West Clare

RYAN Tubridy broadcast his RTÉ  Radio 1 morning show live from Tubridy’s bar in Cooraclare on Tuesday morning.Among the guests was Pat ‘Butcher’ McCarthy from Quilty, who revealed the variety of nicknames that people in his parish answer to. Mark Tubridy, son of bar proprietors Martin Noel and Ann, also spoke to Mr Tubridy as part of a sports panel with Clare camogie player, Deirdre Murphy and RTÉ GAA commentator, Marty Morrissey.Cooraclare man Martin Morrissey and Coolmeen’s Grace Lynch spoke about the unemployment situation in West Clare, along with Clare Champion journalist Peter O’Connell.Other guests included Muiris Ó Rócháin from the Willie Clancy Summer School, Ben Escorcio, a finalist in the All-Ireland Talent Show, Keith Wood and John Rattigan, curator of the Clare County Museum.Siobhán King, Shannon Development tourism officer for Clare said, “We were delighted to assist the programme producers with their outside broadcast. Over 350,000 people listen to the Tubridy radio show and it was a great opportunity …

Fine Gael TD Pat Breen and his party colleague, Councillor Oliver Garry, held a meeting with Hutchinson 3G in Dublin last week to discuss the ongoing controversy surrounding their plans to erect a mast in Kildysart.

AT next Monday’s meeting of Clare County Council, West Clare Fine Gael Councillor Gabriel Keating will table a motion requesting the council to compile a database of unemployed skilled and unskilled workers in Clare, in conjunction with the

A public meeting at Kilrush Golf Club on Monday at 8pm will focus on what Fine Gael Deputy Pat Breen terms the “confusion” surrounding the introduction of the Government’s new Nursing Home Support Scheme, known as Fair Deal, which came into effect last October.

The imminent closure of Connolly Post Office will mean that there will be no full post office services in Kilmaley, Connolly, Inagh or Kilnamona in a few weeks’ time.

  IN requesting that Kilrush town manager, Nora Kaye investigate the possibility of applying for an Urban Renewal Scheme for Moore Street in the town, Councillor Tom Prendeville invoked the words of Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village.

Following a visit to Hook Head Lighthouse in Wexford by Kilrush Electoral Area councillors last Wednesday, Clare County Council, along with the Commissioners for Irish Lights, are to assess the feasibility of developing a visitor centre at Loop Head Lighthouse.

EX-TD George Lee, who dramatically resigned from Fine Gael and Dáil Éireann on Monday, gave his last public appearance as a party member at the Kilrush Chamber dinner dance last Friday.Lee, who gave no clue of his impending decision, did, however, signal his unease at his dual role of being a politician and economist. In pointing to the need for solutions to the current recession, he said that people were always “giving out” in the Dáil.“I think, fair enough, that is Irish politics. But we really need to change. We need to work on solutions. These are going to be very difficult solutions. Finding the solutions to where we are now is new. It is difficult because we have never been in this situation before,” he stated.   The economist and former RTÉ correspondent, who had been asked to be guest speaker at the function by Clare TD Pat Breen, remarked on how happy and relaxed everybody, seemed before speaking for …