MORE than €6m has been spent on accommodating Ukrainian refugees in County Clare alone in recent months. According to new details released by the Government, seven Co Clare accommodation providers signed Government contracts with a cumulative estimated value of €6.36m to accommodate Ukrainian refugees in the second quarter of this year.
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Clare has one of the highest populations of Ukrainians per capita in the country. A spokesman for the Dept cautioned: “The values associated with the contracts in the EU Notice are estimates of total values and should not be taken as the amounts that have or will be paid out.”
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The largest contract was awarded to Lisdoonvarna based firm, The Hydro Hotel Ltd which operates the Hydro Hotel (€1.53m), followed by The Auburn Lodge Hotel which entered a contract of €1.523m and Kilkee Town Ltd operating the Kilkee Bay Hotel (€1.52m).
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ANEW lease of life has been forecast for Lisdoonvarna, writes Páraic McMahon An allocation of €100,000 has been made for the North Clare town under the Streetscape Enhance ment Initiative for local retailers and prop erty owners to improve the facades of their buildings, carry out artwork or install fea tures such as street furniture or canopies.
Clare TD, Joe Carey (FG) urged property owners to apply to Clare County Council to avail of the funding. “Clare County Coun cil will manage the initiative and will begin advertising for applications in the coming weeks and I would encourage all local busi nesses, property owners and retailers to ap ply for funding”. Cllr Joe Garrihy (FG) said the allocation represented “welcome news” for the area.
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TWO Bunratty outlets have been recognised as the top of their trade, writes Páraic McMahonDurtyNelly’s in Bunratty has been named as one of the bars of the year in Ire land while JP Clarke’s has been lauded for its offering. At the Bar of the Year awards held in the Clayton Hotel last week, Durty Nel lys took gold in the tourist bar of the year category and such brought a new piece of silver back to the man tlepiece of the landmark Bunratty pub. JP Clarke’s also situated in Bunratty was named Gas tro Bar of the Year holding off the challenge of Hamlets Street Food & Gastro Gar den in Cork and Oasis Bar & Restaurant in Donegal. Both Durty Nelly’s and JP Clarke’s have proven to be hugely popular spots with locals and visitors alike. They are often one of the first stopping points for tourists who have landed at Shannon Airport.
Types of projects that could be support ed include the restoration of traditional shopfronts, provision of street planting, in stallation of canopies as well as murals and publicLisdoonvarnaartwork. is one of 26 towns and vil lages that will benefit from the €2.6m fund announced by Rural and Community De velopment Minister Heather Humphreys (FG).
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The EU notice states that aris ing out of the unfolding humani tarian crisis and displacement of Ukrainians as a result of the on going war in Ukraine since Feb ruary 24th 2022 and the numbers of Ukrainian refugees arriving in to Ireland, the Dept has entered into a number of arrangements to provide accommodation for these beneficiaries in the short to medi umTheterm.note states that given the large number of refugees seeking accommodation and the urgency involved, the Dept “was not in a position to procure the necessary contract(s) by advertising openly”.
The note states that rather, the Dept has formed the view that in view of such urgency of the situa tion, it was open to the Dept to ne gotiate directly without prior pub lication to put in place a number of short service contracts.
The Dept entered contracts with two Ennis based hotel businesses for the 2nd quarter - the firm that operates the Auburn Lodge Ho tel entered a contract of €1.523m while the operator of Hotel Wood stock, Tulipbay Ltd entered a con tract worth €354,900. A spokesman for the Dept cau tioned: “The values associated with the contracts in the EU Notice are estimates of total values and should not be taken as the amounts that have or will be paid out. He added: “Furthermore, our contracts typically have no-fault break clauses available to both parties, meaning that should cir cumstances change significantly for either, the contract can be ter minated (with adequate notice, etc) so that the full value of the contract may not be realised.”
Seven County Clare accom modation providers signed Government contracts with a cumulative esti mated value of €6.36m to accommodate Ukrainian refugees in the second quarter of this year. That is according to recently released contract details by the Dept of Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration andClareYouth.has become home to one of the highest populations of Ukrainians per capita in the coun try and the figures provided by the Dept of Integration show that one Lisdoonvarna based firm, The Hy dro Hotel Ltd which operates the Hydro Hotel entered a contract worth €1.53m with the Dept. Another hotel firm, Windward Management Ltd operating the Park Inn hotel entered a contract worth €955,000 while a third firm, Atlantic Hotel Management Ltd operating Lahinch Lodge entered a contract worth €329,400 to house Ukrainian refugees.
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It adds that on this basis the De partment has chosen to enter into short term contracts with the pro viders listed, in the context of an ongoing emergency response to a humanitarian crisis. It is intended that a formal pro curement competition will be run for any long term service require ments needed. impression of the new private housing scheme
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The figures also show that Kilkee Town Ltd operating the Kilkee Bay Hotel entered a contract worth €1.52m while the Cliffs of Moher Hotel Ltd which operates the Cliffs of Moher hotel entered a contract worth €150,150.
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PLANS for a new windfarm off the coast of West Clare are to be lodged by a leading renewable energy company, writes Páraic McMahon On Friday, Mainstream Renewable Power an nounced its intention to develop a “significant new offshore wind project” off the coast of Clare which is designed to support the Government's carbon emis sions targets for the electricity sector by 2030. The Clare Echo understands that the project is currently at the early feasibility stages with develop ers hopeful of having a capacity of 1GW or sufficient to meet the electricity needs for 600,000 homes.
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Mainstream is in the process of conducting ear ly-stage development activities. The site will be across the Clare and Kerry coastline and will be ap proximately 20km from the coast and include areas of the county such as Kilrush and Doonbeg. Four shellfish farming sites (West Shannon Rinev ella, West Shannon Carrigaholt, West Shannon Poulnasherry Bay and West Shannon Ballylongford are located within the proposed cable investigation area and 8km from the Wind Farm investigation area.Ifsuccessful with the development, Mainstream will be establishing a 15-year community benefit fund for the local coastal community and will work closely with local stakeholders ahead of designing a scheme that ensures that the community benefits in the most effective way. Mainstream will invite local groups and members of the public to take part in the first in a series of public consultation engagements. for
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wom an has expressed her disgust at the decision to scrap a promised inde pendent review of testimo ny given by survivors of the Mother and Baby homes. Last June, Minister for Children, Equality, Disabil ity, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman (GP) announced plans to bring proposals to Cabinet to ap point an international human rights expert to re-examine the written testimony given to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, and report back thisThisyear. followed concerns raised by women who lived in the institutions and aca demics over how testimony provided to the confidential committee was handled. A member of the commission of investigation had admit ted these personal stories had been discounted because they were provided in private and not under Accordingoath.to a spokesper son for Minister O’Gorman, he believes a new initiative “to support survivors to tell their personal story, so that it can be formally recorded and accepted as part of the official record, provides the best op portunity for responding to the concerns of survivors in a meaningful way”. Lauretta Callaghan O’Dea entered the doors of the Mother and Baby home in Dunboyne, Co Meath in 1987 when she was 20 years old and six months pregnant. The Kil rush woman who shared her story for the first time in an interview with The Clare Echo last year, recalled that she had “nowhere to go”. One year on from that in terview, Lauretta spoke of her disgust at the Government’s decision. “I’ll tell you what, it’s absolutely appalling, no woman once she has given her first statement, she should be believed and not have to re live her nightmare a second or third time, it was enough to go through those institutions, they shouldn’t have to relive that pain and trauma for a second time. Every woman in this country has a right to a voice, no woman should be held back because of other’s opinions”. She said the move was one of “betrayal” and questioned if the Minister tru ly understood the matter. paraic@clareecho.ie
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SIBLINGS often disagree but for four sisters the Bachelor of Science in Industrial Biochemistry at University of Limerick has proven to be the perfect pathway for all their ambitions, writes Páraic Mc Mahon The Ryan family from Killaloe reached a significant mile stone as twin sisters Anna and Rosaleen graduated from the BSc in Industrial Biochemistry in the Faculty of Science and Engineering on Monday, following a career path that their two older sisters had previously walked before them. Their sister Kate completed the BSc in Industrial Bio chemistry in 2018 and eldest sister Sally also graduated from the programme in 2016, later gaining a doctorate in the field in Commenting2020. on the family’s obvious love of science Anna said: “We all had an interest in science from the beginning, we went to St Anne’s Sec ondary School in Killaloe and got a great foundation in the science subjects”. Professor Tewfik Souli mane, Head of the Depart ment of Chemical Scienc es, who lectured each of the sisters during their time in UL, said the programme was a popular one. “I was delighted to see them back at our celebra tion in the Department after graduation and I congratulated their par ents whom I have come to know, as they have come to so many graduations over the years,” Professor Souli maneAnnaadded.isnow pursuing a PhD in Trinity College Dublin while Rosaleen aims to work in the thriving Bio medical industry, just like her siblings Sally and Kate.
While the group has reduced the number of gatherings since COVID-19, for those who attend Caint agus Comhrá the coffee mornings, and the Irish language as a whole, are still a great source of joy in their lives, “I love it, I love the whole idea of tradition. It’s part of who we are” said Sean McDer mott, one of the ‘cainteorí’ there on Saturday.Seanspent much of his life in En gland. Though he returned to Ire land and became a primary school teacher, he felt he’d lost much of Irish during his time abroad. Caint agus Comhrá has helped him get more confident with the language, “if you don’t use it, you lose it. It’s a wonderful opportunity to come and sit here and speak, whether you have a lot of Irish or a little you can still feel part of it and you’re not made feel different."
Everybody in Caint agus Comhrá is hopeful about the fu ture of Irish in Clare, “I’d say there is a slow but strong revival. Maybe through so many children going to the Gaelscoil and the Gaelcho láiste. It’s amazing too the number of people that have come to Ireland from another country and are very anxious to learn it.,” said Sean. This a significant phenome non the members of Caint agus Comhrá have noticed in recent years, many non-Irish nationals have developed a great enthusiasm to learn the language. The group has been visited by people from all over the world including Canada, The United States, Poland, En gland and Jamacia. James Meade, who was at the meet up on Saturday, is a retired Irish teacher originally from Span ish Point though he moved to En nis 53 years ago. He came to Irish out of the ne cessity to make a living but now he has a real love of the language, and he too has noticed a small revival, “I’ve been teaching Irish most of my life. I’d gone a bit rusty to be honest but for the last five years I’ve been asked to teach Irish in the men’s shed in Clarecastle so I’ve been doing that and there are about 8 and 10 fellas that are doing it with us, including Bishop Willie Walsh."So,I’ve refreshed the Irish that I had forgotten because there would have been 25 years where I wasn’t much connected to it but now I’m back at it and enjoying it”.
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CAINT agus Comhrá are celebrating a decade of their Irish language meet ups this year. The group which gets together at 11am on Saturdays and Mondays at the glór Café, as well as 8pm on Thursdays from Sep tember 8th, have casual conversa tions, over coffee, through Irish. Reg O’Rourke, one of the group’s founders, explained its develop ment to The Clare Echo, “We be gan in 2012. We started above in town in the evening and then we moved to coffee time in the morn ing. Eventually the thing expand ed. We used to go to Suas and there would be 20 or 30 people, it would be overcrowded, it would fill the whole shop. So, we spread out and there would be an Irish coffee morning, every morning, in one coffee shop or another somewhere in Ennis. People come, people go. There might be 10 people here this morning and 20 next week, you don’t know who’s coming, it’s all very casual and all very enjoyable”.
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SCONE MAD FOR GAEILGE: Peadar Derrane from Ennis and Micheál Faherty from Inis Meáin with an Irish speaking group called Caint agus Comhra who meet up regularly at glór Photo by Natasha Barton
Welcome to the Cliffs of Mowhair
Geraldine added, “The Cliffs take their name from an old promontory fort called Moher which stood once at Hags Head, Hags Head is the southern most point of the Cliffs coast. "The old fort that was there was demol ished in the 1800s and there is a tower there currently at the moment”. Visitor numbers this summer have been positive for the Cliffs, Ms Enright outlined.
Nell's star keeps rising EMERGING filmmaker, Nell Hensey has been selected as a finalist in the Virgin Media Short Film competition for her film ‘Good Chips’. Barefield’s Nell is one of three finalists cho sen from a shortlist of 10 talented applicants, who all received an investment of €6,000 to de velop their script with a mentor. Nell’s film goes back to 1989 in Dublin where a family of Vietnamese immigrants struggle to keep their takeaway business afloat, while their 12-year-old daughter Tam finds common ground with a local Irish boy in an unexpected way. “As Asian Irish women, we wanted to tell the story of our parents, their different cultural values and how they have navigated a new cul ture,” the Clare filmmaker born to an Irish fa ther and Filipino mother said. She was co-writ er and director of the film and expressed her joy at being shortlisted. Her co-writer Brigid Leahy is originally from California but is now living in Dublin where filming will take place. She added, “The film is set in 1980s Ireland but deals with modern themes that have res onance in today's world, especially as there is a notable increase in crimes against the Asian community in Ireland and around the world, giving rise to the #stopasianhate movement."
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CLARE’S leading tourist attrac tion is one of the most mispro nounced sites, a new study has revealed.Language learning platform, Preply has used Google search data to re veal a list of the most mispronounced plac es on the planet and how you pronounce them.Included among them is the Cliffs of Moher which has been named on a map of place names that people always pronounce wrong. Others include, Montreal, Phuket, and Dubai. Preply had not been in touch with management of the famous Clare touristDirectorattraction.ofCliffs of Moher Visitor Ex perience, Geraldine Enright explained that the h is an intergral part to the pronunci ation.She said, “The Cliffs of Moher is how the locals would describe the name, we are pro nouncing the h in the word Moher. How we pronounce it in Clare is the Cliffs of Moher, the people local to the area pronounce the word with the h in it”. She continued, “We get a lot of interna tional visitors to the Cliffs, some people call it the Cliffs of Moher, some people pronounce it the Cliffs of Mowhair, they’re not from the area or familiar with how it is pronounced. We’re happy to welcome visi tors to the area and we don’t mind if they mispronounce the Cliffs”. Hags Head was the site of an Iron Age fort built in the 1st Century BC. This fort gives the Cliffs their name as the word ‘Mothar’ in ancient Gaeilge means ‘ruined fort’. In 1808, this fort was demolished to pro vide material for this new signalling tower. In 1835, O’Briens Tower was completed and a year later, a bridge was built over the Inagh river joining Lahinch and Liscannor, the bridge allowed easier passage for Victo rian visitors making their way to the Cliffs, it also aided local farmers to collect sand and seaweed during the pre-Famine era.
The final production will be broadcast on Virgin Media Television, Virgin Media on De mand and as part of the Dublin International Film Festival programme of events, along with the two other finalists’ films.
