Burren Slow Food Festival simmers for twentieth run
*Burren Oysters. Photograph: Eamon Ward IRELAND’s longest-running slow food festival returns to the Burren for its twentieth year.
Applications open for casual trading licenses for St Nicholas Summer Market
CASUAL trading licences are now being accepted by Galway County Council for the St. Nicholas Summer Market which will run in July and August.
‘We conceded 3-1 from turnovers’ – Curtin rues simple & silly Clare mistakes
*Joe O’Connor and Brian McNamara battle for possession. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. BASIC ERRORS were Clare’s undoing in their eleven point Munster final loss to Kerry, coach Eoin Curtin believed.
‘We gifted Kerry a fast start in the lion’s den’ – Sweeney reflects on third Munster final loss
*Alan Sweeney. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. DESPITE placing a focus on not allowing Kerry gain dominance early on in the Munster final, Clare did exactly that and it added to the disappointment of a third provincial final loss for wing-back Alan Sweeney.
O’Dea Clan Gathering ‘an economic booster’ for Co Clare
A TRIENNIAL family gathering crediting with giving “an economic boost” to Clare will receive a mayoral reception in Ennis.
Lisdoonvarna students make young environmentalists awards final
A TEAM of seven students from Mary Immaculate Secondary School in Lisdoonvarna will be competing in the finals of the ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards (YEA).
Kilfenora lives up to tradition with music festival
*Photograph: John Sheridan KILFENORA lived up to its tag as ‘the city of the crosses and the home of céilí music’.
Mix of disappointment & encouragement for Peter Keane following Clare’s Munster final loss to Kerry
*Clare senior football manager, Peter Keane. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE manager Peter Keane has said there is a mix of disappointment and encouragement following their eleven point Munster final loss to Kerry.
Kerry crush Clare’s dreams of Munster success to win provincial title number eighty six
*Keelan Sexton takes on Tony Brosnan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE have been comprehensively beaten by Kerry in the Munster senior football final.
Future fire service innovations to be explored at two-day conference
SALTHILL Hotel will host the Irish Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA) annual Conference and Fire Technology Exhibition at the Salthill Hotel on Wednesday and Thursday.