ON THE first anniversary of her death, Edna O’Brien will be remembered during Scariff Harbour Festival. Blue Road, a film documentary on her life and completed shortly before her death, will be screened twice in her home place over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
*Miltown Malbay. Photograph: Arthur Ellis PARTS of West Clare are without a supply of water following two bursts along the one water main.
*Padraig Kelly in action for St Breckans. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography STARTING guns have signalled in the race for the Jack Daly, there were no massive surprises among the early fallers and no fatal blows have been sustained following the first round of action.
*Bobby Kerr pictured at O’Brien’s Tower with Leonard Cleary, former Director of Rural Development, Clare County Council; and Geraldine Enright, Director of the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience. Photograph by Eamon Ward. BOBBY KERR has stepped down as Chairperson of the Board of the Cliffs of Moher DAC.
*Photograph: John Mangan A MOTION calling for the creation of a League of Ireland team in Clare has been passed by Clare County Council.
LAHINCH’s bathing prohibition and the advisory notice not to swim at White Strand, Miltown Malbay have been lifted.
*Sarah Treacy. WHITEGATE teenager Sarah Treacy has joined the Youth Board of educational charitable trust, Airfield Estate.
UISCE ÉIREANN have been labelled as “a law onto themselves” with the ongoing failure to provide safe drinking water in West Clare slammed by elected representatives.
AN ADVISORY not to swim in White Strand Doonbeg has been lifted.
*Seanie Malone and Shane Hickey square off. Photograph: James Downes KILMURRY IBRICKANE took the spoils in the West Clare derby against St Joseph’s Miltown to begin their Clare SFC campaign with a win.