Clare duo Butler & Coughlan sign senior contracts with Munster rugby
Tony Butler in action against the Dragons. Photograph: ©INPHO/Ben Brady CLARE DUO Tony Butler and Ethan Coughlan have signed senior contracts with Munster Rugby and the IRFU.
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Ennis armadillos & bollards causing more accidents rather than preventing them claim residents & business owner
*Local resident and former councillor, Tommy Brennan shows a worn-out bollard by St Flannan’s Drive in Ennis. RESIDENTS and business owners in Ennis have voiced their frustrations at the difficulties that armadillos and bollards continue to pose in their daily lives.
Clare’s Missionvale group returns to Port Elizabeth for first time since Sr Ethel Normoyle’s death
SECONDARY school students and their teachers have embarked from Shannon Airport for a for a week-long volunteering effort with the Missionvale Ireland Charity.
‘Incompetent driving & licences for life’ lambasted by Murphy in defence of Ennis cycling lanes
*Cllr Paul Murphy. Photograph: Eamon Ward. A CLARECASTLE representative has said incompetent driving from older motorists and not armadillos is causing problems in Clonroadmore.
St Flannan’s College on course to become Munster’s largest school
Fr Ignatius McCormack outside St Flannan’s College. Photograph: Eamon Ward ST FLANNAN’S COLLGE in Ennis is on course to become Munster’s largest school this September when its student population increases from 1,201 to 1,280.
St. Flannan’s victorious in first rugby outing
*The St. Flannan’s side kitted in the Ennis R.F.C jerseys. St. Flannan’s 40-5 Salesian Secondary College, Pallaskenry (@ Ennis R.F.C Grounds) St. Flannan’s senior rugby campaign is off to a winning start, with a 40-5 triumph over Salesian Secondary College, Pallaskenry in the Boys Schools Bowen B Shield Quarter-Final.
Confidence expressed that Ennis is ‘well protected from flooding’ in wake of Midleton devastation
*Floods at St Flannan’s College in 2009. FLOODING EVENTS which occurred in Midleton last month are “unlikely to occur” in Clare’s county town.
An Bord Pleanála turns down oral hearing requests by St Flannan’s teachers and Board of Management
*St Flannan’s College. AN BORD Pleanála has rejected a request by teachers and staff and the Board of Management at St Flannan’s College in Ennis for an oral hearing to be held into contentious plans for a €25m HSE community hospital to be built on Church-owned green space at the college.
Paris’ ban on rental e-scooters won’t damage Ballyea’s native ‘Badass’ business
*Mark Daly leading a tour to The Louvre. PARIS became the first European capital to ban rented electric scooters but Ballyea native Mark Daly who runs ‘Badass Tours Paris’ which provides a 12km E-Scooter tour around the city is confident it will not negatively impact his business.
Clare schools discover opponents for Harty Cup & Corn Uí Mhuirí
*James Hegarty will be among the young Clare hurlers competing in the Harty Cup. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE SCHOOLS competing in the Dr Harty Cup and Corn Uí Mhuirí have discovered their opponents for the 2023/24 campaign.