*Photograph: Brian Arthur SANTA CLAUS and members of the All-Ireland winning Clare hurling team will be joined over 350 elves, Christmas characters and musicians in Bunratty village this Thursday night at 6.00pm for Ireland’s largest Christmas parade.
*The Shannon Shamrock. FOURTEEN years after the Shannon Shamrock in Bunratty closed its doors, the site is still sitting empty, with no clear plan for future development.
*The elves await the arrival of Santa Claus at Bunratty Castle & Folk Park on 28th November. Photograph: Brian Arthur. BUNRATTY will be home to Ireland’s largest Christmas parade and it will be transformed into a winter wonderland on Thursday November 28th.
Monsters, Misfits and Mayhem’ will descend on Bunratty Castle & Folk Park from Saturday October 26th to Monday October 28th MONSTERS, Misfits and Mayhem’ will descend on Bunratty Castle & Folk Park this October Bank Holiday Weekend (October 26th-28th) as the Clare visitor attraction is transformed into a haunted Halloween village.
*Senior investigating officer, Insp David Finnerty. Photograph: Joe Buckley OVER 100 witnesses who attended a party in Bunratty forty years ago on the night that Patrick Nugent died are to be interviewed as part of a fresh investigation into the death of the Sixmilebridge man.
A jaunting car takes visitors on a trip through Bunratty Castle and Folk Park. Photo Paul Corey MORE than 300,000 television viewers across Australia will be introduced to Bunratty Castle & Folk Park this autumn.
*Deric Hartigan of Ireland AM (pictured centre) with Irish Wolfhounds Rian and Mide at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park. TELEVISION weatherman Deric Hartigan made a welcome return to his former stomping ground of Bunratty Castle on Thursday last.
Fossetts Circus is making a welcome return to Bunratty Castle and Folk Park this weekend. Photograph: Brian Arthur. BUNRATTY is going to see the circus roll into town this weekend. Castle and Folk Park in Co Clare will host ‘The Big Top’ of Ireland’s national circus this weekend.
*The late Patrick Nugent. APPROACHING THE fortieth anniversary of Patrick Nugent’s death, his brothers are hopeful that a new national appeal may prompt persons with information to come forward so that they can put the tragedy behind them “once and for all”.
Kerry farmer Mick Teahan with a Kerry Bog Pony and foal in the Kerry Bog Village. Photo Joe Keogh A NEW INITIATIVE has been launched at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park to preserve and promote awareness of one of Ireland’s rarest breeds of pony.