Clare radio personnel shortlisted in IMRO Awards
Nominations were announced for the 2019 IMRO Awards on Tuesday with several Clare connections among those shortlisted.
Jim Warny
Jim Warny documentary wins Gold for Clare FM at New York Festivals Radio Awards
*Padraic Flaherty & Gavin Grace. Clare FM has won Gold at the prestigious New York Festivals Radio Awards for a documentary on Jim Warny.
Clare’s bravest young heroes recognised
*L-R Rose Hynes, Chairman Shannon Group, Razan Abdel Wahed, who arrived in Ireland as a Syrian refugee in 2017 and now lives in Ennistymon, her mum Zahra and Supt Brendan McDonagh. Pic Arthur Ellis. Clare’s bravest and most outstanding young, unsung heroes were honoured in Ennis this week.
Jim Warny to play himself in movie about Thai Cave rescue
CAVE diver Jim Warny and Shannon Airport are to feature in a film retelling the story that gripped the world’s attention earlier this year, when 12 young boys and their football coach were trapped in a cave in Thailand following heavy flooding. Ennis based cave diver Jim Warny, one of an elite multi-national group of …
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Taoiseach wants to honour cave rescue hero Jim Warny
Photo by Arthur Ellis Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s office are looking at a way to honour Clare hero Jim Warny. The Clare Echo were the first to report on the Ennis-based Belgian native’s involvement in the rescuing of twelve members of a young Thailand football team and their twenty five year old coach in July of …
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SFAI recognise heroics of Jim Warny
Heroic cave diver Jim Warny has been recognised by the Schoolboys Football Association of Ireland (SFAI) for his role in helping to recover twelve Thai young footballers and their coach from the Tham Luang caves earlier this month. A resident of Ennis for the past fifteen years, Jim has been prominent member of the cave-diving …
Hero’s welcome for Warny as he returns to Clare soil
Jim Warny received the welcome home he deserved at Shannon Airport with over one hundred people gathering to mark his return. Once the Belgian national walked through the arrivals hall at Shannon Airport, cheers and rounds of applause erupted. Jim was accompanied by his father Rene and fiancé Asia Mania. As first reported by The …
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