UL holds Ireland’s largest major incident drill
*Photograph: Brian Arthur UNIVERSITY of Limerick staged a major incident exercise involving students from paramedics, medicine and nursing, alongside personnel from the emergency services.
Shannon Industrial Estate unit won’t be used for asylum seekers
*Photograph: Joe Buckley OFFICIALS in the Department of Integration have scrapped plans to use a unit in the Shannon Industrial Estate for housing asylum seekers.
Revisions to Abbey St car park plans already causing a stir before public consultation
*Photograph: Páraic McMahon PLANS FOR the controversial Abbey Street car park development as part of the Ennis 2040 Strategy are to go on public consultation next week and are already causing a stir.
Clare footballers without 12 of last year’s panel for 2024 campaign
*Ciaran Russell is among the players not available for Clare boss Mark Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill MARK FITZGERALD’s first Allianz National Football League campaign as Clare manager begins in earnest this Sunday when they welcome Sligo to Cusack Park.
Three diversions from Cork to Shannon Airport during Storm Jocelyn
THREE COMMERCIAL flights diverted to Shannon Airport from Cork today (Tuesday), prompted by Storm Jocelyn.
Scariff library to be named after Edna O’Brien
SCARIFF LIBRARY is to be named after legendary novelist and Tuamgraney’s finest playwright Edna O’Brien. Born in December 1930 to farmer Michael O’Brien and Lena Cleary in Drewsborough, Tuamgraney, Edna has gone on to become one of the country’s greatest writers of all-time and among the biggest literary giants across generations. In 1960, her first novel, …
Vicky Phelan portrait tour planned for Ennis
A VICKY PHELAN portrait tour reaches Ennis at the end of January.
Crowe pulls out of election race
*Cyril Crowe. Photograph: Joe Buckley FINE GAEL’s plans to gain a third seat in East Clare for the 2024 local elections have been dealt a major setback following the decision of Cyril Crowe to withdraw.
‘We’ve people coming from Kildare to use Shannon Airport which tells its own story’
*Photograph: Joe Buckley AN INCREASING amount of passengers from the hinterland of Dublin Airport opting to fly from Shannon Airport “tells its own story” on the successful recovery of Shannon from the international pandemic.
Kilmihil’s Keane appointed Director of Irish Whiskey Association
KILMIHIL’s Eoin Keane has been appointed as the Director of the Irish Whiskey Association.
