Regional

KILRUSH Community School will host a special meeting of Kilrush Town Council this Thursday morning at 9.30am.

The annual Burren Law School took place in Ballyvaughan over the weekend with messages of reform very much to the fore.

THE need for extensive reform was the key message of a number of speakers at this year’s Burren Law School in Ballyvaughan.

THE implementation of a North Clare environmentally friendly farming scheme has resulted in a dramatic reduction of 655,000kgs of silage required for 20 farms over a five-and-a-half-year period.

Seventy students from St Joseph’s Secondary School in Tulla and a number of teachers from the school completed a climb of Croke Patrick on Monday in aid of a Kenyan project that they have a very special connection with.

The community of Tulla was thrown into sadness recently at the death of Brian Culloo, the former principal of Drumcharley and St Mochulla National Schools.

Denis and Mena Hayes will celebrate their 80th birthdays this summer and they are two of the longest-serving Pioneers living in Shannon.

CLARE County Council has refused planning permission for a go-karting track at Tullyvarraga.