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    THE pioneering work of an Ennis gay priest is the main focus of a documentary that will be broadcast in Miltown Malbay Community Hall on Tuesday, September 24 at 8pm. “A Priest’s Testament” shot for Chanel 4 in the summer of 1987 tells the story of Fr Bernárd Lynch and his ministry to people with Aids in New York. The Ennis-born priest and psychotherapist was closely involved with the LGBT community and founded the first pastoral outreach to people with Aids in New York. He was subsequently drafted into the Mayor of New York’s Taskforce on Aids. His ministry and commitment led him into conflict with the Catholic Church authorities as well as bringing him into the most harrowing situation, preparing young people for the untimely deaths. After the film, Mr Lynch will be available for a questions and answers session. In May 2023, Clare County Council hosted a civic reception as An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (FG) led …

Uisce Éireann has said it is working to restore water supply as quickly as possible to impacted customers in West Clare following a burst watermain. The areas affected include Miltown Malbay, Spanish Point, Quilty, Mullagh, Coore, Cooraclare, Mullagh and surrounding areas in West Clare. Expert water service crews have been dispatched and are carrying out the required repair works, with the water company saying every effort is being made to complete this work as quickly as possible. The repair works are expected to be completed by 5pm today. A traffic management system will be in place for the duration of the works. Following repair works, it typically takes two to three hours for normal supply to be fully restored to all areas as the water refills the network, especially for those on higher ground or at the end of the network. A spokesperson for Uisce Éireann has assured customers that every effort is being made to carry out repairs as …

A new art installation which has the local community at its core is set to open at Miltown Malbay in mid-August. It is hoped the time machine project located at the former Bank of Ireland building on the town’s main street will enable people to experience what it is like to travel through time, and be transported from 1984 to 2084. Award winning artists Alex Gill and Maeve Stone of Cracking Light Productions have been building a time machine in Miltown Malbay. The one-of-a-kind immersive experience has been informed and inspired by conversations with local participants, and will transform the beautiful premises of the former Bank of Ireland building. The ideal location in the centre of town means visitors can experience the project in person and revisit their once bustling community bank, alongside Friel’s Pub. The bank’s new owner, Aoife O’Malley has been transforming the building into a creative hub for artists and designers, and earlier this summer she launched …

This week’s Clare Champion includes a very special, 16-page souvenir supplement to mark Clare’s success in the All-Ireland Hurling Final. In this supplement we talk to Tony Kelly, Brian Lohan, Shane O’Donnell, John Conlon, Conor Cleary, Cathal Malone, Eibhear Quilligan, Brendan Bugler, Pat O’Donnell, Tommy Corbett, Deirdre Murphy, Davy Fitzgerald and many more. We also have all the colour from before, during and after the game, the excitement from the homecoming events on Monday night and a souvenir team poster. This collector’s item is in the shops now. Below, Eoin Brennan chats to Conor Cleary. A recurrence of last year’s dislocated shoulder injury ensured that Conor Cleary would have to chew his nails on the sidelines for extra-time just like the thousands of Banner supporters in Croke Park. It was exceeding tense by that stage but despite a very auspicious treatment table of National League winning captain Cleary, Shane O’Donnell, Diarmuid Ryan and Mark Rodgers, a resilient and reshuffled pack …

More than 20 local artists and craftspeople are coming together in Miltown Malbay to undertake an initiative which could help breathe new life into the town. The Design Bank will open this Saturday on the bottom floor of the former Bank of Ireland premises in the town on a three week trial period. Hopes are high that if successful, the initiative will become a year round venture for Miltown. The unique craft space will allow customers to interact with the craftspeople themselves, either watching them as they work, or speaking to them as they manage the shop. The Design Bank is the brainchild of local woman Aoife O’Malley, the owner of the former bank. “When people go in they will see crafts people sitting at benches doing their work. There will be three benches set up for the craftspeople and there will be three other crafts people on the floor, selling and chatting to customers,” said Aoife. “The space will …

How does a small community in West Clare conceive how it will look 60 years from now in 2084? When George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949, some of his predictions were alarmingly accurate, and they were from a vantage point of 35 years prior. The town of Miltown Malbay in West Clare is currently exploring such themes in a unique time machine pilot project that it will host later this summer. Work is progressing on the project, titled ‘Room With A View’ which has been commissioned by Creative Ireland and funded under the Creative Climate Action Fund. The fund supports creative, cultural and artistic projects that build awareness around climate change and empower citizens to make meaningful behavioural transformations. Four artists were initially commissioned to spearhead the building of this time machine in the town however, two of them Brandon and Lisa Lomax have since returned home to the US for personal reasons, leaving the other couple Maeve Stone and …

MILTOWN Malbay based author, Darragh McKeon, was one of the highlights of this year’s Ennis Book Club Festival. Now based Clare, he grew up in Offaly and his debut novel All That Is Solid Melts Into Air was published in 2014 to international acclaim. It was translated into nine different languages, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and in France it won the Lire Prize for Best International Debut. His second novel Remembrance Sunday was published last year to further acclaim, with the Irish Times stating that the book’s “imaginative storytelling and fine prose of Remembrance Sunday puts McKeon in the big leagues.” Born in 1979, he is just about old enough to have a vague memory of the IRA bombing of Enniskillen on Remembrance Sunday, 1987, which saw 12 deaths. It was one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles and saw an outcry across Ireland and the UK. However when he first began work on what would …

Clare Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign Clare (IPSC) is organising another opportunity to catch a free screening of the film GAZA, this time at the Miltown Malbay Community Centre on Tuesday, March 5 at 8pm. The film which was released in 2019, was directed and produced by two Irish men, Andrew McConnell and Garry Keane. GAZA describes the unique world, rich with eloquent and resilient characters, offering us an inspiring portrait of a people, living with hope and leading meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict between 2014 and 2018. The award–winning film has real value as a compassionate human document, showing ordinary people who courageously have to keep going, somehow, in what then seemed like the grimmest of conditions, in a world where there is a “wall between the people of Gaza and life itself”. The directors bring us a revealing film showing the common frustration at living an abnormal life, under siege. You will meet, amongst others, a young …