West Clare

WILLIE MCGRATH, one of the three primary organisers of the 2012 Kilkee Strand Races held in September, has hit back at suggestions that outside traders’ presence at this year’s event in the seaside resort had anything to do with the organisers.

Clare Heritage Forum has launched a Community Built Heritage Animator Programme that will support local community groups applying for LEADER funding for projects that upgrade buildings and structures of heritage value in their local area.

KILRUSH Town Council and Clare County Council this week formally submitted a detailed bid for Kilrush as a host location for the 2013 National Famine Commemoration.

KILKEE Town Councillor Elaine Haugh-Hayes expressed concern at the council’s October monthly meeting in relation to the presence of “outside” traders at the annual Strand Races last month.

CREE-based Clean Ireland Recycling has won the accolade for Kerbside Collector of the Year at the National Repak awards.

THE second annual Strictly Come Dancing fundraiser will be held in The Armada Hotel, Spanish Point on Saturday, November 24 and Friday, November 30.

The eldest daughter of revolutionary figure Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara visited Loop Head Lighthouse last weekend, as the historic building closed its doors to the public, following the successful summer period.Figures released this week show that 17,423 people (13,441 adults, 3,982 children) visited the lighthouse from May up to last Sunday.

Three-and-a-half year-old, Rebecca Deloughery playing near the bandstand in Kilkee as the autumn sun sets. Photograph by John Kelly