St Cronan’s run 1000km for Meals on Wheels
WHEN St Cronan’s Athletics Club saw that local Meals on Wheels services were dealing with a huge increase in demand, they stepped up to the mark. Literally.
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Ennis to Limerick rail line reopens on reduced schedule
*Trains returned to the Ennis rail line for the first time in two months. Photograph: John Mangan THE Ennis to Limerick rail line reopened on Tuesday after being closed for two months.
Mad Dog McGlinchey survivor of wild west shootout at Newmarket safehouse
A man who was involved in a wild west type shootout which saw over one hundred bullets fired at a Newmarket-on-Fergus safehouse was the quickest person to be extradited in the history of the State.
Meals on Wheels nourishing the most vulnerable as it records 300% increase in service demand
*Mairead Casey after dropping food to Mrs Casey on the Ballycar Rd. Photograph: John Mangan A Newmarket-on-Fergus based community group is ensuring the county’s most vulnerable residents are kept fed during the current COVID-19 pandemic and has seen its demand increase by over 300% at this time.
Gardaí seize €2000 cash and drugs at Newmarket-on-Fergus checkpoint
Gardaí obtained a sum of money and drugs during a checkpoint in Newmarket-on-Fergus on Saturday.
Cocaine valued at €30k located in Tiermaclane
Cocaine with a suspected value of €30,000 was seized from a house in Tiermaclane on Saturday.
Newmarket-on-Fergus chauffeur voluntarily drives Vicky Phelan to treatment in Dublin
*Pat Keogh. A Newmarket-on-Fergus businessman has been praised after voluntarily driving one of the country’s most highest profile cancer campaigners to and from Dublin.
Newmarket-on-Fergus ‘still as busy as ever’ despite being bypassed
Despite being bypassed, Newmarket-on-Fergus is unusually “as busy as ever” in the eyes of its local representative on Clare County Council.
St Caimin’s students write letters of hope to Carrigoran residents
Students at a Shannon secondary school have written to residents of Carrigoran House urging them to stay hopeful during the current COVID-19 pandemic. As with all nursing homes in the country, no visitors are allowed enter the Newmarket-on-Fergus nursing home in an attempt to limit the spread of Coronavirus among the nation’s most vulnerable. Residents …
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VOTE: Clare’s Greatest Senior Hurling Half Forward Line 1990-2020
Focus switches to attack as voting opens for the half-forward line on The Clare Echo’s Greatest Senior Hurling Team (1990 – 2020) poll.