*An aerial shot of Cappa. Photograph: Airswing Media. CAPPA has regained its Blue Flag status which it lost in 2023, it is one of nine Clare beaches to receive the coveted award for 2025.
*Williamstown Harbour. WILLIAMSTOWN HARBOUR in Whitegate is to be revitalised after conditional planning permission was granted for the development of a major tourism and commercial facility.
*An artist’s impression of the Fáilte Ireland Ballycuggaran Sports Activity Facility at Ballycuggaran in County Clare. CONTRACTS have been signed for the construction of the €1.2 million Ballycuggaran Water Sports Facility on the shores of Lough Derg in Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands.
WORKS to link Tuamgraney with an existing 12km walking trail from Killaloe to Ogonnelloe are to commence next year
*The late Wassiou Ayawe Moran. A 19-year old promising soccer player drowned in a jet ski accident after giving his life jacket to a teenage female passenger before she got on the jet-ski.
*One of the assaults took place on Holy Island. AN 80-year old man has pleaded guilty to the indecent assault of five boys over a six year period at locations in Clare and Limerick.
KILLALOE will come under a national spotlight from this Sunday as the setting for a new RTÉ drama.
A SWIMMING BAN has been introduced in Mountshannon.
PRESENCE OF ALGAL bloom has prompted the introduction of a do not swim notice at the Ballycuggeran bathing area on Lough Derg.
Stories of emigrant settlements in the USA, stories of life in a conflicted Northern Ireland, the Aughty Rainforest in the time Brian Boru, are topics of talks to be given during Scariff Harbour Festival over the upcoming Bank Holiday weekend.
