Passenger numbers up 7% to 1.04m for first half of 2025 at Shannon Airport
PASSENGER numbers for the first six months of 2025 at Shannon Airport are above 1.04m which is an increase of seven percent for the same period last year.
Shannon Airport install new security fencing following recent breaches
*Shannon Airport’s new fencing. Photograph: Joe Buckley SHANNON AIRPORT has ramped up security measures following recent breaches of its perimeter fencing by protesters.
‘There’s no way we’re not going to go again’ – O’Donnell says no decisions made but exits from Clare camp unlikely
*Shane O’Donnell in action for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. TWO-TIME All-Ireland winner Shane O’Donnell has said retirements from the Clare camp are unlikely given the manner in which the county’s defence of the All-Ireland title panned out.
Trial pedestrianisation period announced for Killaloe to Ballina Bridge
PEDESTRIANISATION is to be trialled from the end of July to the middle of October on the old bridge linking Killaloe and Ballina.
Council u-turn over systems crash sees public consultation extended for Ennis transport plan
A TWO WEEK extension for the public consultation period for the contentious draft Ennis Local Transport Plan has been confirmed by Clare County Council.
First Pan Am branded jet departs Shannon Airport in over three decades
*Photograph: Arthur Ellis SHANNON AIRPORT marked a special moment linked to its aviation past with a Pan Am branded jet departing its runways for the first time in over thirty years.
€210k worth of cocaine seized in Tuamgraney
€210,000 worth of cocaine was obtained by An Garda Síochána following a search operation in Tuamgraney on Saturday.
Monaghan make their mark & send Clare out of ladies football championship
*Roisin Considine in action for Clare. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography CLARE have been knocked out of the TG4 All-Ireland intermediate ladies football championship with a six point defeat to Monaghan seeing them exit at the quarter-final stage for a successive year.
Three social workers assigned to 43 children in care in Clare
TUSLA are to double the number of social workers in Clare this summer but service gaps are leading to children from the county being sent for placement in Donegal and Cork.
Déise deserving winners over Clare in All-Ireland minor final
*Liam Murphy takes on Gearoid O’Shea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s minor hurlers came undone in their bid for All-Ireland glory against a superior Waterford side.