*Ciara Jones at her home in Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Natasha Barton A CLARE MOTHER of two found out she was pregnant with her third child on the same day she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Shay O’Neill, Noel Hogan, Edel O’Grady, Eavan Brennan, & Michael Kelly SCARIFF HOSTS the 74th Clare Drama Festival with the curtains to be raised this Friday (March 24th) in the Community College Hall.
SCARIFF COMMUNITY COLLEGE’S bid to be crowned Munster U15 soccer champions came undone at the hands of an impressive Coláiste Muire Réalt na Mara Crosshaven.
*Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (FG). Photograph: Brian Arthur AN INTERVENTION FROM THE Taoiseach into “an ongoing impasse” at a section of an identified route for the Lough Derg Greenway project has been sought.
NORTH CLARE is “only at the beginning” of its attempts to make the area enriched by sustainable communities while 525 cars in Doolin and Lisdoonvarna will have to go electric over the next decade to half private vehicle emissions.
*Eamonn Foudy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill EAMONN FOUDY’s injury is not as bad as first feared but it will rule him out of the running for Clare’s opening contest in the Munster senior hurling championship.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CRUNCH MEETINGS are being held by Council and Department officials on the proposed transfer of Shannon Heritage’s Clare assets.
*Saoirse Exton. Photograph: John Mangan O’BRIENSBRIDGE TEENAGER, Saoirse Exton has been appointed by the UN Secretary-General to a special advisory group on climate change.
SIXMILEBRIDGE FOLK CLUB will gather for their second concert of its 2023 series this weekend.
*Dean Ryan kicking a point for Clare. Photograph: Martin Connolly ÉIRE ÓG’s bid to win three Clare SFC titles in a row has been strengthened by the return of Dean Ryan to the club.
