Council on track to deliver 232 houses in Clare in 2026
CLARE County Council is on course to deliver 232 social and affordable homes this year, with the support of local developers and in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies.
Lisdoonvarna
Clare students win science awards
*Koen Verbruggen, Director of Geological Survey Ireland, presents the Geological Survey Ireland Award to Béibhinn O’Loughlin from Mary Immaculate Secondary School in Lisdoonvarna. Photograph: Fennell Photography TWO Clare students have received awards for their science projects revolving around geological and water analyses. At The Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2026 Awards last week, Mary …
46k passengers used Burren/Cliffs Explorer in pilot season
46,742 passengers used the Burren/Cliffs Explorer in its pilot season over the summer.
Case for Quilty to become leading overnight camping home in Clare put forward
*Quilty. Photograph: Ann O’Connell. QUILTY’s has been labelled as an “ideal location” for the potential development of overnight camping facilities while attempts for such a proposal led to a “pile on” in Lisdoonvarna.
Lisdoonvarna’s healing waters underline need to improve Sulphur Bridge
*Lisdoonvarna. HEALING waters of Lisdoonvarna “is actually damaging to the roads,” the area’s local councillor quipped this week.
Ukrainian war veteran walks free over stabbing in Lisdoonvarna Direct Provision centre
*Burren Hostel. A 62-year old Ukrainian war veteran, who has four sons fighting in the war against the Russians, has escaped jail after stabbing a man in the buttocks at a direct provision centre in North Clare.
TÚS maith leath na hoibre – Donnellan graduates with first-class honours
*Paddy Donnellan. Photograph: Brian Arthur BROADFORD’s Paddy Donnellan has graduated with a first-class honours degree in Process and Engineering Management from the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS).
Pilot Burren/Cliffs Explorer review ongoing with addition of Ennistymon stop ‘a no brainer’
*Photograph: Eamon Ward. REVIEWS on the pilot season of the Burren and Cliffs Explorer must realise that the inclusion of an Ennistymon spur for 2026 is “a no brainer,” one county councillor has stressed while another has said there was a “positive pile-on” for the shuttle service.
Lisdoonvarna widow laments absence of restorative justice in dangerous driving case
*Helga Himmelsbach. Photograph: John Mangan A Clare widow has told an inquest that the absence of restorative justice in the case where her late husband died as a result of a French tourist’s dangerous driving “is a lost opportunity” for all concerned.
‘Regulation gone mad’ – no urgency to solve removal of North & West Clare schools from hot meals scheme
*Photograph: John Mangan RURAL SCHOOLS in North and West Clare were specifically hit with their removal from the State’s Hot School Meals scheme “because of logistics and costs,” elected representatives have claimed.