South Clare

Clare County Council has claimed some of the further information provided by the developers of a state-of-the-art €10 million nursing home in Westbury is “inadequate”.

Concern about the negative impact “poor infrastructure” is having on tourists and residents in Killaloe was expressed by local traders at a meeting with county councillors last week.

An experienced member of the Killaloe Coast Guard Unit will be officially honoured for completing a 5,000km row across the Atlantic Ocean with a civic reception hosted in the University of Limerick’s White House over the coming weeks.

A decision has been deferred on the proposed transfer of €500,000 from the Killaloe bypass project to kick-start the long awaited Northern Relief Road in South-East Clare.

GOVERNMENT approval for any “land grab” by Limerick City Council into South-East Clare would create “bitterness” that could last for decades, a local lobby group has warned.Former chairman of Clare Against the Boundary Extension, Jim Gully, said feelings are running high in communities throughout the region after another high-powered Government committee was given the task of examining the possibility of changing existing boundaries.Mr Gully, one of the original committee members when CABE was founded in 1996, claimed about 90% of residents surveyed in Westbury, Shannon Banks, Meelick and Parteen wish to remain in Clare under the jurisdiction of Clare County Council.Arrangements are being put in place to reactivate the committee, who will decide whether another plebiscite is necessary and whether the group will make a comprehensive submission to the new Boundary Extension Committee, chaired by Kerry Group founder, Denis Brosnan.In a study prepared by Dr Ed Walsh and Peter Coyne in June 2008, the co-authors argued that the governance of …

A PORTRAIT of Smriti, a Bangaladesh girl who was gang raped when she was just 11 years of age, is just one of a number of striking images taken by a Killaloe-based photographer in a new national exhibition, Women of Concern.

HUNDREDS of women wearing pink shirts led by well-known Munster rugby stars wives will walk across the historic bridge linking Ballina and Killaloe to raise money for breast cancer on June 19.

A former You’re A Star winner hopes her strong Clare links will help her win enough votes to represent Ireland in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo.