Dan McCabe brings intimacy to glór debut
CLARE ballad lovers kicked off their Valentine’s weekend as Kildare-based ballad singer Dan McCabe took to the stage at glór for his first concert at the Ennis venue.
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‘It didn’t seem real’ – Clare students react to threat of attack
*Photograph: Joe Buckley CLARE STUDENTS experienced shock, fear and for some a sense of happiness over the course of a dramatic few hours on Tuesday morning.
Dr Máire Finn & Blackie O’Connell chosen as Ennis St Patrick’s Day grand marshals
ENNIS GP and women’s health advocate Dr Máire Finn and uilleann piper Blackie O’Connell have been unveiled as the grand marshals for the 2025 St Patrick’s Day parade in Ennis.
Councillors claim they are not getting adequate information on Ennis 2040
*Abbey St car park is among the most contentious items of the Ennis 2040 strategy. ELECTED MEMBERS of Clare County Council have said there is a vacuum of information when it comes to Ennis 2040 while attempts by a Fine Gael councillor to block debate on the subject was overruled by Fianna Fáil councillors.
Miscommunication over threatened Clare schools attack left children ‘in bits’ admit parents
*Trudy Leyden with Michael McNamara. CLARE PARENTS say children were left “in bits” over the emotional stress caused by the threat issued to schools in the county on Tuesday.
Gardaí confirm ‘no ongoing risk to public’ & assure bomb threat to Clare schools was ‘not credible’
*St Caimin’s Community School in Shannon closed on Tuesday morning. Photograph: Joe Buckley AN GARDA SÍOCHÁNA have confirmed that the security threat which resulted in the closures of schools in Shannon, Sixmilebridge and Ennis on Tuesday morning “is not credible”.
Schools in Clare close after bomb threat issued
SCHOOLS ACROSS Clare have closed until lunch time on Tuesday after an apparent bomb threat was made.
Clare students win Fergal Quinn award
Kaitlyn Ferns, recipient of the Fergal Quinn Award with Michele O’ Keeffe of the Community Training Centre at Clare Youth Centre. TWO Clare students have been presented the Fearghal Quinn award in recognition of their results in last year’s Leaving Cert Applied.
Gardaí arrest two juveniles following erratic driving in balaclavas
TWO ARRESTS were made after the theft of a car in Limerick City by juveniles who were later spotted driving erratically and wearing balaclavas in Ennis.
Gardaí swoop on man home in Clare for family funeral and charge him for indecent assault of sister 40 years ago
GARDAÍ swooped on a 55 year old man while home in Ireland for a family funeral and charged him with the indecent assault of a sister 40 years ago, a court heard.