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“We’ve had a fantastic summer at the Cliffs of Moher, our visitors are delighted to be back out and about again, the views are absolutely spectacular, we’ve had great weather again this year and we’ve had peo ple come from all over the world who are delighted to be back in Ireland and getting out and about meeting the local people”.
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10 NEWS THURSDAY, SEP 1 2022 MCMAHONPÁRAIC paraic@clareecho.ie tobringsMemorialclosurefamilies www horizonoptical Mie erchants Square, Ennis 065 6822 599 Professional eyecare for the whole family Find us next to O'Mahony s bookshop Complete eyewear from €99 New patients welcome! First class service from eyecare experts lCOMMEMORATION: A wreath is laid at Hannon’s Hill in Newmarket-on-Fergus Photo by Joe Buckley FAMILIES who lost loved ones in a 1961 plane crash in Newmar ket-on-Fergus have said they have received closure through the un veiling of a memorial at the site. On the 23rd January 1961, Air Corps DH Dove Aircraft flew from its base in Baldonnel Aerodrome to Shannon Airport to commence training. The aircraft was en gaged in flying duties relating to the sup port of the Department of Transport and Power, Air Traffic Control Service. Disaster struck on the morning of the 27th at approximately 6am when the air craft was destroyed in a crash at Hannon’s Hill in Newmarket-on-Fergus. Those on board were Capt J. Liddy, Air Corps pilots Lt. D.J. Brady and Lt. P.B. Corr and Mr P.B. Wall and Mr J.C. Donoghue, Department of Transport and Power ATC Assistants. Capt. Liddy was the sole survivor. The maintenance crew on duty in Shannon was Cpl Sam Dooley and A/M John Mahon (Later Sgt). At a special ceremony on Tuesday morn ing officiated by Air Corps Chaplain Fr. Mc Cay Morrissey, family members of the victims and survivors were joined by locals and Irish Air Corps person nel.General Officer Com manding (GOC) Air Corps Brig Gen Rory O'Connor laid a wreath at a new monument sculpted by the Mc Tigues of Kilnamona to remember the victims. Paddy O’Meara was serving in Baldonnel when the crash hap pened. “I identified the location about twelve years ago, I knocked on the door of Michael Hannon and it was com ing up to the 50th anni versary in 2011, this was in 2010 when I met him first, I organised a small service on the site in 2011, we invited Canon Reuben Butler and had a little service to com memorate the fiftieth anniversary of the crash, news of that got out and some of the families contacted me”. Now based in Clare castle, he paid tribute to GOC O’Connor for making this a reality. “I brought him up to show him the site about a year and a half ago and he gave me the goahead to organise the stone on the site, that is what we’re doing today laying the stone, only for him it wouldn’t have happened”.
Emer Toner is the niece of Donal Brady who was tragically killed in the crash, hav ing just been commissioned in Co Clare from Dublin. “He was night flying and from what we’ve heard there was a ros ter switch, he shouldn’t have been up that night but they switched rosters because a colleague was playing a GAA match”. Family members never got over the loss, she admitted. “My grandmother never flew on an aircraft, he was the youngest and he was engaged to be married, he was so young. My mother talked about it a lot”. Based in Galway, Emer admitted she passed the site of the crash one mile from the Ennis to Limerick Rd when travelling to college in Limerick in the days before the motorway, “I passed the gates here so many times and we never knew,” she admitted.
“We never knew the crash happened here because we always assumed it happened on the runway, that was a revelation to us. The farmers have been very good, it was really good to mark it. It’s lovely to have a per manent marker because they were on duty when they died”. She added, “Other accidents have hap pened but this was never marked, they were very unlucky they came over the trees and there was a wind shear that went up and caught the plane, they did it successful ly earlier, the tree line is broken and it never grew back, the crash site was here and they had to pull all of the bits of metal out, it was here for years. It is closure and it’s nice that it is Grahammarked”.Liddy is the eldest son of Cap tain Liddy who was the sole survivor, he can still vividly recall the events of 1961. “I remember as a young fella, I was thirteen or fourteen at the time on that Saturday morn ing at about 6am with two officers arriving at the door to tell us about the accident, it was a very sad occasion, the other four guys were all so young, I met Brian Carr alright, it was a very tragic situation for them all. In those days, aviation was a very danger ous occupation, there was a lot of accidents in Shannon during those years, nowadays an accident is a major event because it is so rare, it wasn’t commonplace back then but it was quite frequent”. His father died in a subsequent aviation accident. He told The Clare Echo of the commemoration, “I’ve two sets of feelings, one is that I’m delighted to be associated with the event, I think it’s very important to commemorate events like this, I also feel a little bit of an imposter in that my father survived, there are other families here to day who had family members that tragi cally didn’t survive the event and there’s a bit of displaced survivor guilt for me, they have a much greater loss on this occasion”.
Rallying against 'laws made by landlords for landlords'
l CRISIS: Robbie Scanlon speaking on Saturday Photo by Natasha Barton
INFLATIONARY pressure is threatening the feasibili ty of SMEs throughout the country as energy prices continue to climb, leaving Clare businesses in great uncertainty, writes Tadhg HollandSean Lally of Hotel Woodstock says his energy bills are up 200% on this time last year, at that rate it will cost him an addition al €200,000 per annum to keep the lights on. “There’s an extra €17,000 gone into energy per month for the coming months. We have put a lot of work into the green energy side of things and trying to reduce our energy. Even with all of that work there’s still [this in crease]. Electricity and gas are not the kind of thing you can put on your menu as a surcharge, it’s a hidden cost but it’s a very relevant cost. We’re certainly in a cri sis situation now,” he said. Sean says that in an econ omy like this, where euro zone inflation hit an all-time high yesterday of 9.1%, very soon small businesses won’t be viable, “absolutely 100% not, it’s not sustainable.
"Small to medium busi nesses just won’t be able to survive. Where it’s particu larly difficult is small, standalone cafes, restaurants and bars.”Anne Willis, owner of The Castle Coffee House & Eat ery in Clarecastle told The Clare Echo that just keeping the doors open is a constant struggle, “just as recently as last night I got an email from one of our suppliers saying that five more items have gone up in price. Every week I get these emails from suppliers."Food costs are rising daily, they really are, that’s the most frightening thing and you’re not always able to pass it on to the custom er because at the end of the day you lose the business if things become too expen sive. We’re not sure [if it’s sustainable to keep going at this rate], we’re taking it month by month."
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“It’s something that’s constant ly pushed down by governments and it’s not just here in Ireland it’s across the world. When you have people joining together, collective ly pushing for change that forces those currently benefiting from the status quo to give up some thing, whether it’s by government actors, whether it’s by the media, it’s often something that’s pushed down as an avenue people can take. The reason for that is because it is an avenue that brings about real change that can help people’s lives. I do think it’s something we should be pushing for here in Clare, it was a haven for those land league acts, and Clare could be the haven that pushes these ideas across the board” he added.
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HOLLANDTADHG THE Clare branch of the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) met for the first time on Saturday as they dis cussed how to tackle the current housing crisis facing the county. CATU, which began in 2020, has over 4,000 members nationwide. They say they organise to combat the “urgent economic and social issues most of us face in our dai ly lives” mainly through picketing illegal evictions and lobbying the government. The new union di vision established in Ennis this weekend is the eighth CATU branch.“Housing is one of the biggest problems across the country and Ennis has the same problems as everywhere else except, unlike in other cities, it has no rent pressure zone. That will be one of the things CATU will be looking to pressure. In Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway landlords can only put the prices up by 2% annually but here in Ennis they can decide to dou ble it overnight and tenants have to pay it or get out” said Ruairí Ó Fathaigh, co-chair of the Limerick CATU branch who spoke to some of the new union members as they met by the Eamon de Valera statue in HeEnnis.said, “If you wanted to get a place [in Clare] it would be very difficult even though we know that there are over 500 homes empty in Ennis and across the county there are nearly 2 or 3,000 empty. I think there needs to be a change in policy of how housing is distrib uted and the only way to do that is through people joining groups like CATU, having collectives which push back against laws which are made by landlords for landlords.”
Soaring costs putting businesses in crisis
Robbie Scanlon, one Ennis local present at the meeting, was already thinking about radical steps the group could take. He commented, “remember the golden rule, he or she with the most gold makes the rules. Personally, I feel hit them where it hurts the most, their pockets."Basically, shut down the whole town of Ennis with a street protest and very quickly all the shop own ers will be contacting the council lors saying those hippies are creat ing a problem whereby we can’t do business. Guaranteed the problem will be fixed very quickly”.
“We need to look at Clare as one of the main areas that was push ing during the land league for or ganisations like this, bottom-up organisations where tenants were saying no more, we won’t take rent increases, we won’t take evictions. The result of the land leagues was that the British government de cided to give people loans to buy up their properties because the al ternative was full all-out riots and people just taking properties for themselves. We need something similar today,” Ruairí maintained.
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EQUAL RIGHTS: Padraic Hayes and Trish McNamara of the Clare Leader Forum with Mick Guinee and Gerry Murphy of Ei Electronics
KILRUSH native Sean Fitz gerald has been announced as the new head of Rota ry Ireland, writes Elaine Tubridy Sean identified expanding the organisation’s member ship and raising its public profile as his key objectives for the next year. The former ship’s captain believes Rotary Ireland is the perfect organisation for young people who wish to turn ideas into reality and become a force for positive change.“Whether it’s helping lo cal communities abroad or closer to home with edu cation, utility or healthcare projects Rotary Ireland has the experience, the exper tise, and the local and global networks to make a hugely positive contribution. But for that to happen we need to inspire and enthuse our cur rent membership to share their knowledge and to be come more involved with our young people and our local communities” Captain Fitz geraldRotarysaid.Ireland is a com munity driven, humanitarian service and membership organisation with clubs in every county in Ireland. It currently has 68 clubs on the island with 1,700 members. Visit rotary.ie for info.
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Clare Leader Forum reps heading for Brussels
ANmeetingtobringingstrategyENHANCEMENTaimedatabuzzbackEnnistymonisopposition from the local heritage group. For Ennistymon to become more pedestrian friendly is one of the targets of the Ennistymon En hancement Strategy along with the provision of increased parking for cars and coaches, the development of a pedestrian crossing on the old bridge and attractive walking routes. The strategy is being pre pared by Ennistymon Town Team and Galway-based Helena McEl meel Architects in partnership with Clare County Council and Clare Local Development Agency. Up to 75 new parking spaces are said to be included in the plans but locals have criticised the lack of information on spaces lost in the redevelopment.Membersof the Town Team have said its preparation is timely. A three-hour public consultation of local residents was facilitated by the consultants and local authority at the Teach Cheoil in recent weeks with online submissions also ac cepted.Denis Vaughan of Save Ennisty mon’s Heritage said, “our town planners don’t get it”. He said they along with architects and “brave county councillors treated us to a carefully choreographed presenta tion complete with greeted maps, drawings and photos”. Vaughan said substance was lacking from the plans with “very little to be excited about”. He added, “they tried to gloss over the proposed loss of our his toric town square” and voiced crit icism of the relocation of the mar ket stalls, “Ennistymon is a market town for goodness sakes”. Insufficient information has been received regarding Blake’s Corner and the €16m inner relief road, he said. “I ask what on earth is An Bord Pleánala doing. They are more than a year and half late with their judgement. Those in the know found time to stick a corrugated roof at back of Blakes Corner, a listed building. "It is insane, replace this mon strosity with Moher slates now. And while they are at it do the same with our footpaths”.
“One other proposal is to re place the town square with trees and seating. The square is used for deliveries in and off the square. Historically, the square has been used for meetings by politicians and"Thedignitaries.square should not be changed, it’s a vital asset for En nistymon. This bungling incom petence and lack of vision is un acceptable and severely damaging for tourism. we all need to make our voices heard, contact your lo cal councillor and the responsible Minister, Darragh O’Brien de mand action. The County Council must cop on and stop destroying Ennistymon before it is too late,” Vaughan concluded. group hit out at Ennistymon enhancement strategy
Trish McNamara is one of the two mem bers attending the drive later this month. She explained that it was “for disabled people all over Europe. We all meet up to gether to highlight disabilities throughout the world and the need for us to be seen because an awful lot of the time not only are we not seen but we’re not heard, so we make an impact in Brussels. We also meet likeminded people, it’s almost like peer counselling, we learn from each other and we get ideas from each other on how we can improve our lives”. Trish was diagnosed with multiple scle rosis in 2001. For the last nine years she has used a wheelchair full time. Despite having the degenerative disease for more than two decades Trish still drives and works parttime at The Cliffs of Moher information desk. “I’m one of these people who are very determined” said Trish, “I am very adamant that I keep as much of my life as normal as possible and I will fight vigorously to keep mySheindependence”.isquickto dissuade any negativi ty around the treatment of disabled peo ple and underscores that the disabled are “grateful” for the help they receive, but she says there are “holes in the service.” It’s these holes Trish and many other activists are looking to get resolved when they go to Brussels.“Ingoing to Brussels, we are going to lobby the MEPs to put more supports in place. We have the United Nations charter on people with disabilities that was adopted by the UN in 2006. It was signed by Ireland in 2017. Yet nothing has happened since. There are 643,000 people with disabilities in Ireland, that’s 13.5% of the population. With that number very few of us have a voice. We need to change from the medi cal model of ‘there’s something wrong with these people, we need to look after them, we know what’s best for them’ into an equal rights, human rights model”.
'Town planners don't get it'
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MEMBERS of the Clare Leader Forum are getting ready to attend the European Network on Independent Living’s Free dom Drive in Brussels this September after Shannon’s Ei Electronics donated €2,000 to theTheorganisation.ClareLeader Forum are a prominent advocacy group in the county entirely con stituted of disabled people working for the betterment of disabled people. Attending the Freedom Drive is a major event for the organisation as the biannual protest march is seen as a significant meet ing place for disability activists in the EU.
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13NEWSTHURSDAY, SEP 1 2022 Choice and Challenge on Top Links and Parkland Courses When it comes to golf, we really are spoiled for choice in Clare - a fact not lost on visitors who travel from around the world to play on our links and parkland courses. There are eleven top-class courses in the county, and most are open year-round. You can play championship links, a cliff-top course, or a parkland of tree-lined fairways. If you are into golf, why not try a course you are not familiar with? Here are your choices... GOLF COURSE TYPE WEBSITE Dromoland Golf Club Parkland www.Dromoland.ie East Clare Golf Club Parkland www.EastClareGolfClub.com Ennis Golf Club Parkland www.EnnisGolfClub.ie Kilkee Golf Club Coastal www.KilkeeGolfClub.ie Kilrush Golf Club Parkland www.KilrushGolfClub.com Lahinch Golf Club - Old Course Links www.LahinchGolf.com Lahinch Golf Club - Castle Course Links www.LahinchGolf.com Shannon Golf Club Parkland www.ShannonGolfClub.ie Spanish Point Golf Club Links www.SpanishPointGolfing.com Trump International Golf Links Links www.TrumpGolfIreland.com Woodstock Golf Club Parkland www.WoodstockGolfClub.com VisitClare.ie Golf Courses in County Clare
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The KPMG Women’s Irish Open is being staged on Dromoland Castle’s 18-hole Championship Course, from September 22nd to 25th. Leona Maguire will be a star attraction as the Ladies European Tour event returns after a 10-year hiatus. It’s a special golf event not to be missed. Tickets are great value and can be purchased online at www.kpmgwomensirishopen.ie. Under 16s are free when accompanied by a paying adult.
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14 NEWS THURSDAY, SEP 1 2022
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DEDICATED to the Irish Air Corps has been offi cially unveiled at the Shannon AviationAircraftMuseum.now permanently housed in Shannon as part of the exhibi tion include Air Corps Fouga Magister F216 which was formerly on display at Collins Barracks and a Reims Rocket Cessna 172, which has the distinction of being the lon gest active aircraft in the fleet with 47 years’ service.Installing the permanent exhibition co incides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Irish Air Corps. Chairperson of the Shannon Aviation Museum, Jane Magill said she was “thrilled” with the large attendance for Tuesday’s un veiling. Their efforts in securing the aircraft for the wing were dedicated to the late Ed die Ryan, he along with Jane spearheaded the opening of the museum in 2008. “Like any collection, it will grow,” she announced while acknowledging the support of Clare County Council, Mick Guinee of Ei Elec tronics, Paddy Purcell, Clare Local Devel opment Company, the county’s Oireachtas members and county councillors. Marking the 83rd anniversary of the first Irish Air Corps deployment to Shannon Airport on 30th August 1939, CEO of Shan non Airport Group, Mary Considine also addressed what she described a “historic opening”. She stated, “The Shannon Avia tion Museum is a really unique experience, it is fantastic to have it on our doorstep and beside Shannon Airport. We’ve had a very successful restoration of services at Shan non Airport since the pandemic. By coming here, our visitors can understand the rich history of aviation in the area, we will do our part to promote the museum”. Irish Air Corps General Officer Com manding and Director of Military Aviation, Brigadier General Rory O'Connor received a presentation from Magill to mark his 40th anniversary of joining the Air Corps. He commended the “passion” shown by Jane and Eddie for the facility. “When we talk about Shannon, almost everyone relates it to aviation, it has a special place in Ireland, they all recognise Shannon and its place in the world”. The history of the Air Corps will not be forgotten thanks to the Museum, he noted.Minister of State with responsibility for Office of Public Works, Patrick O’Donovan (FG) stressed the importance of celebrating such events, the effort in moving the aircraft by the Department of Defence and the prox imity to Shannon Airport. He believed “the story of the Irish Air Corps” would draw people to Shannon.
lCENTENARY: Irish Air Corps General Officer Commanding and Director of Military Aviation, Brigadier General Rory O'Connor Photo by Joe Buckley BOYS: Harry O'Loughlin and Oisin McGrath Photo by Joe Buckley
Clare’s first citizen, Cllr Tony O’Brien (FF) stated, “I can’t let the opportunity pass with out passing comment on the site of the mu seum, it is only a few kilometres from Shan non Airport which has the potential to be the greatest economic driver for the region”.
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Clare TD Joe Carey (FG) believed the mu seum could become “a magnet” and that the amount of school tours visiting the facility would rise. “We need to spread the word and get peo ple to flock here. The whole world knows about the Cliffs and Bunratty, there’s a small blip that we should be telling every one about,” Deputy Cathal Crowe (FF) re marked. He said that his days flying planes in Coonagh were “some of the best days of my life”.
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TII safety concerns hold up €250k active travel project
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Senior executive engineer in the West Clare MD, Alan Kennelly confirmed, “The initial proposal is no longer the NTA’s pre ferred design solution and the scope of the project will change. The road design office have prepared the requested report togeth er with a suite of options which includes a multi criteria analysis of the available op tions to complete the Active Travel works in Lissycasey”.Thisreport has been submitted to the NTA for review with a response awaited by the Council “to progress matters”. An update had been sought by Cllr PJ Kel ly (FF) at a recent meeting of the West Clare MD who struggled to comprehend the delay, “I hope common sense would prevail”. Also at this meeting, he appealed to the local au thority to bring the L-20681-0 at Derryna clicka, Kilmurry McMahon to an acceptable state of repair. This road is not included on either this year’s schedule of MD works or the three year programme, Kennelly confirmed. He described it as “a local tertiary road and as such carries very low volumes of traffic”. paraic@clareecho.ie
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DESPITE making a successful application to the National Transport Authority (NTA), Clare County Council have been unable to complete foot path and public lighting works in the heart of InLissycasey.Januaryof this year, €250,000 was allo cated for Lissycasey footpaths in the coun ty’s tranche of Active Travel funding which totalled €5.3m. The initial proposal envis aged an upgrade which made it necessary to have a continuous path to either end of the village.However, a number of concerns were raised by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) regarding road and traffic safety as the road is situated on the N67 national second aryPreparationroute. of a feasibility and option se lection report was requested by the NTA fol lowing “ongoing workshops” between them and the Council’s road design office.
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Thought for the week
16 COLUMNIST THURSDAY, SEP 1 2022
Eoin Neylon An inside look at Clare’s political spectrum THIS week marks a (DIAS)tuteinstitutedvatoryhisach,deworld.Offalytheexploration.ryIrelandrunway’slanding,cybeingplayedprogram,outspacephysics.master’shallstomonththeheart,closeForsuchatscreamingTheonwardstolunarputmissionsthebervisitbecamesinceincessationEarth’stoandInternationalsavefinedofendeavours.andtechnologicalonemonumentalforhumanexplorationalForahalfacentury,allhumanityhasbeenconsolelytoplanetEarth,theoccupantsoftheSpaceStation,beforethat,Mir,prioritscontrolburnupinatmosphereontheofitsoperation2001.It’sbeenalmost50yearsthecrewofApollo17thelasthumanstotheMoon,inDecem1972,butthisweekseeslaunchoftheArtemistoonceagainhumansbackonthesurfacewithaviewsendingthefirsthumanstoMarsthereafter.innerchildinmeiswithexcitementtheprospectofseeingaspectacleformyself.fulldisclosureofhowthistopicistomyandtransparencyforarticletofollow,thiswillseemereturnthe(virtual)lecturetopursueapart-timedegreeinAstroClareisnostrangertodiscourse.ThroughtheNASAShuttleShannonairportanimportantroleinoneoftheemergenrunwaysforashuttlegivenourairportgenerouslength.hasastoriedhistowhenitcomestospaceForatime,telescopeinBirr,Co.wasthelargestintheWhenClareTD,EamonValerabecameTaoiseitwasapetprojectoftosaveDunsinkObserinwestDublinandtheDublinInstiforAdvancedStudiesin1940todojust that. The work done at DIAS over the years has fed through, via Ireland’s mem bership of the European Space Agency (ESA) since 1975, to tunitymonth,processestheufacturingastelecoms,hassearch,thecreateonlyandtopaniespeople,topotentialthisAsthethisvativebillioncurrentlyspaceneedsontheinvestmentstudiesglobalandniesmentever,operationalpercentatoit?”spacesoonmonthanfurtherdetector,helpingDIASforWebbrecentlysuchscientificground-breakinginnovation.OneexampleofthisistheoperationalJamesSpaceTelescopewhichscientistsfromwereinstrumentalindevelopitsMIRIallowingusseeintothecosmoseverbefore.However,themostcomquestionthatarisesasassomeonementionsisalways,“isitworthIreland’scontributiontheESAisroughly€20myear,orlessthanhalfaofits€6.5billionbudget.HowthatmodestinvestallowsIrishcompatotenderforprojectsresearchersaccesstoground-breakinganddata.Ourthoughlimitsawardofcontractsapro-ratabasis,itnoting.Theglobaleconomyisworthaestimated€360ayear,butconserprojectionswillseeriseto€1.2trillionbymiddleofthiscentury.growthindustriesgo,isonewiththegreatestofall.Henceitisnosurpriseseetheworld’srichestandlargestcomvyingforpositiongetaheadofthegameasliceofthepie.Notdoesspaceexplorationopportunitieswithinspaceindustryandrebuttheinnovationknockonadvantagesinmedicine,aswellaeronauticalandmanindustrieswithdevelopmentofnewandtechnologies.OnmyhoneymoonlastIhadtheopportovisitCERNnear
The Artemis missions to put people on the Moon within the decade, includ ing the first Europeans, first women, and first people of colour, signals human ities return to the frontier of exploration after much stagnation.TheNASA and ESA joint program represents the best of what we as a species can achieve working together, as does the work at CERN. It’s long past time Ireland got more involved in the ESA, at CERN and it’s beyond time we formed a national space program, under the ESA umbrella, to help drive that innovation at home. The first step should be for Ireland to join the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). Future generations of Irish researchers, industry and innovators will thank us.
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Geneva in Switzerland and marvel up close at this human endeavour to understand the universe of which we are a part. As some people back home put it to me, much of what goes on there may go over their head, but each and every one of you have used or benefitted from technol ogy developed there which includes the internet, touch screen devices, imaging processes that have led to breakthrough medical ad vances and innovations in computing that led directly to development of proces sors for laptops and mobile phones. Yet this is another scientific community and opportunity to which Ire land plays no part. To date, Ireland has failed to play a part in this working monument to sci entific discovery. This cuts off move avenues for Irish researchers and industry to get more involved in works there (although I was fortu nate to meet Irish scientists working there by chance).
SCULLYRONAN DID you know that even the apostle Paul struggled with doing the right thing? Yes, this is the same Paul who wrote two-thirds of the New Testament. Paul was very transparent about His struggle in Romans 7:15- "For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate." I can relate. How about you?Paul is talking about how his actions were not lining up with his will and on many occasions didn't do the right thing. Mar tin Luther King said, ‘On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”Theultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of convenience, but where they stand in moments of challenge, moments of great crisis and controversy and moments when they are called upon to do the right thing. The Power of Kindness As the saying goes, “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." The fruit of all true life practices is kindness, kindness to others and also to ourselves. It is easy to speak and read about kindness, it is another to make it into your flesh and bones. In most cases, kindness is not beyond any of us because it usually costs no money. It may take the sacrifice of time and energy. It may require the discipline to be thought ful of others needs and to make the effort to act. How much is required to cul tivate smiling rather than frowning, to pay a visit, to say a word of encourage ment or comfort, to show friendliness by warmly and sincerely shaking hands or giving a hug to some one? The consequences of kindness are incalculable, for such a spirit can ripple out to touch the lives of those far removed from the original act. Kindness sows the seeds that can only bear goodKindnessfruit. should begin with our family and close friends. Ironically and tragically, many people display their most unkind behavior with the ones they love the most. Kindness is not a selfish attempt to get something for ourselves. It is a show of mercy and love to other human beings with no thought of reward. May we all develop the same type of love and kindness God has for us. Remember as Scott Adams once said, "there’s no such thing as a small act of kind ness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." Can you imagine a world where no one gave to each other? Where we all just looked after our own needs and ignored everyone else’s?This would surely be a miserable place to live, for ultimately, whether spontaneous or planned, we cannot be happy with out being kind, by giving, loving and caring for each other. Acts of kindness are essential to our well-being, as they liberate us from self-obsession, selfishness, and isolation. They are the effect of an open and lovingTruenature.generosity is giving without expectation, with no need to be repaid in any form. This is the most powerful act of generosity, as it is unconditional, un attached, and free to land wherever it will. Whether we give to our family, friends, or strangers, it is the same. We may feel we have little to offer, but whether it is a few pennies or a whole bankroll, a cup of tea or a banquet is irrel evant. It is the act of giving itself that is important. As Mahatma Gandhi said, "Almost anything kind we do will seem insignificant, but it is very important that we do it." Acts of kindness makes us feel good, valuable and alive. Think about the last time you went out of your way to be kind to someone. Didn’t it make your day too? Many people extend kindness as part of their good nature, but what if we made a more conscious effort to be even kinder by practicing kindness regu larly? We will be spreading good feelings and making a difference that has a lasting, ripple effect and undoubtedly changing the world. Practice kindness while expecting nothing in return except the good feel ings that these acts provide is life-giving and can also be life-saving. Thought for the week As your thought for the week, make it your goal and habit to do the right thing and to be actively looking for opportunities to show kindness and “Do Good” to one anoth er and to others when it is possible and needed. Practice genuine kindness as much as you can in your daily life and ‘plant flowers’ and 'warm people's hearts' wherever you can! Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.No act of kindness is ever wasted. And always remember that compassion has no limit and kindness has no enemy. Be kind and “Do good”, always or as much as you can!! My prayer for you this week is that you, May play more, laugh more, love more, live more, give more, receive more, and celebrate more! May you open to the vast possibilities and boundless love and wisdom of your transcendent truer self. May the doors to your brightest futures swing wide open. May you know the full extent of your worth and deserving and open to receive all that your heart desires. May gifts, andlovingknowsituationsgooddoyourself.arounddaily,laughterjoyyoulightoftoworld.dawnserendipitiessynchronicities,andsuccesseseffortlesslyinyourMayyouconnectandexperiencemorethelove,beautyandthatyouare.Maysparkleandglowwithandmagic.MayyourrefreshtheworldbrighteningallthoseyouincludingMayyoualwaystherightthinganddowhenfacedwithlife'sandMayyouthatyouareloved,andloveable,everalways.Amen.
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glór to mark 21st birthday with celebratory concert
Ennis Camera Club vision shared
IMAGES by members of Ennis Camera Club are now being showcased as part of a new exhibition.
17Arts & EntertainmentTHURSDAY, SEP 1 2022 lSNAP HAPPY: Some of the images captured by Ennis Camera Club lEXHIBITION: Strawberry Moon by Gina O'ConnorbyPÁRAIC McMAHON by PÁRAIC McMAHON
Outside In now on display in Scariff
Ennis Camera Club aims to be a social club as well as a forum for learning and after meetings formally end, members are encour aged to stick around and socialise.Theclub is affiliated to both the Southern Asso ciation of Camera Clubs (SACC) and the Irish Photographic Federation (IPF).Many members are also members of the Royal Pho tographicSupportedSociety.bythe Clare Arts Office, the free exhibi tion runs at Clare Museum until September 16th.
