*Dermot Hayes. Photograph: John Mangan DERMOT Hayes (71) has been remembered for his three decades of activism after his passing on Saturday. Dermot Hayes passed away peacefully on January 3 surrounded by family at the Mater Hospital, Dublin, in the care of their ICU team. “For now, we will take a pause, to reflect, grieve, …
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Sharon Meaney, Manager of Clare Volunteer Centre; Gabriella Civico, CEV; Cllr Paul Murphy, Cathaoirleach of Clare County Council; Brendan Boyce, Integration Support Co-ordinator, Clare County Council, at the award ceremony in Barcelona. CO CLARE has been named the European Volunteering Capital 2027.
COMMUNITY information clinics will take place in Kilkee and Kilrush on Wednesday.
TWELVE of Clare’s community organisations have come together with the support of Clare County Council to help under-represented communities get registered to vote in advance of the local and European elections.
*Inch locals at Magowna Cross on Tuesday. Photograph: John Mangan JUNIOR MINISTER, Joe O’Brien (GP) has told Inch residents a pause on the addition of extra asylum seekers to Magowna House will be maintained if locals agree to enter a mediation process.
*John Kerin (Chairperson), Bernadette Haugh (Clare Local Community Development Committee Chief Officer), Sharon Meaney (Clare Volunteer Centre) and Leonard Cleary (Director of Rural Development). A new freephone number has been added to Clare’s Covid-19 Community Response team.
*Providing telephone sypport for the Clare Community Response Helpline is David Bennett and Helen Moloney of Clare County Council’s Rural Development Directorate. A dedicated community support helpline has been set up in Co Clare to assist members of the public during the current public health emergency.
Clare’s most vulnerable will be assisted following the creation of a new community response team.
On Friday, twelve men will dress up in clothing that for them is not the norm and incorporate new characters as part of a beauty contest with a difference, all in aid of Rape Crisis Midwest.