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.
*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.
*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.
*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 ACROSS Clare have closed until lunch time on Tuesday after an apparent bomb threat was made.
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.
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 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.
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.
*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.