Produced by Áine Hensey in partnership with glór, the concert on 26th November at 8pm will bring together a flavour of Clare’s rich musical and theatrical talent that has delighted audiences in the past 21 Ticketsyears.goon sale this Thursday for €26 plus a €1 booking fee. The concert will also be recorded and available to view as a ticketed event online for €10 from Monday De cember 5th through until Thurs day January 5th.
AMILESTONE 21 years in business will be cel ebrated by glór this November.Sinceopening its doors in 2001, more than 950,000 people have attended over 8200 ticketed performances and events at Followingglór. the official opening on Friday 30th November 2001 by former Clare TD and then Min ister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Síle de Valera (FF) before a specially invited audience, over 60 great Clare performersthree generations of the best play ers of Clare music took to the glór stage.They included Tony McMahon, Paddy Canny, James Cullinan, Tony Linnane, Noel Hill, Siobhan Peoples, Martin Hayes, Josephine Marsh, Maura O'Connell, the Tulla Céilí Band, and the Kilfenora Céilí Band, to present a night of music such as has never been heard be fore.With Martin Hayes and the Saw Doctors performing over the next two nights, glór’s opening week end certainly served as a musical feast to remember. The opening night concert was broadcast in full by Clare FM, and RTÉ Radio One transmitted the second half. To celebrate reaching the mile stone, glór is collaborating with broadcaster and producer Áine Hensey to present a 21st birthday concert which will once again raise the roof and feature a host of spe cial guests from Clare and beyond. The concert will also feature just some of the many recent collabo rations that glór is very proud of. Miltown Malbay’s Therese McInerney will be MC for the concert that will feature some of the county’s finest musicians and performers including Tim Collins, Ceara Conway, Éamonn Cotter, Gráinne Cotter, Geraldine Cotter, Marian Curtin, Diarmuid de Fao ite, Maeve Donnelly, Eimear How ley, Sharon Howley, Aisling Lyons, Seán Lyons, Mary Mac Namara, Andrew MacNamara, Therese McInerney, Naomi Louise O’Con nell, Emer O'Flaherty, Síomha, Sean Shannon, Dermot Sheedy and many more. 21 years later a generation of younger Clare musicians will take to the stage to echo the opening night performance and to cele brate in true Clare style.
‘OUTSIDE IN’ a new exhibition by Limer ick-born artist Gina O’Connor is now on display at the Scariff Library Gallery, writes PáraicClareMcMahonArtsOffice and Scariff Library Gallery have collaborated with Gina to showcase the exhibition which drew inspiration on the beauty of the West of Ireland.Gina divides her time between Limerick and West Clare. While Gina is mostly selftaught, she has also completed art courses in TUS (LCAD) and LCFE.Gina has exhibited in many galleries includ ing Draíoctht (Adare), The Bridge (Ballina/ Killaloe) and Hare’s Corner (Limerick). She is inspired by the nurturing beauty of the West of Ireland and draws on her ex periences of being in nature on foot, on bike and swimming in the sea.Her exhibition, ‘Out side In’ is a reflection of theseGinaexperiences.worksmain ly in oils with palette knife and brush in a semi-abstract style. Gina loves to experi ment and is often sur prised by the interest ing and colourful faces, figures and features that emerge from her explorative journeys onAtmosphere,canvas. emo tion, and motion are central to her work. Gina describes her ex perience of painting as an “urgent outburst of expression”.Thisfree exhibition runs from 24th Au gust to 16th September 2022, and everyone is welcome.
‘A Collective Vision’ is the title of the exhibition which features images from the Ennis Camera Club based in the county town.Its members and vis itors, from beginners to advanced, share a love for photography, and a deter mination to continually learn and improve. Meet ings are held fortnightly in the award-winning Power’s Pub in Clarecastle and ac tivities include group out ings, guest speakers, work shops and competitions.
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lRED HOT: The inaugural Caherconnell International Furnace Festival showcased medieval iron smelting and forging at Caherconnell Stone Fort. More than 50 blacksmiths and traditional iron smelters from accross Ireland, the UK, Europe and the USA participated Photos by Chris Copley
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ST FRANCIS Credit Union Clare Community were represented by 90 children from 11 areas in the National Finals of the Community Games Arts & Cultural events on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th August in Carlow. They participated in – Chess, Draughts, Quiz, Art, Model Making, Solo and group music, Solo and group singing, Recitation, Choir U13 and U16. They came first in three events, one second, two third and four fourth place bring home 27 Gold, One Silver, Eight Bronze and 25 fourth place medals a total of 61 medals. The standard was extremely high but those who were outside the medals enjoyed and learned from the experience of being in the final. Meanwhile, The St Francis Credit Union Clare Community Games Pitch and Putt competitions for U16 Boys and Girls was held on Saturday morning in glorious sunshine in Kilnamona Pitch and Putt course. Sixteen boys and five girls from eight areas participated. The course was in fantastic condition. It was co ordinated by Jimmy Maher ably assisted by Connie Corry and Enda Clune, Martin and Anne Commane were also present and provided refreshment to the children after the competition. Martin also presented the medals. Martin and Anne give their facilities free of charge to Community Games each year. The boys competition was extremely close with a countback needed to separate second and third. The first three boys and three girls now go forward to the National Finals in Westport Golf Club on 9th October. The three boys are from Ennis St John’s, the girls are from Quin/Clooney. Ennis St John’s Ennis St Jack Rush
3. Ben Lyne – Ennis St John’s 4. Jack Mc Namara – Sixmilebridge/Kilmurry GIRLS 1. Sive Timmons – Quin/Clooney 2. Bebhinn Gallagher – Quin/Clooney 3. Ciara O’Dwyer – Quin/Clooney 4. Ciara Corry – Cooraclare/Cree lWINNERS: (right) The U16 national champion Chess team from
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Dear Sir, A new sign on the façade of CBS Ennis senior school is in the English language mainly, with a token pinch of Irish. It cannot be described as bilingual. Suggesting some ways their sign might be enhanced I wrote to the CBS Board of Management, before Christmas last. Preferably, in the view of many, their sign could be solely in Irish, as is the case on the new Primary school next door – Bunscoil na mBráithre. If it desires its sign to be bilingual, it would be sensible that CBS display the same information in both languages. Welcome too would be lettering of equal size in the two languages, with our national language appearing first. Foras na Gaeilge I understand gives generous assistance to encourage Irish/bilingual signage, this translates into a minimal cost to the school. CBS senior school BOM has yet to say whether it loves or loathes the above suggestions. Perhaps it might do so now. Yours etc.
CONCERN OF COUNTY CLARE BAHÁ'ÍS FOR CO-RELIGIONISTS IN IRAN THE Bahá'í community in County Clare has expressed grave concern about the recent persecutions being suffered by members of the religion in Iran, the country of its origin. 'Arbitrary arrests, property seizures, even demolition of the homes of Bahá'ís are all part of this new wave of attacks,' explains Madge Rainsford of Rosleven, chairperson of the Local Bahá'í Assembly of Ennis. 'No credible reason is offered by the authorities for these actions and it is clearly all part of an on-going campaign to make life in their homeland intolerable for the Bahá'ís,' she Anadded.outcry in response to these events has featured in international media over the past two weeks, with government representatives of many nations, Amnesty International and the United Nations all making statements in support of the Bahá'ís in Iran and decrying the unjustifiable actions of the Iranian authorities. Among the wave of more than fifty arrests in recent weeks is renowned poet, Mahvash Sabet, who has already served ten years in prison simply because she is a Baha'i. In 2017 Belfast born poet, Michael Longley, shared the PEN Pinter prize with Mahvash Sabet, when he named her “International Writer of Courage."
ENNIS PLAYERS AGM Ennis Players would like to remind all current members that the 2022 Annual General Meeting shall take place on Thursday, September 8th at 8pm in the Rehearsal Space, Doora Industrial Estate, Ennis.
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One County Clare Bahá'í with a particularly keen interest in the recent developments is Daniel Cunningham of Aughanteeroe in Ennis. 'This persecution has been going on ever since the Bahá'í Faith began, nearly 180 years ago. It got very bad in the aftermath of the revolution in 1979 and seems to intensify periodically in the years since,' observes Daniel, whose family roots are in that country. 'My mother is from Iran. She, her sister and their parents came to Ireland in 1985 as refugees from religious persecution,' explains Daniel. 'My grandfather had been fired from his position as director of immunisation programmes in Isfahan province just because he is a Bahá'í. He was also arrested and tortured. His arrest was purely arbitrary, he was never charged with any crime. My mother was expelled from dentistry college because of being a Bahá'í. Finally, after my grandfather was released, the family, except for the eldest sister, escaped into Pakistan, and then came to Ireland from a refugee camp there.'
POKER CLASSIC FOR CRUMLIN A POKER Classic in Aid of Crumlin Children’s Hospital on this Friday 2nd September in Gleeson’s Bar, Sixmilebridge @9pm sharp. Entry €50, No buy backs. Starting Stack €100K. Bonus Chip for anyone checked in before 9pm. For information contact P.J. Phelan 086-8362576
IBTS CLINIC WE ARE short of blood and have organised a clinic on Wednesday 7th of September at Kilrush Community School from 5 to 8.15. Book an appointment on 1800 222 111. New donors are welcome!
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SCULLION TOUR FOR 2 years we isolated from each other. Many were anxious and alone. Throughout these lonesome days, music and songs were a salve and an inspiration. During this time, Scullion recorded an uplifting and inspirational collection of songs for the head and heart and will take to the highway, collapse distance and bring us back together in the halls, front rooms, back rooms and bar rooms of Ireland. Their compelling new album, ‘Time Has Made a Change in Me’, will be shared 30th September 2022, coinciding with an album launch tour across the country, starting with the Greyhound Bar in Kilkee on September 21. Visit https://www.scullion.com/tour for tickets.
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The sister who remained in Iran has also since had to leave her native country and now lives in Texas, USA. As to the current situation, Daniel, who is now himself a dentist, believes that it is very important to increase awareness of these events. 'I think that shining a light on something that is happening in this world is important,' he says. 'If you just let something happen and go by without it being noted, without it being recognised, it's going to continue to happen and continue to intensify and get worse. We don't want the situation to deteriorate to like it was in the years immediately following the revolution. ' Ms. Rainsford added, 'The authorities in Iran need to know that the world is watching what is happening and we need our public representatives to make statements to this effect.'
EUGENE RYAN MEMORIAL WALK NEARING the first anniversary of the passing of Eugene Ryan, a group of his friends intend to climb the 12 O'Clock hills on Saturday September 17th, to remember and reminisce. Eugene completed this climb on 15th September 2021. Anyone who wishes to join them are more than welcome. Assembly at Belvoir Car Park, (Eircode V95 YKN5) at 9.45am, for a 10.00am start with the options of a 5km, 8km or 13km trail. It is intended to have a bucket collection at the carpark with all proceeds going towards Barretstown, a cause close to Eugene’s heart. A 4km guided walk will commence at 10.30am where a local guide will talk about the heritage and social history of families who lived here.
BALLYSHEEN GRAVEYARD COMMITTEE members behind the upkeep of Ballysheen Graveyard are appealing for financial donors to support its enhancement. Recent weeks have seen a high level of voluntary activity undertaken to improve Ballysheen Graveyard in Sixmilebridge with the enhancement remarked on by many visitors in the locality. Most of this work is voluntary but the committee is appealing to anyone who is in a position to financially support the project to get in touch with all donations welcome.
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“We look after each other which is the only way to do it when you’re abroad any way, but we stand by that. Our employee retention is very good, they’re happy work ing with us. Whereas with other companies see people come and go, we’ve held what we have because we do look after them and pay them extra and above to ensure everybody is Emailhappy.”
Cathal at cmcgrath@ allstarinfrastructure.com.au to enquire about job opportunities.
Cathal (35) established the company just over three years ago and already employs 40 people, over half of whom are Irish. Speaking about the move to hire people from Ireland, Cathal explains, “Similar to here in Ireland there’s a scarcity of resources from engineers and supervisors to excavators, operators, plumbers, pipe lay ers, concreters, the list goes on.”
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Cathal moved to Brisbane 12 years ago having previously worked in Kilrush with his uncle Gerry McGrath, a consultant and architect. He believes the prospect of a good working life in Brisbane is an attractive pros pect. Packages for skilled tradesmen with Allstar Infrastructure would range from 100,000-140,000 dollars a year (€69k-96.7k) and Cathal adds “there are plenty of hours as well so there’s always incentives for people who want to earn more.” The Australian Government have in creased the visa requirement age to 45 which broadens the spectrum of potential employees who they can sponsor and aid with residency and citizenship.
Cathal explained that despite experienc ing rapid growth, the lack of staff resources available in Australia “is tying our hands. We’re trying to bring the company to the next phase, the workload is there. A way we see out of it is bringing over workers from Ireland because we have the potential of sponsoring the right candidates.”
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HOLLYSTUART editor@clareecho.ie AN IRISH-owned company based in Brisbane is looking to hire and sponsor people from Clare looking to develop their careers in Australia, writes Stu artAllstarHolly. Infrastructure is owned by Quin native Cathal McGrath along with his business partner Mark O’Neill. The Bris bane-based operator is a civil construction engineering company who carry out con sultancy and contract work in the water and waste water sector.
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A Story of Success in Ireland A leading employer in Shannon, Co Clare and Oranmore, Co Gal way since 2008, Zimmer Biomet’s footprint in Ireland features two state-of-the-art manufacturing fa cilities with a progressive culture of evolution and innovation.
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Zimmer Biomet is committed to helping each and every one of its employees reach their full poten tial in a supportive and friendly atmosphere with a strong focus on people development and further education.Thisisyour opportunity to be come part of a company with a heritage of leadership, a focus on the future and a global presence in an exciting and rewarding medical field. Meet the Team Interested in learning more? Come along to our open event on Thursday the 8th of September from 5pm to 9pm at the company’s operations, Building 2, Shannon Industrial Estate East. All are wel come! Book your place on career wise.ie for employees and their families Access to educational oppor tunities Active Sports & Social club, subsidised canteen and parking on site. Helping alleviate pain
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Giving Back to the Local Community Zimmer Biomet is committed to giving back to the local com munity through company dona tions and employee volunteering with a strong focus on building healthy communities, supporting sick children in Ireland, advancing STEM education and raising envi ronmental awareness.
Fostering the Next Generation Employees volunteer to mentor pupils at local schools through Ju nior Achievement and the compa ny plays an active role in Shannon Chamber of Commerce. Earlier this year with the goal of encour aging a new generation to enjoy a career in STEM, Zimmer Biomet launched an annual scholarship award programme focused on recognising the children or de pendents of its employees in both Shannon and Galway.
