Regional

GOVERNMENT sanction for the expenditure of €337 million on the Limerick City regeneration project has provided a welcome lifeline for the first phase of a major three-kilometre ring road bypassing the city.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has estimated that up to 30,000 people availed of a “once in a lifetime” opportunity to walk under the River Shannon on Saturday.

SEÁN McLoughlin’s term as Mayor of Shannon came to an end at Tuesday’s meeting of the town council and he was succeeded by his party colleague Tony Mulcahy, with another Fine Gael man, Michael Fleming, elected deputy mayor.

CATHY McCafferty was a teenage protestor on Bloody Sunday and at this week’s meeting of Shannon Town Council, the Sinn Féin representative said the Saville Report had provided some closure.

Last year’s budget affected programmes run through Family Resource Centres nationwide. Gort FRC’s co-ordinatorAnnie Rozario spoke to The Clare Champion about what it is achieving against the tide of cuts.

CELEBRATED author Jennifer Johnston will provide the opening address at this year’s Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering, it was revealed this week.

FINE Gael town councillor Liam Williams was elected Mayor of Kilrush at last Thursday’s Kilrush Town Council AGM.

CLARE County Council expects the Irish Water Safety Association risk assessment of the beach in Kilkee, including the possible health and safety dangers posed by diving boards in the West End and ladders throughout the resort, to be available next week.