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ENNIS Tri Club will run their first-ever duathlon to raise funds for Clare Haven Services on September 26.

APPEALING to the common decency of people to refrain from dumping domestic rubbish has fallen on deaf ears, so now Shannon Town Council is to press for the installation of CCTV cameras to catch the culprits.

A NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS man has threatened to withhold €850 from his next rates payment in protest at Clare County Council’s failure to compensate him for damage caused to his car as a result of hitting a pothole.

SCARIFF native Fr Martin Bugler left Ireland’s shores for New Zealand on November 4, 1958, the day of Pope John XXIII’s papal inauguration but he returned home to coincide with a number of other historical and memorable occasions. Fr Bugler has been based in Helensville/Haupai in northern New Zealand, close to Auckland, since 1958 but is currently in Scariff, where he is visiting. The Scariff priest had three special events happening in Ireland that led him home, the first being the international reunion at the former seminary at St Patrick’s College in Thurles. The second “highlight” as he refers to it, was that of the golden jubilee of his sister as a Sister of Mercy, while an added bonus to his visit was attending the ordination of the new Bishop of Killaloe, Kieran O’Reilly. Speaking to The Clare Champion, he recounted leaving Scariff for his new home, a six-week long voyage away. “Growing up here, in Scariff, one must remember …

KILKEE town councillors have expressed anger and surprise that a planning application to erect a 20m high communications mast on the Kilrush Road in Kilkee was not made known to them.

ALTHOUGH the Kilkee beach bylaws came into force on June 1 last, town councillors have expressed their amazement that signs indicating that the bylaws are in place were only erected in late August, towards the end of the summer season.

Twenty-one years of twinning between Lahinch and Arzon will be celebrated in the seaside resort this weekend.

A 19-year-old Parteen girl is the new Miss Clare. Alice Carroll will now represent the county at Miss Ireland in the Berkeley Court Hotel in Dublin in two weeks. The overall winner of the Miss Ireland pageant will go on to represent the country in the Miss World competition in Sanya, China on October 30.