Ennis Book Club Festival wins Best Community Group as Clare Business Excellence Awards finalists announced
With judging complete for this year’s Clare Business Excellence Awards, today (October 19, 2023) we announce our finalists.
With judging complete for this year’s Clare Business Excellence Awards, today (October 19, 2023) we announce our finalists.
LAHINCH Coast Hotel is one of North Clare’s most popular destinations with families and golfers. Since the O’Meara family took over as co-owners in late 2018, the 147-bedroom hotel and leisure centre is showing its true colours as a family-run establishment.
*Brid O’Meara. Photograph: Martin Connolly Inflationary pressure is threatening the feasibility of SMEs throughout the country as energy prices continue to climb, leaving Clare businesses in great uncertainty.
To coincide with International Women’s Day, The Clare Echo spoke with some of Clare’s top female entrepreneurs. We learn about the biggest challenges they have faced in business as well as their favourite moments of being a business owner. In Part Two, we spoke with Ailish Connolly and Liz Greehy of Kilbaha Gallery, Caitríona Considine …
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Even a global pandemic couldn’t deter the positive effect of Lahinch hosting The Irish Open twelve months ago with two hoteliers from the coastal spot looking at the bright side having reopened their doors last Monday.
*Lahinch. Photograph: Martin Connolly For a new business, having your location broadcast across the world months after re-opening plus welcoming 100,000 visitors to the area is the stuff of dreams, for Brid and John O’Meara of Lahinch Coast Hotel it was the reality.
*Photos copyright Martin Connolly / The Clare Echo THE newly-refurbished Lahinch Coast Hotel has opened its doors under new management. The Clare Echo took a look inside the beautiful 144-room establishment, which has undergone major changes since co-owners and joint managers John and Bríd O’Meara took the reins. Bríd and John O’Meara, previously of the …