*Kevin Toomey welcoming then Minister for Education to St John’s NS in Shannon in May 2023. Photograph: Joe Buckley BUNRATTY native Kevin Toomey has been appointed to a new role with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA).
*Chairperson of Friends of Ennis Hospital, Angela Coll. Photograph: Tom Micks. AN ANNOUNCEMENT is to be made before St Patrick’s Day on whether the Mid-West’s new hospital will be located in Clare, Limerick or Tipperary.
*Quinn Hughes at Bunratty Castle & Folk Park. Photograph: Ruth Griffin VISITORS have been travelling from near and wide to sample the Christmas Experience at Bunratty Castle & Folk Park.
*Jim Hickey (centre) proposed the motion for Cratloe. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CRATLOE GAA club were accused of delaying a long-running issue with Parteen/Meelick with their attempts to let a player living in another parish line out with the club of their parent.
Members of the Shannon’s Men Shed after receiving their Christmas dinners. Photograph: Joe Buckley ALMOST 600 Christmas dinners will be delivered by Shannon Gardaí to senior citizens in the locality this week.
*The M18. 25 road collisions have occurred on the M18 and N18 over the past two months.
BUNRATTY residents say housing should not be built on the old Shannon Shamrock Hotel site to protect the integrity of the area as a tourism location in a fresh appeal.
*Photograph: Ruth Griffin BUNRATTY CASTLE and Folk Park was taken over by monsters, misfits and mayhem as it was transformed into a Halloween village for the October Bank Holiday weekend.
*The site of the Shannon Shamrock Hotel. PLANNING PERMISSION has been granted for the development of 58 houses at the site of the former Shannon Shamrock Hotel in Bunratty.
BUNRATTY CASTLE will host a sheaf throwing competition as part of its long running Traditional Harvest Day event.