A Great Place to Work Zimmer Biomet is currently re cruiting up to 30 Product Builders for its world-class manufacturing operations in Shannon. Previous manufacturing or trade experi ence, while advantageous, is not essential as full training is provid ed.Initially, these are 11-month contracts with Zimmer Biomet’s partner, CareerWise Recruitment. However, 98 percent of Product Builders who complete these con tracts are subsequently offered a permanent position with Zimmer Biomet, enjoying a three percent pay increase on conversion with no probation period required plus the option to request a move to the shift transfer list.
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THE Bellbridge House Hotel prides itself on the ability to tailor wedding packages to suit the individual needs of ev ery wedding Overlookingcouple.the ocean at Spanish Point, the hotel offers an enviable location for those seeking the perfect wedding venue. As their saying goes “nothing is overlooked except the sea”. Family-owned, the Bellbridge House Hotel team are dedicated to extending a warm welcome and excellent service to guests. Civil Ceremonies can also be held onsite at the Bell bridge House Hotel. After the ceremony, the elegant Crystal Suite can cater for up to 200 guests, whilst more intimate suites can host wedding par ties with a smaller guest list. To find out what they can do to make your wedding day special; why not contact the team today. Simply ask for David McManus or John O’Sullivan and let them guide you through their wedding of ferings and provide you with a wedding show-around at a date suited to you. Their next Wedding Showcase is on Sunday October 9, www.bellbridgehotelclare.comnoon-6pm.Telephone:0657084038 Nothing overlooked ... except the sea
EAN and Elaine Lally are renowned wed ding specialists and co-owners of Hotel Wood stock, they’ve built their legacy on adding that per sonal touch to each and every happily ever after.
Hotel Woodstock is an award-winning wedding venue, nestled in the heart of Co SeanClare.and Elaine have curated bespoke wedding packages that comple ment the uniqueness of their venue. There is truly something for every cou ple, from small intimate weddings, to their most popular ‘Happy Ever After’ package.Yourfirst step across the threshold of Hotel Wood stock is like stepping into a fairy-tale and every step is taken to make your day truly special. The Lally family have built a lega cy on offering a personal touch to each and every happily ever after. They believe that the fin est details create the finest moments, which is why Sean and Elaine are with you every step of the way. The couple will start the day at the steps of the hotel offering a warm welcome to each of your special guests, while overseeing every aspect from start to finish to ensure you have a truly memorable, stressfreeTheday.stunning Liscannor Suite with its magnificent Waterford Crystal Chan deliers is the perfect venue for a truly magical wed ding that will promise you and your guests a day of elegant tradition, sophisti cation and superb food. Situated on the grounds of Woodstock Golf Club there are ample opportu nities to capture stunning memories of your special day.The Hotel is also fully licensed for on-site cere monies, with the option to cater for outdoor cere monies, weather permit ting. Hotel Woodstock has also hosted numerous Blessings, Humanist and Spiritual ceremonies and welcome home celebra tions for couples who got married abroad and want to host less formal gather ings on their return home. However you chose to mark your special day, Ho tel Woodstock is with you every step of the way. If you would like more information or want to book a wedding show around, please contact Elaine at elally@hotel woodstock.ie or call 065 6899800
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Weddings after Covid - making up for lost time bridal party at a recent wedding at Dromoland by Mike Mulcaire
THE way the wedding industry is, there has been no mention of the word Covid ... since Covid. All we know, is that we have been backto-back with weddings, making up for the time when we had no work during the global pandemic. Weddings are back with a bang and couples along with their friends and families are certainly making up for the time they were forced to spend apart. Guest numbers attending weddings have come down but not to the Covid-type wed dings we grew accustomed to attending –the average wedding is now around 120 pax whereas before 2020 it would have been around 180. Yes, you still have some large weddings of up to 250 people but they are not as common as the more intimate ones. People are hearing about weddings being on any and every day of the week - and they are. This is from venues trying to fit in post poned dates and also accommodating new dates that are coming in. I would like to apologies for most of the wedding suppliers out there that are not up their usual speed at getting back to brides –it is just so full on and we are trying to keep our heads above water and do not mean to be not getting back to you as quickly as we normally would ... so we hope that you un derstand.Otherchanges since covid – the disaster with the airports means that any of the brid al party coming in from abroad are asked to make sure they carry their attire on the flight to save them being ‘lost‘ in transit or to end up in a luggage pile up in many of the air ports around the world. People are flying in a day or two earlier to save themselves being stranded with can celled flights so people are becoming more travel aware as it is not as fluid as it was. Couples are really focused on giving peo ple a brilliant get-together as they all know and miss what this feeling is like. Every wed ding is really even more special than it used to be so Covid has made people more aware of what is important to them. +353 (0)65 68 33774 / +353 (0) 86 8220
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3Take It One Step at a Time Put together a wedding planning schedule and do things one by one, in a logical order, so you don’t take on too much too fast and end up with everything snowballing. Do not hire any suppliers before you’ve con firmed your date, don’t put the deposit down on the venue until you see that you celebrant and venue are available – once you get your dress, a lot of the design can flow from this from invites to cakes, flower and decor.
BEST DAY EVER: Another happy couple, Denise & Mark
6Keep your cards close to your chest. This is always something I tell brides whether I am coordinating or styling the wedding. The only time I see a bride upset on the run-up to the wedding is when ‘aunty Mary said I shouldn’t be going with those flowers or that I should have my hair up not down’ or she thinks ‘we should pick a different band to suit everyone’. It has nothing to do with Aunty Mary and she doesn’t mean any harm but once you start talking about the different elements of your wedding to everyone, they will all give their opinion and put doubt on your own decisions.
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8Enjoy it all! Every single second. Don’t get stressed or caught up on silly things – big picture is you are getting married to the love of your life. It will be one of the best days of your life so take it all in and breathe!
2Budget – the dreaded word but it is real and you have to work at this because you do not want to be going in over your head. Work out what are the important parts to you and then cost out what you can spend on each. If things are tight, ways to work around it is to postpone the wedding so you can save more – or have a shorter engagement and see what suppliers are available that would give you a better rate as with the short lead in time they will not fill their date. I often hear advice like ‘get a friend to do the photos’ or ‘do the flow ers/cake/decor yourself’ and this advice is not good. Photos are for life and there is a huge difference between a profession al photographer and a friend doing a snaps. Flowers, cake and décor can only be done last thing and it makes no sense to see a bride setting the room with her bridesmaids the night before when she should be enjoying their company and relaxing before the big day. Include everything into the budget so there are no big surprises – even stamps for invites!
4How many guests to invite. This is a huge factor to the type of venue you have because if you want a Manor/ country house then a lot of these venues do not cater for large weddings. How are you going to decide on your plus ones? If letting everyone have a plus one then your guest list in soaring so think about this wisely.
7Not too many can do this but if you can…… book your venue and church, photographer and band before you get engaged – I know this can not work for some people but a lot of the wedding stress comes the minute you get that ring on your finger because people are asking – have you picked a date yet, where is the venue, what are you going to do etc – so if you have quietly done this already then you are going to really enjoy your en gagement as the pressure is off already.
Engaged but overwhelmed with all that is involved? Don’t be, Clare wedding planner Kate Deegan is on hand to give her expert opinion
1Style of wedding – Hotel weddings remain popular and many hotels now offer various add-ons as they know that couples are looking for a unique wedding. But lots are opting for converting areas such as barns, bespoke country houses, or pubs that have a restaurant and then a night club area for dancing later.
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5Ceremony – again lots of options on this now because there are so many possibilities open to you from Church, civil, humanist, spiritual, non reli gious, semi religious, pagan blessing.
P28 IHAVE always been a stickler about timing at weddings and the last two years have brought time restric tions even more to the forefront of people’s minds. Why is this so important? Because if you are behind on time, a big part of your day (that you are paying a huge amount of money for) is over and you did not get the full benefit. I work on a timetable, starting from the day before with the rehearsal run through and any jobs that need to be done – envelopes and payment should all be taken care of in the lead-in days. I have seen couples on the day of their wedding counting out money for envelopes for suppliers… why? This is eating into your day and the time you should be enjoying. Hair and make up – start early and enjoy the whole morning. A relaxed morning will follow through the day and this comes across to your guests and in your photos. Aim to be at the church just a few minutes early – yes it is tradition for the bride to be late but remember, it will take time to get into the car, get photos, time to get there and then get ting out of the car, bridal party photos outside of the church, and lining up to walk down the aisle – it is a very ex citing but nervy part of the day so to keep a calm party, leave on time.
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I often have suppliers or members of the family and bridal party ask why I am not at every wedding to keep the day seamlessly ticking away. They tell me different situations of how stressed they were and wished they had been more organised and relaxed to enjoy it. This is not a sales pitch for me and my services but it is definitely some thing for every couple to think about people like me and what we do. It is one (very special) day and you are putting a huge amount into it - you certainly want the very most from it. If you are building a house you would get someone to help you with this who knows what they are doing and this is the same thing. And if you don’t want to invest in a wedding planner then you should defi nitely put thought into the timing and planning of the day before it arrives and have an organised family mem ber help with the flow of the day. The bride should not be concerned about time but in the same regard it should be flowing along nicely for them as you can’t make back that time. (0) 86 8220
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Greeting guests after the Mass make sure you stay on schedule as you want to get back for the drinks reception and to not be searching out family member for photos. Again this should all be built into the timetable so the family know when they are needed for photos. I often find family hanging around in the morning when they are not needed and then when it comes to the photos they are off checking into the room or feeding a child. After the meal – speeches are wonderful but a lot of times people go on and go with waffle and again it eats into the night. Best men especially should know that short and sincere is the best type of speech and not trying to entertain everyone with stories only a few can relate to. Long drawn out speeches eat into the dancing time. Speaking of dancing time – where possible see if the band can set up be fore the meal - it saves a huge chunk of time. Yes you still need the break after the meal where guests have a breather and freshen up but when this can go on for 40-60 mins it is too long. I’ve often seen bands only being able to play for 60-90 minutes and it can be easily prevented if you are organised.
Pauline Cassidy, Wedding Coordinator on 061 368161 or email weddingdy@theinnatdromoland.ie.pauline.cassiFormoreinformationonourofferingvisitwww.theinnatdromoland.ie PICTURED: The bridal garden at The Inn At Dromoland Your perfect day at The Inn at Dromoland Plan Your Wedding Day Voted as Wedding Dates 'Top Rated Wedding Venue in Co. Clare for 2021' , Book your Dream Wedding at the Inn at Dromoland now! ALL-INCLUSIVE PACKAGES STARTING FROM €60 PER PERSON Call Today and Arrange a Show Around with your Dedicated Wedding Co-Ordinator Pauline At The Inn at Dromoland Newmarket on Fergus, Co. Clare. - (P): 061-368161 - (E): info@theinnatdromoland.ie - (W): www.theinnatdromoland.ie
The Ballyhannon Suite is ele gantly dressed with Ivory Drapes and both packages include room décor with well-known local supplier, Ri Weddings & Events. A wide array of table centrepiec es, along with chair covers or Chivari Chairs with silk or or ganza bows complete the perfect wedding day look. Couples can also enjoy the majestic backdrop of Dromo land Castle and Lough for those all-important wedding day shots, exclusive for their Bridal Parties. The Ballroom also bene fits from its own Private Garden, which may also be used for ar rival receptions or outside Civil Ceremonies.TheInnat Dromoland has been approved by The Regis trar’s Office as a suitable venue to accommodate civil ceremo nies with both indoor and out door options available. Our wonderful all-inclusive packages start from €60pp and we still have some limited avail ability for 2023 and 2024 dates. To arrange a wedding consul tation and viewing of the ho tel please call
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NESTLED on the 450 acre Dromo land Estate and overlooking the panoramic Shan non Estuary, The Inn at Dromo land is the ideal venue for your Wedding Day Celebrations. Part of the Dromoland Castle family, Wedding Couples can expect the very highest levels of hospitality and service. From lavish arrival receptions, to the highest quality menus which are locally sourced, the award winning hotel aims to ex ceed every expectation, with the renowned service for which the hotel has long been known.
P31 AWEDDING checklist can be daunting, making sure you get everything right from your dress, bridesmaids, flowers, a suit for the groom – and that’s be fore we even consider the dreaded seating plan! However, for some people pre paring for their big day, one some times overlooked (but very import ant) thing to remember is that your wedding photos will be on the walls of your home for years to come. This is why it’s important to look your very best when you smile in those crucial wedding shots. If there’s something about your smile you’re not happy about and it’s bothering you a little more than usual as you approach your big day, now is the time to contact your orthodontist.Thetreatment time at Ennis Orthodontic Practice can be from 9-16 months, depending on the difficulty of the case, during which time Dr Jeeves will regularly see the patient to ensure a smooth progression.Orthodontic treatment for brides, grooms or anyone from the wed ding party!
However if time isn’t on your side, Invisalign is a brilliant option to consider for brides or grooms to be, with the added bonus of being able to pop your aligner out for your wedding day but you get the ben efit of the improvement up to that point. We could also design the ini tial phase of treatment to deal with the most obvious issue. Invisalign clear aligners are custom-made for your teeth, are wire free and allow you to continue your daily routine and wedding plans with minimum fuss and more comfort. Ennis Or thodontic Practice are Invisalign accredited specialists, listed in the top 10 in the country, and can pro duce results as effective as a tradi tional fixed brace.
Invisalign® clear aligners are made of smooth, removable SmartTrack plastic material that’s virtually invisible, allowing you to smile with confidence. They are re movable and virtually invisible.
The Duringtreatmentthein-depth consultation at Ennis Orthodontic Practice they will take a scan of your teeth and digitise them - no more moulds of your teeth with trays and gunk! Jeeves will then plan your treat ment and explain the path (they can even show you a simulated result). Once you have decided to proceed they order custom-made clear aligners depending on your needs and time of treatment. It’s possible to take them out for a spe cial event (such as your wedding day), which makes them a very popular choice for those preparing for a wedding. Dr Jeeves explains that ‘teeth straightening treatment is becom ing more popular ahead of wed ding days, not only for the bride and groom but mums and dads too!! It’s also never too late, we can always start to improve your smile and complete the transformation following the big day’. That’s the level of flexibility and customisa tion that Jeeves and Ennis Ortho dontic Practice can provide. They have been doing so since 2004you should see their gallery of hap py wedding day smiles! Start your journey by booking a consultation with Dr Jeeves, call Ennis Orthodontic Practice on 065 686 0001.
