West Clare

LAST Thursday night an old Kilrush song, Kilrush Town by Fr John Considine, was performed in Teach Cheoil by fifth-class pupils from St Senan’s National School (trained by Linda O’Gorman); An Banna Ceoil (trained by Bríd O’Mahony) and a group from Kilrush Community School.

Owners of derelict sites in Kilrush who don’t repair them will find their building placed on the Derelict Sites Register. A number of buildings in Moore Street, which was once Kilrush’s main trading street, have been left derelict.

Scoil Réalt na Mara, Kilkee, which won an award of excellence in the Science and Maths Programme in 2009 and 2010, has now become one of the first schools in Clare to install a rainwater harvesting scheme and is saving 5,000 litres of water weekly as a result.

WHEN General Election candidates call to people in West Clare in the coming weeks, what issues are likely to be raised on the doorsteps? According to The Clare Champion vox pop carried out in Kilrush last week, the unemployment crisis, reform of the Dáil and Seanad, an end to parish pump politics, investment in education and the future of Ennis hospital are the concerns that candidates are likely to hear about in Kilrush and throughout West Clare.

ALTHOUGH the National Roads Authority (NRA) €5,450,934 allocation to Clare for the maintenance of national roads in the county was the lowest in Munster, several projects in West Clare will benefit.

KILRUSH and West Clare people or visitors to the area who like the idea of taking a late night walk deep into Kilrush Wood, can now do just that, safe in the knowledge that they won’t get lost.

HAVING been treated for a cancerous tumour at the Mid-West Cancer Centre in Dooradoyle four years ago, Kevin Shalloo is aiming to raise funds for the centre on Saturday, April 9, with a cycle from Limerick to Kilkee. A regular triathlon and dualathlon participant, Kevin is also actively involved in GAA and has played senior football for Kilkee and O’Curry’s. He is currently part of the Coolmeen junior football team management.“We’re hoping to have it on April 9. The idea is to get 100 bikes to do 100 kilometres. Although it’s going to be a little bit more than 100km because we’re going to come the back way and stay off the motorway,” Kevin explained.While anybody who can cycle will be able to take part, Kevin is hopeful that members of Limerick Triathlon Club, Ennis Triathlon Club, West Clare Cycling Club and Dolmen Cycling Club in Ennis will register.“We’re looking for anyone who is interested in taking part or who …

The committee representing tourism interests in the Loop Head peninsula will man a stand at the Holiday World Show in the RDS, Dublin, from January 28 to January 30.