West Clare

KILRUSH town councillor Ian Lynch has demanded that the National Roads Authority (NRA) furnish the town council with a signed audited report relating to safety concerns, including visibility and pedestrian movement at a key link road and junction in the town.

KATE McInerney will be forever grateful to the West Clare Mini Marathon Cancer Fund for the help afforded to her, when she was diagnosed with cancer in 2010.

THE launch of the 10-day national commemoration of the Great Famine in West Clare will coincide with a special piece of drama at Carrigaholt on May 3.

WITH the National Famine Commemoration (May 3 to 12) approaching, it is almost incomprehensible to note that Kilrush workhouse and its six auxiliaries held more than 5,000 people at one point during the Famine. However, in November 1847, it could only take about 1,100 people and by the middle of that month, Kilrush Workhouse was full.

MORE than 60 submissions have been received as part of the public consultation process on the draft Shannon Estuary Strategic Integrated Framework Plan.

TAKE Me Out West Clare Style will throw in at 8pm on Sunday evening in The Armada Hotel, Spanish Point. More regularly seen keeping the ball out of the Clare senior football team’s net, goalkeeper Joe Hayes will act as master of ceremonies.

CLARE County Council has been criticised for not ensuring that the findings of a West Clare Economic Task Force review, which was held on September 14, 2012, has not yet been made public.

IT will take several years to make any progress in relation to plans to establish Scattery Island as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The idea was first mooted in 2012 and was also discussed at the January meeting of Kilrush Town Council, when the newly established Scattery Island Heritage and Tourism Forum attended that meeting.