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For a truly magical and unique venue for your Wedding, Civil Ceremony or Civil Partnership, look no further than the fam ily owned and managed 4-star Temple Gate Hotel in Ennis. The Great Hall at the Temple Gate Hotel is the space where you will celebrate your special occasion. Originally built as a church in 1886 the Great Hall still retains many of its original features in cluding stained glass windows, vaulted ceiling with oak beams and hand painted batiks. The Temple Gate Hotel has a fantastic reputation for fine food. Hosting one wedding per day, you and your guests are guaran teed a memorable occasion with delicious AA Rosette award win ning food. Expertly prepared to ensure you have the quality of food you expect on your Wed dingTheDay.Temple Gate Hotel of fers a range of carefully selected wedding packages starting from €55.95 per person, which in cludes a Champagne red carpet arrival for the bridal party, punch or mulled wine reception for all your wedding guests, chair cov ers and sashes, floral centrepiece displays and personalised menu cards. Also included is a choice of a 5-course menu including specially selected house wines and an evening buffet. Reduced accommodation rates are avail able for your guests and a roman tic candlelit dinner for two for the bride and groom in Legends restaurant on your first anniver sary. Your dedicated wedding planner will be with you every step of the way ensuring every detail of your special day is taken care of to perfection. For further details or to arrange an appoint ment please call 065 682 3300 or email sales@templegatehotel. com or visit www.templegateho tel.com
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John is registered with the HSE which means all legal aspects of his weddings are covered. “I can carry out the legal part on the day without the need for a registry office and couples find this point veryLimitedimportant.”dates are available in 2022 and John is taking bookings for 2023 and 2024; those wishing to enquire must do so three months in advance of their big day.
WHAT SOME OF JOHN’S CLIENTS SAY
Grace and John Day, Cloughan Castle First of all, thank you so much for giving us such a beautiful and heartfelt wed ding ceremony. We are still talking about how much we appreciate you taking the time to personalize it for us. You truly went above and beyond, and now we all can share that wonder ful memory. Our guests thought the ceremony was the highlight of the whole day. Again, thank you so much - we hope you have a great rest of your summer!
LEGAL wedding celebrant John Burns is accepting bookings for 2024, such is the demand for interfaith ceremonies in County Clare. John retired as Deputy Principal at Rice College, Ennis last year following 26 years of service, to follow his vocation for celebrancy. Having qualified as an interfaith minister in 2018, a week later John took the plunge by marrying his part ner Tom Gleeson at The Old Ground Hotel - since which time weddings have become a very integral part of his life. Among recent ceremonies officiated by John include a Star Trek-themed wedding at Dunluce Castle in County Antrim. Closer to home, he has enjoyed joining couples at dramatic backdrops such as Hag’s Head at the Cliffs of Moher, on Fanore Beach, while also working closely with hoteliers across Clare. John explains that interfaith ministery breaks down barri ers, with couples being wel comed “irrespective of their background, religious beliefs or relationship history”. “For example if a girl of the Jewish faith wants to marry a Protestant man, I can meet them to get an understand ing of their requirements and plan the ceremony together. Moreso, now you get people who don’t have a religious belief system and they want a more secular ceremony.”
Noreen and Kieran From our first introduction to John, he was open & friendly & we knew we were in safe hands. Through the process, he guided us to make our ceremony more personal to us. This created a atmospherelovelyon the day as everyone that was there, were familiar with the stories told. He was reassuring if we had an questions in what way to go or what to say. The result being a ceremony that represented us, felt natural & everything said, came from the heart.
John outlines that there are no restrictions as to what the couple can include in their ceremony, which would typ ically include poetry, song, handfasting ceremony, or traditional religious seg ments. “I usually get a little story from the couple’s jour ney into marriage and that’s a light-hearted moment.” He stresses that his role as celebrant is a joyous one which sees him playing a vi tal part in the most import ant day of a couple’s lives. His ceremonies have been described as “dignified, classy but also light-heart ed and very enjoyable”.
ABOVE: John with Noreen & Kieran on their wedding day and (right) helping Grace and John tie the knot
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John explains, “I thought that cap tures what I try to do because it is their special day and for them to enjoy the ceremony itself is very important.”
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Crusheen 2-26 Smith O'Briens 0-13
BRENDAN FOLEY, SMITH O’BRIENS SELECTOR:
REFEREE: Jim Hickey (Cratloe) SIXMILEBRIDGE Frees for: 7 (3/4) Wides: 17 (4/13) Scorer spread: 11 From play: 3-20 Top scorer: Shane Golden (1-04 2f) and KennedyDavid(1-04) Own puckouts won: 25 from 36 (69%)
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“We felt we were hard done by against Wolfe Tones and I think that was a top game against a top level side who will have a say yet in this championship so we took the positives from that into today and we worked the ball well constantly, having runners off the shoulder which resulted in us getting the scores. I'm delighted for the lads because we absolutely killed them in training, the effort they put in was incredible and today they got the reward.
Oisin O’Donnell produced a star performance for Crusheen Photo by Gerard O'Neill
Mills show 'serious character'
JIMMY BROWNE, BROADFORD MANAGER:
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O'Callaghan's Mills 0-18 O'Garney Compiled by Eoin Brennan
Aidan O'Gorman is blocked in his tracks by Oisin Kavanagh and Sean Phelan Photo by Gerard O'Neill
Bridge hand out 'fair lesson'
WHITEGATE Frees for: 10 (4/6) Wides: 16 (7/9) Scorer spread: 8 From play: 0-12 Top scorer: Danny Hynes (0-07 3f 2’65) Bookings: Eoin Patterson (44) Own puckouts won: 24 from 46 (52%)
“We knew coming into today that it was going to be a battle. We are just disappointed that we never got to the level of performance we reached against Inagh/Kilnamo na. It was always going to be a tough group with quality sides in it. Credit to Crusheen though who were pow erful there today. Their leaders especially Cian Dillon caused us huge problems and let's be honest about it, Cian Dillon has marked some of the best hurlers in the country for years with Clare and all that big game experience showed.
“They knew how to manage the game and when we shot within reach they'd slow it down and always came up with the next score."
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Park, Sixmilebridge
REFEREE: Niall Malone (Éire Óg)
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FACTFILE Barry Fitzpatrick soloes away from Paul Burke Photo by Gerard O’Neill
“We’re absolutely delighted, thrilled, to be honest, we put down a hard winter with a lot of soul searching amongst the management team. We came with our best foot forward at the start of the year and I feel we have upped our standards twenty to thirty percent.
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CONOR DOLAN, MILLS MANAGER
O’CALL MILLS Frees For: 8 (5/3) Wides: 7 (3/4) Scores from Play: 3-5 Spread of Scorers: 7 Top Scorer: Colin Crehan (2-1) Own Puck-Outs won: 15 from 31 (48%)
“There’s a group match left which is now critical but fundamentally to lose in that context with vir tually the last puck of the game, especially when there was time to clear it before-hand, is certainly going to be hard to take."
SEAN STACK, SIXMILEBRIDGE SENIOR HURLING MANAGER: “We prepared well, we were taking no chanc es, Whitegate can bring a challenge if you al low that, we went at it intently and we got three points in the first minute, that set the tone. “You have to encourage the young lads and the only way to encourage them is putting them out on the field, there’s no point telling them they are great below at home, they won’t believe you until you give them a jersey...Most of the lads there have five championships in the last seven years. If you stay with the status quo you will finish up going backwards. "I'm lucky enough to have lived through an era where Newmarket dominated the Clare scene but they played with the same 15 for what, 12 years or something. When the boat started leaking then it sunk. Life's experience will teach you a few things."
“The skill level that’s there is fantastic so it’s only upwards that they’re going as they are a fine young team. “By half-time, I thought we were in a very good place at 2-7 to 0-9 and possibly could have had two or three more goals. Every time we got the ball in near the square we looked dangerous. However, in the second half, we just didn’t click and failed to get going at all. “We know there’s massive fight in Broadford and they came right back into us and rattled us at the right time to go two points up. It wasn’t looking good but testament to our lads as there’s serious character there.”
BROADFORD Frees For: 11 (5/6) Wides: 13 (10/3) Scores from Play: 0-14 Spread of Scorers: 8 Top Scorer: Niall O’Farrell (0-7) Own Puck-Outs won: 17 from 21 (81%)
“We have terrific leaders in Cian Dillon and Donal Tu ohy and Oisin O'Donnell is a top player and in my opin ion an inter-county player."
REFEREE: Kevin Corry (Sixmilebridge)
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TERENCE FAHY, WHITEGATE MANAGER: “We got a fair lesson from Sixmilebridge today, we came down to win the match, they were far better than us and we had no answer to them in the second half. We were in a low spot at half time and in fairness to our lads they came out and rallied well in the second half, we got a few scores and left a few behind, same as Sixmilebridge... we just came up against a clin ical, very good Bridge team on the day. “We’ve a championship match in two weeks time that we’ll have to see out our group of five and that is where our focus will be. Of course, we’re in the relegation situation and we’re aware of that and we’ll deal with the fence in front of us”.
KEVIN SHEEHAN, CRUSHEEN MANAGER:
CRUSHEEN: Frees: 10 (5/5) Wides: 11 (5/6) Top scorer: Oisin O'Donnell (1-04), Ross Hayes (1-04 3f) Scores from play: 2-17 Spread of scorers: 8 Puckouts won: 14 from 18 (77%)
SMITH O’BRIENS: Frees: 11 (7/4) Wides: 5 (4/1) Top scorer: Tommy Reddan (0-8) Scores from play: 0-7 Spread of scorers: 6 Puckouts won: 28 from 33 (84%)
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“It has been two years since their last cham pionship victory, probably the 2020 semi-final against Ballyea so it was all about winning by whatever means possible.
“There were aspects at half-time that we felt we hadn’t delivered upon like we know they are capable, but there’s no doubt that in the second half they gave 110%. And even when things went against us in the second half as the Mills were able to keep us at arm’s length for alot of it, the lads never put their heads down... So after all that, it was tough to lose in such a dramatic late manner.
Sixmilebridge 3-26 Whitegate 0-20 Venue: Dr Daly Park, Tulla Compiled by Páraic McMahon
“Okay we lost the battle and obviously the sending off had a big impact on the game but we found it out. People have accused us in the past of not be ing battlers but we did fight it out tonight. We knew that the type of team Newmarket are that if we didn’t front up early, the game would have been over after only 15 minutes with the forwards they have. “We might have been more ahead by the break as we had a number of wides in the second quarter but we were right in it after half-time and got a great goal. However, with the amount of the in juries and a lot of young lads out there, we just ran out of a bit of stream but I dint think the final scoreline was a fair reflection."
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Blues now 'wait and see'
REFEREE: Niall Malone (Éire Óg) NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS Frees For: 9 (4/5) Wides: 9 (2/7) Scores from Play: 0-15 Spread of Scorers: 7 Top Scorer: Colin Ryan (0-7 3f) Own Puck-Outs won: 9 from 21 (43%)
CRATLOE Frees For: 10 (6/4) Wides: 16 (10/6) Scores from play: 2-16 Spread of scorers: 8 Top scorer: Rian Considine (1-07 5f) Own puckouts won: 20 out of 25 (80%) Bookings: None BALLYEA Frees For: 9 (6/3) Wides: 11(8/3) Scores from play: 0-11 Spread of scorers: 6 Top scorer: Niall Deasy (0-04 2f 1’65) Own puckouts won: 25 out of 39 (64%) Bookings: Cathal Doohan (13), Thomas Kelly (32). Red Card: Brandon O’Connell (37)
“It was a battle and I know that this might sound like a silly thing to say when knocked out of the championship but I’m really proud of these fellas. I mean, we played a number of guys tonight that this time last year were playing in an intermediate relegation battle so I’m just so, so proud of them. They’ve worked so hard all year and we had a 19 year old tonight Tommy Walsh making his senior championship debut inside in Cusack Park against Newmarket and I’m so proud.
Cian O'Rourke wins the ball ahead of David Fitzgerald Photo by Gerard O'Neill Newmarket-on-Fergus 0-19 Clonlara 1-10 Venue: Cusack Park, Ennis Compiled by Eoin Brennan
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ROBBIE HOGAN, BALLYEA MANAGER: “We were just flat but I don’t want to take from Cratloe. They played very well. We were well beaten on the day. We were through but there is no good time to lose a game. You want to, at least, be competitive and that’s the disappointing thing about this, we weren’t.
“It went right down to the wire at the end,. Wolfe Tones got two sucker punches on us, I thought we played very well and there was always that danger with Wolfe Tones, Shanagher is a real threat inside, it would take any man to try and stop him. That was always a threat and they got a couple of goals but our lads showed great charac ter to bring it back...Last year a trait we had was any time an opponent got a score or two we came back from it, that’s something that is starting to come into it again which is great”.
RAY DIVINEY, WOLFE TONES MANAGER:
REFEREE: Rory McGann (Newmarket)
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CONOR EARLEY, CRATLOE MANAGER:
WOLFE TONES Frees for: 10 (3/8) Wides: 19 (10/9) Spread of scorers: 6 From play: 3-05 Top scorer: 05&CunninghamAaron(1-02)BillyConnors(0-4f1’65) Own puckouts won: 24 from 32 (75%)
Inagh-Kilnamona 0-21 Wolfe Tones 1-12 Venue: Cusack Park, Ennis Compiled by Páraic McMahon
"We have a good bit of work to do. We have a month now to sort things out. There is a lot on the players plate but so have Cratloe and we won‘t be making excuses about tiredness. It was one of those days and we have to put it behind us now quickly. There is no safety net after this, it is knock out hurling." Ballyea 0-14 Cratloe 2-21 Venue: Dr Daly Park, Tulla Compiled by Seamus Hayes
A hurley breaks off Peter Power as Dylan McMahon keeps him under pressure Photo by Ruth Griffin
SHC TOP SCORER WITH action heating up, it’s also getting exciting in the MD MyClubShop.ie / The Clare Echo top scorer award. Clare teammates Mark Rodgers and Aidan McCarthy are tied in top spot with Pe ter Duggan of Clooney/Quin leading the chasing pack. Though they faced off in a challenge match on Friday, Feakle and Clarecastle's bye this weekend has given the opportunity for sharp shooters to bypass Shane McGrath and Bobby Duggan. RodgersMark (Scariff) 2-30 2. McCarthyAidan mona)(Inagh/Kilna 1-33 DugganPeter Quin)(Clooney/0-29 McGrathShane (Feakle) 1-26 (Cratloe) (Clarecastle) (Ballyea) 0-24 (Éire Óg) 1-21
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Two goals give Cratloe cushion
REFEREE: Rory McGann (Newmarket-on-Fergus)
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DONAL MADDEN, CLONLARA SENIOR HURLING MANAGER:
CLONLARA Frees For: 8 (4/4) Wides: 10 (8/2) Scores from Play: 1-8 Spread of Scorers: 7 Top Scorers: Cathal O’Connell (0-3 2f), Micheál Stritch (1-0) Own Puck-Outs: 17 of 26 (65%) Booking: Cathal O'Connell (two yellows)
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Tones rue missed chances
"We weren’t in the quarter finals before the game, we might be now, we are top of the group. It is great to be through. The first half was very tight, there was very little in it. We struck for two goals before half time and that probably gave us a bit of a cushion. We started well in the second half. We had a lead and they were down to fourteen. We are delighted to be in the quarter finals. We got a couple of injuries, Oige and Rian, hopefully they are not too bad as everyone will be needed."
