Contests for top positions on Clare GAA Executive
*Photograph: John Mangan With activity on the domestic playing fields drawing to a close, attention is switching to boardroom activities and, more specifically to the upcoming Clare GAA convention.
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Scattery Tours in thick of Kilrush Marina revival
Irene Hamilton has just finished a day of Zoom meetings, when speaking to The Clare Echo this week. What you might assume to be downtime for the Scattery Island Tours’ owner, is in fact a busy period of marketing the business to the international market for the year ahead, and preparing and licensing the vessels …
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A day of firsts in Minor football finals
A historic hat-trick was created on Saturday as the Minor Football Championships concluded in dramatic fashion around the county.
‘Political footballing with pyrite must end’ – Wynne
“POLITICAL FOOTBALLING” must end when it comes to the defective concrete block grant scheme, a Clare TD has said.
Changes to community schemes needed to help rural areas
RURAL communities are losing skilled people due to the criteria attached to different community employment (CE) schemes.
‘Not good enough for it to be closed’ – new application may bring life back to John Paul Estate community centre
*The closed community centre in John Paul Estate, Kilrush. TEN years on from initial calls to reopen the community centre in John Paul Estate, Kilrush, a new funding application has breathed new hope that the facility can be brought back to life.
Black Friday deals you’ll only find in Clare
GOOGLE searches for “Black Friday” in Ireland have soared, up 138 per cent on last year. As well as researching what to buy, Irish shoppers are also keen to shop local with searches for “near me” increasing by 50 per cent. It is a good omen for Irish business on a mission to turn Black …
The Daily Click: Kilrush
WELCOME to The Daily Click, where we put the spotlight on businesses in County Clare with an online shop. The Clare Echo is asking local people to get behind Clare businesses, and to think local before visiting international shopping websites. Today, we have a jam-packed room of online traders from Kilrush. Go ahead, give them …
‘Are you right there Michael’ – 2025 still the target for opening of West Clare Greenway
*Cllr Cillian Murphy, Cathaoirleach, West Clare Municipal District; Pat Dowling, Chief Executive, Clare County Council; Leonard Cleary, Director, West Clare Municipal District; Seán Lenihan, Senior Engineer, Clare County Council; Eoin O’Cathain, Roughan & O’Donovan Consulting Engineers; Carmel Kirby, Director of Physical Development, Clare County Council; and Cllr Joe Killeen, Leas Cathaoirleach, Clare County Council. Photograph: …
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Kilrush’s Danny on Irish Taekwondo team
KILRUSH’s Danny Gallagher is part of the Irish team competing in the Junior European Taekwan-Do IFT Championships. Training is currently undrway in La Nucia, Spain for the European championships with the past pupil of Kilrush Community School among the forty nine members of Team Ireland. Danny previously represented his country in the 2019 European Championships …