*President Catherine Connolly working with Instructor Cian Corcoran assembling a cabinate during her visit to Common Knowledge, the award winning Social Enterprise in Co Clare on Friday. Photograph by Eamon Ward PRESIDENT Catherine Connolly made her first visit to Co Clare since her successful election.
*President Catherine Connolly with her husband Brian McEnery alongside past Presidents Mary McAleese, Michael D. Higgins, Mary Robinson and their respective spouses Martin, Sabina and Nicholas. ENNIS native Brian McEnery has taken up new residence at Áras an Uachtaráin alongside his wife, Catherine Connolly (IND) on Tuesday was inaugurated as the tenth President of Ireland.
A CLARE councillor was among those to receive a vote in the Presidential election.
*Catherine Connolly. PRESIDENT ELECT Catherine Connolly (IND) claimed the biggest share of the vote in Clare by a considerable distance with over sixty percent of the vote.
CATHERINE CONNOLLY (IND) is on course to be elected as the tenth President of Ireland with Co Clare giving its majority vote to the Galway woman.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley LOW TURNOUTS have been recorded in polling booths across Clare for the Presidential election.
*Catherine Connolly with environmental groups in Spanish Point. ONE WEEK out from the Presidential election, front-runner Catherine Connolly (IND) refused to take questions from the media of the Mid-West during her only visit of the campaign to Co Clare and Co Limerick.
There has been a significant increase in number of aircraft transporting US military personnel through Shannon Airport en route to NATO countries in Eastern Europe this week.
*Photograph: John Mangan Amid the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan, there have been renewed calls to end Shannon Airport’s use by US troops.
*Shane Ross with Rose Hynes & Mary Considine during his November visit to Shannon Airport. Photograph: Arthur Ellis Workers in Shannon Airport and the Mid-West “are petrified” over the Airport’s future post COVID-19.