*Cian Hughes. A short film shot in Ennis and Shannon last year is being screened to audiences across the United States of America this week with early reviews of the performance of a Clare actor in his first role described as highly positive.
An Ennis hairdresser has revealed that desperate customers are turning up at his home address looking for haircuts – but insists he has been forced to turn them all away while Covid-19 lockdown measures are in place.
*Caroline Dunlea. Photograph: Brian Arthur As retail businesses continue to adapt, they are being urged to apply for Enterprise Ireland’s Covid-19 Online Retail Scheme, ahead of its closing date on Wednesday 27th May.
*Violet-Anne Wynne. Photograph: John Mangan Clare TD, Violet-Anne Wynne will make her inaugural Dáil speech on Wednesday (tomorrow).
EIGHT youth projects from Clare have reached the final of this year’s Young Environmentalist Awards.
*Action from the 2020 South of Ireland Golf Championship in Lahinch. Photograph: Brian Arthur Golf clubs have been advised to prepare for a surge in activity as the sport becomes one of the first to resume on May 18th.
THE unique development of Shannon town in the 1960s will feature in the hugely popular Building Ireland series next week.
*Photograph: Eamon Ward Elected representatives in Clare have said the standing orders in place for meetings of Clare County Council are a form of “self-gagging”.
*Cllr PJ Kelly, Cllr Pat McMahon & Cllr PJ Ryan in UL. Photograph: Alan Place Planning rules and regulations have resulted in rural Clare being “sentenced to death” according to one of the most experienced elected representatives on the County Council.
*Michael Enright (left) with Fianna Fáil party leader Micheál Martin. Chairman of Fianna Fáil’s Clare Comhairle Dáil Cheantair, Michael Enright has labelled it “shameful and disgraceful” that party members of the country may be deprived of a say on a historic coalition with Fine Gael.