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INAGH/KILNAM' Frees for: 9 (5/4) Wides: 11 (6/5) Spread of scorers: 8 Scores from play: 0-14 Top scorer: Aidan McCarthy (0-11 7f) Own puckouts won: 20 from 33 (61%)
“We had a lot of wides in the first half which was frustrating for us, they had a lot of wides too but ours seemed to be coming at the wrong time. We told lads to relax in the second half, to try and control the game. We put Aaron Cunnngham in and he got a goal, then we got a second goal to lift us but we just couldn’t finish it out."
Mikey Hawes celebrates scoring a goal Photo by Ruth Griffin
EUGENE CULLINAN, INAGH/KILNAMONA SENIOR HURLING MANAGER:
“It was a great contest. We knew it would be and we also knew that we had to win it so it puts us in a good position now. We’re by no means through [to the quarter-finals] yet, we’ll have to see how the results in the final round go but for the moment, we’re just happy to get the win as any time you win in this championship is a good day. “Everyone stood up I felt. Our defence was extremely solid all the way through but I felt that they really came to the fore late on as did our forwards in that last 15 minutes. I’ve been saying it all along that having both experience and youth is a great mix and our bench made an impact too so overall we’ve got a good squad. “The sending off had a bit of a bearing on the result too perhaps but who knows as it could have been just as much a humdinger for a finish if both sides were at full strength. “Our scoring difference is positive ahead of the final round. We have a bye so we just have to wait and see what happens but we won’t be getting carried away."
TOMÁS RYAN, NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS MANAGER:
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MATT SHANNON, ÉIRE ÓG MANAGER: “If you offered me that ten days, 12 days after the Scariff game I’d have bit your hand off. I’m very happy to be in the quarter-finals. All you can do is concentrate on your performance, win or lose and we said tonight if we get a performance that will take care of everything else and, even when the ball wasn’t bouncing for some lads, we dug in and I’m very proud of them tonight.
“There’s nothing between seven or eight teams on any given day but we gave ourselves a night mare start the first day out... At times the Town ies might have been classed as going down but we didn’t. We fought it back but that was forgotten about and there was a lot of noise in the back ground was saying how bad we were. "Look it, I’ll say, thanks very much to those guys, as it drove us on. They got the spark going again...Fair dues to Clooney, I think that they a really good, coming team. “There will be a lot of sore bodies after that to day – that was fair tense, I thought and there will be lads needing time to recover. The footballers have a game next Saturday ... it’s great to be trying to plan that ahead as opposed to feeling sorry for ourselves this evening and being out of it, so we’ll take that any day of the week”.
Mixed emotions for Kilmaley
Peter Duggan shares his thoughts with Joe Mullins Photo by Gerard O’Neill Kilmaley 1-21 Scariff 1-17 Venue: Dr Daly Park, Tulla Compiled by Páraic McMahon
REFEREE: Chris Maguire (Wolfe Tones) KILMALEY Frees for: 12 (4/8) Wides: 15 (10/5) Spread of scorers: 8 Scores from play: 1-13
ÉIRE ÓG Frees for: 16 Wides: 10 Spread of scorers: 8 From play: 0-10 Top scorer: Danny Russell (0-09 7f 1’65) Bookings: Aaron Fitzgerald Own puck outs won: 16 from 22
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Top scorer: Michael O’Malley (0-08 7f) Bookings: Noel Casey (13), Conor Cleary (41), Own puckouts won: 13 from 21 (62%)
Cian Barron tries to shake off the challenge of Alan O'Flanagan Photo by Gerard O'Neill
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“Senior B is not for us, any senior team playing this competition, we’re looking at going further. There’s not huge merit in contesting that. We’ll see how it goes, we won’t make a decision on that just yet.”
SCARIFF Frees for: 11 (4/7) Wides: 3 (2/1) Spread of scorers: 4 From play: 1-07 Top scorer: Mark Rodgers (1-11 8f 1SC) Bookings: Fergus Madden (13),Éanna O’Brien (51). Own puckouts won: 17 from 37 (46%)
PICTURED: Éanna McMahon goes to claim the ball with Daniel Treacy and Diarmaid Nash closing in Photo by Ruth Griffin
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TOMMY CORBETT, CLOONEY/QUIN MANAGER: “We topped the group, so you have to look at the positives. It was disappointing today. We came here to win, we didn’t come here to lose by a couple of points. Momentum is a positive thing, we wanted to keep on our winning ways but lis ten, we’ll take it. "We have a four-week break now and we can work on a few things and maybe get a few lads back from injury and that kind of stuff, so yeah, we are really looking forward to four weeks time.”
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MARK MCKENNA, SCARIFF MANAGER: "We’d have to be very proud of our lads, we are only in place to progress those hurlers and make them better and the club stronger, I think we achieved some of that in a very tough group. We played Division 2 hurling, they won the Clare Cup, we were up against formidable opposition today, we knew that and we knew what it would take and I think our lads stood up marvellously. You’d have to be very proud, our lads will learn from“Killaloe,it. Whitegate and ourselves are in it (rel egation play-offs), they are intermediate finals in themselves. We said we’d let the boys go away and think about those three matches, go back next weekend and face that challenge. If we come out of that, we will be happy enough.”
01-09-22 pg 38 Éire Óg 0-22 Clooney-Quin 1-15 Venue: Cusack Park, Ennis Compiled by Gerry Quinn
“The free count was 16-6 by our book, which in any man’s language is a bit lobsided. For some reason we just could not get a free. I’m not saying that we didn’t give away frees but I thought they didn’t have to work half as hard as we did for frees... listen, you take it when it comes and hopefully we’ll get a few more the next day.”
CONOR CLANCY, KILMALEY SENIOR HURLING MANAGER: “We’re disappointed that we’re not progressing but delighted that lads rebounded and respond ed to get a result, all we could do was win our own game and we did that, we realise that we didn’t do ourselves justice the last day and that is what cost us. “We knew what we had to do, the last day the nature of our defeat was a huge concern for us, we were only six points down at half-time and we couldn’t get it going, we let ourselves down. All year between Clare Cup and everything else, we’ve been hugely competitive but unfortunately that one bad outing has cost us dearly, that’s on us.“We knew coming down here was going to be difficult, Scariff are more familiar with the pitch than us, we knew they wouldn’t go out of the championship lightly today, they had an oppor tunity to avoid relegation and they were going to fight to the bitter end and they did. We’re de lighted that we fronted up in the last 15 and got the result, it was a good finish to the year, our emotions are mixed, we’re happy we won but dis appointed our hurling year is over.
CLARE SENIOR HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 4
REFEREE: Joe Mullins (Clonlara)
CLOONEY/QUIN Frees for: 9 Wides: 8 Spread of scorers: 5 From play: 0-07 Top scorer: Peter Duggan (0-09 7f) Yellow cards 3, Shane McNamara, Peter DonaghDuggan,O'Sullivan Own puck outs won: 22 from 31
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ALL BUT ONE of the quar ter-finalists in the Clare SFC will be known come the conclusion of action this weekend.InGroup 1, Éire Óg have already sealed their pro gression to the knockout stages and Paul Madden’s charges will look to keep their unbeaten run intact when they face Corofin on Saturday evening (6:30pm) in Cusack Park. At the same time in En nistymon, St Breckan’s and St Joseph’s Miltown clash in a repeat of last year’s quar ter-final. The men from the Spa need a win to cement their place in the knockout stages while Martin Flynn’s Miltown are searching for their first win. Three teams qualify from this group, a win for Breckans or Corof in would seal their passage while a Miltown victory is essential if they are to stay in the Bothhunt.Lissycasey and Cratloe safely guaranteed their quarter-final spot in round two, the two sides face off on Saturday in Cusack Park. There is a lot to play for when Kilmi hil and St Joseph’s Doora/ Barefield clash a day lat er at the same venue, the winner of this will advance to the quarter-final play-off against the third placed team in Group 3. Speaking of Group 3, it’s all to play for. Clondegad currently sit on top spot with two wins, both Ennisty mon and Kilmurry Ibrickane have one win each and need another to advance, if they both win scoring differ ence will be used to deter mine the top three sides in the group to reveal who fin ishes where. Doonbeg cur rently without a win can still make the knockout stages if they prevail against En nistymon.PICTURED: Éire Óg's prolific Philip Talty is closed down by three St Breckan's defenders Patrick Doherty, Aiden Davidson and Alan Sweeney Photo by Gerard O'NeillNew signing Darragh Leahy congratulates goalscorer Tadhg Noonan Photo by Natasha Barton / CDSL
01-09-22pg 39 Siofra Ní Chonaill tries to hold off Maire McGrath Photo by Gerard O'Neill
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THE 'BRIDGE ARE UP SENIORRUNNINGANDSCANHEREFORFULLROUND-UPCAMOGIECLARE’s camogie board have said they issued no statement regard ing the sudden resignation of the senior and junior camogie man agements “because a recruitment process was initiated”. In the past fortnight, circulation was issued to camogie clubs in the county informing them that the search to find new senior and ju nior managements was underway. Conor Dolan and John Car mody were joint managers of the sides, the seniors had to win a rele gation play/off against Offaly to se cure their status having contested the Munster Final with All-Ireland finalists Cork. The Juniors tasted provincial glory but lost out in the All-Ireland semi-final. Dolan and Carmody were joined on their ticket by Éanna Mulvihill, Colm Fitzgerald, Eugene Foudy, Ann Marie McGann and Brendan Foley.Meelick native Dolan who has taken charge of the O’Callaghans Mills senior hurlers along with Fitzgerald following the conclu sion of Clare’s campaigns had been involved for two years as a coach under Ger O’Connell before step ping down. A deadline of August 31st had been set by the County Board for individuals to submit an expres sion of interest but this process was advertised only via clubs. Speaking to The Clare Echo, Clare Camogie PRO Brid Mac Namara outlined that the “same process as has been place for the last seven to eight years” will be followed when it comes to the appointment of the 2023 man agement. “Individuals who wish to submit an expression of inter est can do so by emailing Clare Camogie secretary on or before 31st Aug. A selection panel will meet with those individuals who have expressed an interest and then the panel will make a rec ommendation to the Executive of Clare Camogie. The Executive will bring this recommendation to a full meeting of Clare Camogie Board for ratification”. On reasons behind the depar ture of the outgoing management, the Ruan native stated that their “term was completed”. She said there was no underlying factors behind any of the exits. When questioned why no pub lic statement was issued by the Camogie Board on the exits, Brid said, “There's been no statement because a recruitment process was initiated and circulated to the Camogie Clubs”. The Clare Echo understands that Carmody is in contention for the vacancy. He previously served as senior manager guiding them to a provincial title. He was manager of the Kilmaley senior hurlers when they won the Clare SHC in 2004, spent four seasons in charge of the Crusheen senior hurlers and had a two year term as manager of the Clare U21 Tipperaryhurlers.native, David Sullivan is also understood to be interest ed in the role. He oversaw Scar iff/Ogonnelloe’s provincial senior success in 2021 and this season has been over club hurling and camo gie teams in Offaly and Galway.
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Marie previously participated in the World Transplant Games in Canada 2005, Thai land 2007 and Spain 2017. She has also taken part in the European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Championships in Hungary 2006, Germany 2008, Dublin 2010, Croatia 2012, Poland 2014, Finland 2016 and Italy 2018.She has had two kidney transplant and received her most recent in 1998. At the 11th Games, Marie claimed four medals. She began the week by securing gold in the Golf Doubles with Cabinteely’s Mick Dwyer. She followed this the follow ing day with yet another Gold in the Sin gles Golf event and won her third Gold on Wednesday in the Petanque held at the splendid Blenheim Palace. To top it off, she won silver in the 100m and partook in the ballForthrow.her exploits, Marie was chosen as Best Female Athlete of the Games among the 1000 athletes from 26 countries.
