Top trainer award for Murray
Presentation to Stephen Murray Top Trainer for 2024 also pictured are Hughie Kelleher and Cian Mulrooney of W G B O A. SIXMILEBRIDGE’S Stephen Murray received a top trainer of the year award in Galway last weekend.
Ennis
Ghana native jailed for rape of teenager pleads guilty to three money laundering offences
*A date for sentencing hearing will be set next month. A 28-year old Ennis man convicted last July of the rape of a teenage girl he had befriended online, has pleaded guilty to three money laundering offences.
Bronze bust of O’Regan unveiled at Old Ground Hotel
John Maher (far left) and Mary Gleeson of The Old Ground Hotel with Vincent Delaney and Tim Crowe of the Sixmilebridge Historical Society. A BRONZE bust in memory of Brendan O’Regan has been unveiled at The Old Ground Hotel.
Ennis man pleads guilty to threatening ‘light up’ hitch hiker
*The threat was made in August. A 30-year old Ennis man has pleaded guilty to threatening a hitch-hiker that he would set him alight after pulling out a plastic bottle full of petrol if he did not pay money for his lift.
Four members of Ennis Doherty family plead guilty to charges arising from major Clare Garda investigation
*Photograph: John Mangan FOUR members of an Ennis family have pleaded guilty to various offences arising from a major investigation by Clare Gardaí.
Illegal encampment takes over Council car park
*The encampment in Drumbiggle. AN ILLEGAL ENCAMPMENT has rocked up in Clare County Council’s own back garden with one TD criticising the actions as an attempt to leap-frog ahead in a bid to secure local authority housing.
Leaving Cert student pleads guilty to assaulting man at protest against rumoured new accommodation for asylum seekers in Corofin
*A protest held in Scool, Corofin. Photograph: John Mangan A 19-year old Leaving Cert student has pleaded guilty to the assault causing harm of a man in his sixties at a protest against a rumoured new accommodation centre for asylum seekers in Co Clare last year.
HSE given deadline over planned €25m hospitals for lands at St Flannan’s College
*Teachers at St Flannan’s College where the site is earmarked for. AN BORD PLEANÁLA has given the HSE a deadline of later this month to confirm that there is Uisce Éireann capacity to accommodate its contentious plan for a €25m community hospital on diocesan-owned green space at St Flannan’s college.
‘One of Ireland’s greatest vets’ – the legacy of generous gentleman PJ O’Driscoll will live on
*The late PJ O’Driscoll at his veterinary practice in Summerhill, Ennis. PJ O’DRISCOLL has been remembered as one of the “greatest veterinary surgeons in Ireland”.
Two members of Ennis family plead not guilty to contributing to activities of criminal organisation
*Members of An Garda Síochána and the Armed Support Unit carrying out a raid in Ballymaley in June 2023. TWO MEMBERS of an Ennis family today (Tuesday) denied participating or contributing to the activities of a criminal organisation.