VIDEO: ‘Lunacy’ at Kilkee as youngsters jump from 80ft cliff-edge
Parents and guardians are being urged to take cognisance of their children’s activity in Kilkee after youngsters were filmed jumping off a cliff edge believed to be eighty feet high.
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Final week of Azerbaijan artist’s Kilkee exhibition
*The Breaching Whale by Adil Vezir. Azerbaijan visual artist Adil Vezir is in the final week of his exhibition at Kilkee this week.
West Clare businesses & community groups collaborating to drive investment
*Photograph: Martin Connolly Businesses and community groups across West Clare are prepared to engage fully with a proposed new taskforce aimed at bringing new investment to the county according to Fianna Fáil General Election candidate, Rita McInerney.
Irish Open to bring €5m benefit to Lahinch
*Photograph: Martin Connolly ‘Golf is the second language of Lahinch’ and this relationship is set to leave it’s biggest benefit yet with an estimated €5m to be spent there during the course of The Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.
Clare groups to make history & heritage more accessible online
*Pictured in Moycullen at a joint meeting of the ICAN project community participants, left to right, Eric Shaw, Clarecastle Community Development Group; Congella McGuire, Heritage Officer, Clare County Council; John O’Brien, Shannon Historical Society; Olive Carey, Dúchas na Sionna A number of Clare heritage groups are partnering with the National Museum of Ireland and Clare …
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Mixed views on merger of Ennistymon & Kilrush electoral areas
Mixed views have been expressed regarding a possible imbalance in the make-up of the Municipal Districts in Clare.
Taoiseach ‘deeply hindered’ Fine Gael’s Clare candidates – Taylor
*Mike Taylor. Photograph: Martin Connolly Comments from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar along with suggestions of co-living by Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy “deeply hindered” the prospects of Fine Gael candidates in Clare for the local elections according to one runner who felt his own liberal views decreased his West Clare vote.
‘I’m young enough to have energy & old enough to have experience’ – Murphy
When he decided to join Fianna Fáil to contest the local elections, Cillian Murphy said “it was time”, after an unsuccessful attempt in 2004 his time has come to represent the people of West Clare on the County Council.
Farming, fishing & tourism key to combating rural depopulation – Murphy
*Cillian Murphy. Photograph: Valerie O’Sullivan Fifteen years on from last seeking a seat on Clare County Council, Cillian Murphy feels “it’s time” to try bring pro community and West Clare ideas to the local authority.
Lack of housing not people the biggest problem in Kilkee
Kilkee’s biggest threat is not the lack of people in the area for the vast majority of the year but rather the absence of “permanent and appropriate housing”.