*Photograph: John Mangan A MAN accused of sexually assaulting a girl has obtained a restraining court order against the girl’s parents from stalking him.
*A CGI impression of the new Lahinch Clubhouse. CASH-rich Lahinch Golf Club is set to spend €6.1m on its club-house redevelopment on the back of bumper green fee receipts since Covid-19.
*FILE PIC. Photograph: Martin Connolly THE clean-up bill for Swiss pharma giant, Roche’s former Clarecastle manufacturing site now totals €95.6m in what the company describes as “one of the largest remediation projects of its type in Europe”.
*JJ McCabe. Photograph: Dermot Hayes. A JOINT venture property firm controlled by colourful, multi-millionaire bachelor farmer, John Joseph (JJ) McCabe last year recorded post tax profits of €328,740.
*Photograph: John Mangan A 30-year old Ennis man threatened a hitch-hiker that he would set him alight after pulling out a plastic bottle full of petrol if he did not pay money for his lift, it has been alleged in court.
*Ballymacraven River. AN BORD PLEANÁLA has refused planning permission to an Ennistymon farmer in a planning row between two North Clare farm households.
*Fr Harry Bohan. Photograph: Eamon Ward PROMINENT CLARE priest, Fr Harry Bohan has expressed fears for local retailers in Sixmilebridge in response to plans by German discount giant, Lidl to construct a new store there.
*Caherlohan. CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL has stalled plans by Clare GAA to expand and redevelop the county’s GAA Centre of Excellence due to concerns over the EU protected Lesser Horseshoe Bat.
*Photograph: John Mangan A GOVERNMENT department has intervened in plans by Clare GAA to expand and redevelop its Centre of Excellence due to concerns for the EU protected Lesser Horseshoe Bat.
*Flora Crowe. A SIXMILEBRIDGE retailer has told a court that she and her staff “now operate under a cloud of fear’” after three armed robberies on her businesses over the space of ten days.