by Paraic McMahon Four rural and community development officers will be engaging with towns and villages all over Clare to empower the entire county. At last Tuesday’s meeting of the Rural Development SPC, Director of Rural Development, Leonard Cleary introduced the quartet that have been employed by Clare County Council since the summer. Although they …
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Sally Smith from Open Sesame explains how you can tackle the issue of hypothyroidism. Call 065 6821480 for tickets to Thursday’s event. At Open Sesame one of the most common medications we hear of people taking is the thyroid hormone supplement, Eltroxin. With an estimated 15 in 1000 women and 1 in 1000 men suffering …
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(Pictured, Cllr Gabriel Keating Photo credit Gary Collins) by Páraic McMahon COLÁISTE Eoghain Uí Chomhraidhe’s exclusion from the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund has been with anger and disappointment from elected members of Clare County Council. Cllr Gabriel Keating stated he “was very sad” that the Irish college in Carrigaholt was not included in the …
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(above) artist’s impression of Coonagh campus LIT’s plans to Expand it’s Presence in Ennis & Develop an Engineering Focused Campus in Coonagh is good news for Education and Industry in Clare – Minister Pat Breen. Minister for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market & Data Protection Pat Breen has described the Government’s €11.9 billion …
writes Darach Honan, trusted independent financial advisor with IPS Financial Advice SOME 400,000 people living in Ireland have worked in the UK. Despite this large number, only a small percentage of these people are optimizing the pension benefits available to them. This can be for several reasons, but most commonly, people do not understand or …
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At what point does an amount of money become too much money? Let me be more specific — at what point does Skoda — which has become amazingly successful in the past decade, and which has long since left its bargain-basement roots behind — become too expensive? Possibly the perfect case for this point, is …
CLARE County Councillors threw a curve ball into the Presidential race on Monday evening. Granted, out of 28 councillors in the Banner county, it took the votes of just seven of them to do so, most of them abstaining. Many pundits had thought that the announcement of Sinn Féin’s Liadh Ní Riada would be the …
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WORKS at Blake’s Corner will not be complete until the end of 2021 at the earliest. Clare County Council aim to complete a “detailed design” of the project in early 2019, subject to approval from Transport Infrastructure Ireland they hope to put works to tender later that year and award a tender in the spring …
CLARE is losing part of its culture and history as a 430 year old table made from wood of the Spanish Armada is to go on sale at an auction. In the autumn of 1588 as many as 27 ships of the Spanish Armada were lost off the Irish coast, two of them were lost …
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CLARE’S newest development, Sycamore Drive, is turning buyers’ heads with only one home remaining in Phase One of this turnkey offering. Patrick Keogh of Pat Keogh Construction has revealed that work is now well under way of the luxury 47-home development which was launched last month by sole agents, DNG O’Sullivan Hurley. Sycamore Drive will …
