS year’s Matt Talbot Novena will kick off next Tuesday, when Br Martin Browne of Glenstal Abbey comes to Shannon. It will then continue every Tuesday night until November 30, with different preachers every week.
Read More »Delays to affordable housing scheme
CLARE County Council has said that the affordable housing scheme at Cluain Airne is now unlikely to be completed until next year.
Read More »Long wait over for school extension
IT is nine years since the first letter was sent on behalf of the board of management of Gort Community School to the planning officer in the Department of Education.
Read More »New committee launches Cooley Collins festival
THE launch of this year’s Cooley Collins Traditional Festival takes place in Harte’s Pub on Bridge Street, Gort next Monday from 8pm to 10pm with Kevin Rohan of Galway Bay FM.
Read More »Celebrating 40 years of music in Feakle
AN East Clare bar is marking 40 years of unbroken traditional music sessions next week.Shortt’s Bar in Feakle has been hosting the popular session every Thursday at 10pm since 1970.
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