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Karina Murray was 34-years-old before she attended her first LGBT+ event in Clare. Unlike most counties in Ireland, Clare has had virtually no visibility amongst the LGBT+ community. This resulted in countless Clare people feeling unsafe to remain in their home town or village, with thousands emigrating to Dublin or abroad in recent decades. Karina has been heavily involved in Quare Clare for a number of years and was one of the organisers behind Clare’s first Pride celebration which took place in Shannon in 2022. She says that, growing up in Shannon, it simply wasn’t safe to come out. “I was 34 before I attended a LGBT+ event in Clare. It was amazing, I spent all of my time going to Dublin,” she said. “The impact of no visibility is that you leave. When I was old enough, I left and went to Dublin, then I went to Toronto for a few years. That is the same for a lot …

SHANNON pro boxer David Ryan will fight for the Irish super lightweight title in December, with ‘The Machine’ set to face Kildare’s Senan Kelly. Both fighters are undefeated, Ryan at 6-0 and Kelly at 9-0, and the fight will take place in Waterford on December 7. It will be on a card topped by Deise fighter Dylan Moran and Belfast’s Tyrone McKenna. It will be Ryan’s third fight of 2024, and the highlight of his career so far came in May when he picked up the BUI Celtic title, the first belt of the former kickboxer’s boxing career. On Tuesday he said he was delighted that the Kelly fight has been locked down. “I’m buzzing to be honest with you,” he said. “It was hard work to get it over the line, having it on a neutral show and all of that.” Ryan’s last victory, when he took that BUI Celtic title with a victory over Tony McGlynn, was almost …

EWELINA Hrynkiewicz-Kucybala is currently preparing for the BodyBuilding World Championships, having enjoyed a lot of success already. “I am in the Republic of Ireland BodyBuilding Federation, I’m an Irish champion, a European champion and I’m competing in the World Championship in eight weeks in Tokyo,” she says. Ewelina competes in the Masters section of bikini wellness. “There are two main bikini categories, bikini fitness and bikini wellness,” she said. “The difference between the two is that in my category you have to have disproportion between the upper body muscles and the lower body muscles. “The lower body needs to be bigger so I mostly train legs and glutes.” The sport involves very specific training. “I follow a specific plan towards my goals, which is building the lower body muscles. I have a training programme that includes four gym sessions a week, one is upper body and three of them are lower body workouts,” she said. “I have cardio sessions as …

LOCAL artist Christina Bennett is working on a film about the early days of Shannon, entitled Sionna Go Breá. She took the title from a song that was frequently sung at a youth club she used to go to in the town back in the 1970s. “Seán Ó Nuanáin used to run a little club for us all called Club na Sionna. He arrived in 1964. He got very interested in the Irish language, and when he arrived there would have just been the flats,” she said. “They were building Drumgeely and Drumgeely Hall was there, it was the only community outlet they had. He set up a youth club delivered in Irish called Club na Sionna and when I went to it in the 70s we used to sing Sionna Go Breá every night and that’s what I called the film.” Like many others, Christina arrived from the North in the 1970s and is also working on a film …

THOUSANDS of people from all over Ireland attended a protest against the US military use of Shannon Airport this afternoon. From early in the afternoon Gardai closed off the main road to and from the airport, but entry and departure was faciliated by alternative routes. This evening Shannon Airport released a statement which said that access had been maintained throughout the afternoon and operations were not affected. Earlier this year protestors had staged a sit down protest which blocked all traffic from entering or leaving for a period of time, but Gardai were prepared today, and the same issues did not arise, despite a huge number of protestors attending. From early in the afternoon there were cars and buses parked all over Drumgeely, such was the attendance. Some residents were understandably put out at the inconvenience caused by the huge numbers taking over all available parking spaces in a part of the town where there are many older people. Protestors …

A Shannon family whose 16 year-old daughter died in an overcrowded Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) are demanding the immediate publication of a major report into her death. Aoife Johnston, Cronan Lawn, Shannon, died of meningitis in December 2022 after suspected sepsis that allegedly went untreated for more than 12 hours. Two months after the completion of an investigation into her death, conducted by former Chief Justice Frank Clarke, the Johnston family have expressed deep disappointment at the report they have been given, accusing the HSE of failing them and their late daughter again. Speaking on RTÉ’s Drivetime, the family’s solicitor, Damien Tansey, said the Johnstons consider the Clarke report as “utterly superficial”. Mr Tansey said that from the outset of the unpublished report, “it appears that the investigator, the former Chief Justice Clarke had a meeting with a senior counsel appointed by Mr [Bernard] Gloster” the HSE Chief Executive, indicating that there were “significant limitations and restrictions” …

The death of a Shannon teenager in the overcrowded Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) was “almost certainly avoidable”, a new report has revealed. Aoife Johnston, Cronan Lawn, Shannon, died of meningitis in December 2022 after a thirteen and a half hour gap between presentation at the Emergency Department having been seen by a GP who queried the possibility of sepsis and where the risk of sepsis was also identified by Nurse A who dealt with her, according to a new report. The Frank Clarke report was commissioned by HSE CEO Bernard Gloster after he received the report of a Systems Analysis Review (a SAR report), prepared under the HSE’s National Incident Management System (NIMS). Mr Gloster commissioned the Clarke report having considered the conclusions of the SAR and having determined that further investigation was necessary. At the start of his 247-page report, Justice Frank Clarke recognised this Investigation arose out of the tragic death of a sixteen year- …

HIGH levels of remote working are said to be a major part of the reason that Intel Research & Development is to close in Shannon by the end of September 2025. A company spokesperson said that at present the Shannon premises reaches 40% occupancy on just one day a week, with all the other days having even lower levels of occupancy. While the premises is closing, the jobs are not being axed, and as yet the company are not sure what adjustments will be made. The spokesperson said that there may be a move to hot desking in another location, for certain people at certain times. She said that at present decisions on remote working at Shannon are made manager by manager, and currently there are overall high levels of remote work, significantly diminishing the need for it to maintain the building. In a statement to the Clare Champion, Intel said, “We are shifting our global real estate strategy to …