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Greyhounds: Double win for Ballyea Nugents
by MICHAEL MAHER BALLYEA’S Nugent clan had double delight at the kennels in Galway over the weekend.LastSaturday night’s Galway card was head lined by the A2 graded sixth contest over 550 yards with the train hon ours on the night going to Ballyea handler Kieran Nugent who teamed up with his wife Bridget and son Aaron to complete a kennel double in the night. The highlight of the brace came in the A3 grad ed fifth contest as Kieran and Bridget’s Dynamic Diva (Ballymac Best-Dy namic Cool Sky) came from an almost impossible position to run down the pace setting Grangeview Best for a three length success her seventh in all in 28.98. Grangeview Best showed pace to lead form Ballyhale Chloe and Skid Road Joe racing towards the opening bend with the eventual winner back in fifth place. Racing down the back as Grangeview Best set sail for home Dy namic Diva began to real ly motor out wide. From the third bend, Dynamic Diva really cut the lead ers advantage down and sweeping to the front off the home bend drew right away for an impressive vic tory.The Kieran and Aar on Nugent owned Killerk Black noticed up his third career success in this A6 graded contest making all the running to de feat the slightly unlucky Grangeview Gold by two lengths in 29.62. Racing down the back Killerk Black (Ballymac Best-Dy namic Cool Sky) was six lengths clear of Cheetara and Grangeview Gold who was now beginning to mo tor. Out front though the bird had flown as Killerk Black was not for catching. Racing opened with an A8 graded 525 yards contest in which the Carl Maguire of Kilrush owned Wood Ross relished the step up to the four bend trip as he made virtually all the running to defeat Horseleap Violet by three and three quarter lengths in 29.42. Smartly away on the wide outside the son of Ballymac Best and Bills Missletoe was joined briefly by Horseleap Vio let on his inner rounding the opening bend. Turn ing down the back though Wood Ross gradually took control of the contest and tracking well from halfway won easily at the line. Runner up on his last two outings the Mary Grace of Shannon owned Inishodriscol returned to winning ways in race eight in this S5 graded contest as he made all to record a fourth career success by two and a half lengths over Capoola Blue in 19.15. Very smartly away along the rails, the Stephen Mur ray trained winner showed pace to lead by two lengths at the turn. Railing well, Inishodriscol was in con trol turning for home as Capoola Blue gave chase in second place. In race nine, the Jack Browne of Ballyea owned Cascade Phantom nev er saw another rivals in this S8 grade contest as he opened his account at the second time of asking by six lengths over Feed Me McFlurry in 19.00. Very smartly away ahead of Feed Me McFlurry and Dublin Road Lady, the daughter of Droopys Syd ney and Coolavanny Spice led by three lengths at the opening bend . Tracking well as Feed Me McFlurry gave chase the winner was home for all money early in the home straight. As the traps rose for race three in Friday night’s card for this A5 graded contest both Bumblebee Love out wide and Nephin Dubh along the rails were both away smartly with High Heels just in behind the pair as they approached the opening bend. Round ing the bend Nephin Dubh went two lengths clear of his rivals as the Maria Browne of Cree owned Burnpark Twinkle tracked well behind to move into the cat bird seat approach ing halfway. Leaving the back straight Burnpark Twinkle was in command as High Heels tried to go with her but the daugh ter of Pat C Sabbath and Burnpark Leanne held on well to score by a length and a half in 29.25. Having met trouble in running in her two most recent outings, the Ra chel Murray of Sixmile bridge owned Derra Peske made no mistake in this A3 graded 550 yards con test as she proved six and a half lengths too good for Treanmanagh Lad in 30.24. Headed in the opening couple of strides by the eventual runner up Derra Peske (Ballymac Es ke-Palymistyforme) really lengthened her stride on run towards the opening bend to lead round by over two lengths. Racing down the back, the Stephen Mur ray trained lady set sail for home and leaving the back straight.Last Thursday night at Limerick Greyhound Stadium proved to a very enjoyable evening for the Clare contingent, of the 12 races on offer, six of them had winners from the Ban ner County. Sugan Tiny got the show on the road for Anthony and Mark Cu sack, from Cooraclare who landed the spoils in 29.44 for an A5 Graded contest, this was career win num ber five for this daughter of Skywalker Tuco and Sugan Jet, Young James McMa hon made it a double for Cooraclare with Lissatouk Peggy who led from trap to line in 29.50, this career win number four for this daughter of Dorotas Woo Hoo and Lissatouk Lady. There was a quickfire double in race five and six for Michael and Donnacha McNamara from Tulla, Pearls Delight a daugh ter of Magical Bale and Firestorm Ellie notched her fourth career win in a time off 29.57, and the double was completed by Rockalong Sierra who re corded a ninth career vic tory in 29.58, Sierra is a son of Droopys Cain and SuesNextStout.up, the honours went to Michael and Frank Browne from Quin with Irelands Call, a son of Vel vet John Joe and Mine Vel vet, he stopped the clock in 29.52 for career win num berTheseven.final Clare winner of the evening was Loxley for Sixmilebridge’s Sean Stack – a real consistent performer, this son off Laughil Blake and Rallying Way led all the way to cross the line in 28.83 to make it a remarkable 16th career win.
LAHINCH’s Marie O’Connor was named best female athlete at the European Trans plant and Dialysis Games, writes Páraic Mc Mahon.TheGames concluded in Oxford on Sun day and comprised a week of multi-sport competition amongst solid organ transplant recipients and kidney dialysis patients from over 25 countries across Europe, offering a major opportunity to promote the huge ben efits of organ donation and amazing life-sav ing impact of organ transplantation.
GORT GOLF CLUB: President Kevin Mulkerrins’ prize was played for at Gort at the weekend where Gerry Cooney (27) emerged as the winner with 48 points. He won on the back 6 from Ronnie Killeen who also scored 42 points. Gerry Broderick (20) was third wth 47 points followed by Gerard Connors with 45 points Adrian Nolan with 45 points, and Tom Costello with 43. Gavin Lally (4) won the gross with 31 point while the senior’s setion was won by George Larkin with 39 points Mie McNamara had the longert drive while nearest the pin was won by Gerard Connors. The president’s prize to the ladies was won by Maureen Brennan(24) with 42 points. Jane Joyce (16) was second with a similar score fol lowed in third place by Olive Mulcair (27) with 41 points with Marcella Killeen(25), also with 41Hannahpoints. McInerney(8) won the gross with 25 points Maura O’Grady won the pasrt president’s prize while Josie Cummins was nearest the pin with Ann Marie Mulry winning the long drive.
DROMOLAND GOLF CLUB: Diarmuid McMahon won Sunday’s 18 hole stableford competition at Dromoland with 50 points from John Higgins with 48 followed by TonyCotgreave with 45 and Mike Tobin with 44. Seamus Cusack won the gross with 41, Derek McCoy won the 9 hole competition with 23 point from Frank Conway with 21 and Liam Moloney with 18. In the ladies 18 hole stableford Anne Fahy won with 39 points from Derdre Cooney with a similar score and Corina Doyle wit 38 . Leslie O’Flynn won the gross Gabrielle Gilna won the 9 hole compeetition with 20 points from Doro thy wth 19.
First up on this Friday, September 2, are the ladies team who will play Royal County Down in their quarter-final with the match commenc ing at 9.40AM. The winners will progress to the semi-finals which tee off just after noon on Sat urday.On Saturday morning, (September 3), the men’s team play Tandragee in their quarter-fi nal match commencing at 9.40am and the win ners will progress to the semi-finals on Sunday morning.Tohave both Ladies and Men’s Senior Cup teams compete in the All-Ireland Final Series is something that not many clubs have replicated in the Clubpast.officials and members have extended good wishes to team managers, Valerie Hassett & Aedin McCarthy and David Conway and Kyle Cannon, and their panels.
The 11th overseas member guest tournament at Lahinch got underway on Thursday with overseas members and their guests competing for the Ronald J Kent Cup. On Friday, 57 teams took to the fairways to compete for the Ken Venturi Perpetual Trophy The tournament was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, so this year’s gathering took place four years since those involved last met in person.After a busy August, the focus firmly turns to Tramore golf club where the ladies and men’s senior cup panels will compete for All-Ireland glory in their respective competitions.
SHANNON GOLF CLUB: Brendan Foley claimed the honours to win the President’s Prize in Shannon Golf Club over the weekend.
KILRUSH GOLF CLUB: The Talty’s stores sponsored men’s competi tion at Kilrush last Sunday was won by Ronan Doyle (31) with 44 points from Eoin Fitzger ald (15) with a similar score. Tom Buckley (13) was third with 42 points with John Sherin (15) fourth with 41. The category winner were Nevan Prendeville (12) 36 points, Michael Meehan (15) 39 points and Pat Mulcahy (21) 38 points. The West Clare trophies open fourball was won by Kieran O'Brien (Craddockstown) and Frank O'Brien (Castletroy) with 46 points from Thomas Downes and Paul McGibney with 45 Tony Lock and Terry O'Hare also with with fourth spot filled by Darragh Bolton and Mar tin P Brennan with 43. The ladies competition sponsored by Niamh Whelan, Central shoes was won by Loretta Maher (40) with 64 on a countback from Edel Crowley (34). Miriam Saunders (29) was third with 66 followed by Ursula Lineen (27) with 69. Anne Brennan (13) won the gross with 81 while the nines were won by Murial Kiely (32) with 33 and Martina Walsh (24) with 32. The 12 hole winner was Anne McMahon with 24 points.
ENNIS GOLF CLUB: Mary Lenihan(18) won the ladies August sil ver medal at Ennis with 72 nett from Suzanne Deane (17) with a similar score. The bronze medal was won by Mary McMa hon (25) with 64 from Helen Harnett (28) with 69.The overall winner of the 9 hole competition was Bridget Hoey (13) wit 20 points. The divisions were won by Mary Nagle (13) with 19 points, Emer McHale (17) with 18 points and Teresa Felle (20) with 19 points. The winners of the senior ladies competition were Annette Keane, Claire Ruane and Mary McMahon with 38.5 points from Liz Kelly, Ber nie Brooks and Betty O'Reilly with 50 6/7 with third spot filled by Ann White, Loretto Torpey and Mary Kearns with 55 5/6pts The previous week’s winners were Nuala D'Auria, Annette Keane and Alice D'Arcy from Mary McMahon, Vera Burns and Anne Feely.
The senior men’s social group outing was won by John Considine, Sean Fitzpatrick, Don Ryan and Tim Scanlon with 74 points from Pat Mur phy, John Shannon, Sean Ryan and Neil Cre min with a similar score while third spot went to John Kearse, Pat O Reilly, Tommy Heath and Gerry Scanlan..
01-09-22pg 41 by SEAMUS HAYES LAHINCH GOLF CLUB:
EAST CLARE GOLF CLUB: The men’s Thursday open as East Clare was won by Willie Roche 20) with 43 points. Ray Boyce (15) was second with 39 points followed by John McNamara, also with 39 points. In the men’s stableford competition off the white tees John McNamara (17) won with 41 points from Padraig McKeogh(21) with 41 points and Brendan McInerney (20) with 40 points.Theladies golfer of fhe year competition was won by Bred McCarthy who had a point to spare over Margaret Lynch while Rachel Whel an won the gross with 20 points. The ladies Wednesday competition was won byJenny Ryan, Kay Grimes, Mary Stritch, Helen Downey from Connie Mc Kenna, Nancy Starr and Marie Kelly. Last week’s senior men’s competition Brian Torpey, Jim Bradley and Pat McNamara from Jack Manley, Brian Corry and Willie Roche with Nick Ryan, J,J, Barton and Kieran Gibbons. The President’s (T. J. McMamara) prize will be played for this weekend while the mixed scram ble conti nyues on Friday evenings at 5.30p.m.
OUR CUSTOMNEWFITTINGROOMISNOWOPEN l WATCH OUT: Brendan Foley receives the President’s Prize from President Mary Flynn. Photo by Joe Buckley; (left) the Woodstock team who were beaten by Glengariff in the West Munster mixed final last week
Big week for Lahinch, Foley wins President's Prize in Shannon
CLARE CLARECASTLE,LISSANECOUNCILCOUNTYEAST,CO.CLARE
CLARE
Kasterwell Limited Applicant TAKE NOTICE that the abovenamed Applicant Kasterwell Limited of 13-18 City Quay, Dublin, Dublin intends to apply to the District Court at Ennis District Court on the 28 Sep 2022 at 10:30 for the grant of a Licence to use a particular place, to wit: WOODSTOCK HOUSE HOTEL situate at Woodstock House Hotel, Ennis, Ennis, Clare in court area and district aforesaid, for public dancing, in respect of which place a public dancing Licence is at present in force, the Licensee being Kasterwell Limited of 1318 City Quay, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland who consents to this application.
Planning Ref: P22/415. Development Descrip tion: Planning permission to: (a) Close up existing entrance from the R469 regional road. (b) cre ate a new entrance and driveway from the L4114 local road. (c) Construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment sys tem and all associated site Location:works. Monanoe / Fi nanagh, Quin, Co. Clare. Take notice that Joe & Imelda McNamara have lodged significant further information in respect of planning application P22/415. This informa tion and planning appli cation may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Plan ning Authority of Clare County Council, Planning Department, Áras Con tae an Chláir, New Road, Ennis, Co. Clare during its public opening hours. A submission or obser vation in relation to the further information or re vised plans may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee, not lat er than 2 weeks after the receipt of the newspaper notice and site note by the planning authority or in the case of a planning ap plication accompanied by an EIS within 5 weeks of receipt of such notices by the planning authority.
PLANNING42 THURSDAY, SEP 1 2022 PLANNING LICENCE APPLICATIONS
Kasterwell Ltd Applicant TAKE NOTICE that the abovenamed Applicant Kasterwell Ltd of 13-18 City Quay, Dublin, Dublin intends to apply to the Annual Licensing Court to be held at the Court at Ennis District Court on the 28-Sep-2022 at 10:30 for the TRANSFER to the Applicant of the Publican’s Licence (Ordinary) Hotel - BF - 1902 Act (Public Bar) licence attached to the premises at Woodstock House Hotel, Ennis, Ennis, Clare in the court area and district aforesaid. Dated 29 Aug 2022 Signed McMahon O’Brien Tynan Solicitor for Applicant Solicitors, Mill House, Henry Street Limerick To the Garda Superintendent, ContinuesEnnisToEnnis,clarecoco.ie,ToClare,ie,CourtPresenters.Ennis@garda.atEnnisGardaStation,Ennis,V95TR83theFireOfficer,atfireoff@ClareFireStation,Clare,V95CD74theDistrictCourtClerk,DistrictCourtpg43
CLARE FINANAGH,MONANOECOUNCILCOUNTY/QUIN,CO.CLAREFURTHERINFORMATION/REVISEDPLANS
I, John Shannon, wish to apply to the above-named local authority for plan ning permission to con struct a new detached single storey dwelling house, new site entrance, wastewater treatment sys tem, percolation area, well and all ancillary site works at Clifden, Corofin, Co. TheClare.planning application may be inspected or pur chased at a fee not exceed ing the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the office of the planning authority during its public opening hours and that a submis sion or observation in rela tion to the application may be made to the authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee within the 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the au thority of the application.
Permission is sought to partly demolish, alter, ex tend and renovate existing dwelling house, construct detached domestic garage, including all ancillary site works and services at above Applicants:address.Martin & Orla TheMcMahonplanning applica tion may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the planning authority during its public opening hours and a sub mission or observation in relation to the applica tion may be made to the authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the au thority of the application.
CLARE CLIFDEN,COUNCILCOUNTYCOROFIN,CO.CLARE
CLARE CLARECASTLE,BALLYBEG,COUNCILCOUNTYCO.CLARE
PUBLICD:LIC:ENIS:2022:008067NO:ANCHUIRTDUICHETHEDISTRICTCOURTNO.86.3DANCEHALLSACT,1935SECTION8NOTICEOFAPPLICATIONFORAPUBLICDANCINGLICENCE(WITHTHECONSENTOFTHELICENSEEUNDERTHEEXISTINGLICENCE)DISTRICTCOURTAREAOFENNISDISTRICTNO.12
Take notice that Stephen O’Halloran & Orla De vitt intend to apply to the planning authority for permission to construct a new dwelling house and garage complete with a sewage treatment system and ancillary works at the above address. The plan ning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of mak ing a copy, at the offices of the planning authority, Clare County Council, Aras Contae an Chlair, New Road, Ennis during its public opening hours and that a submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee within the period of 5 weeks begin ning on the date of receipt by the planning authority of the application.
Yellow Bay Limited in tend to apply for planning permission for a hous ing development at lands (0.9322 hectares) bounded by Lower Quay and Hol land Drive, Liscannor, Co Clare. The development will consist of:
For permission to con struct a dwelling, domestic garage, bored well, waste water treatment system with soil polishing filter together with all associat ed site development works and Location:services Ballybrack, Clonlara, Co. Clare Take notice that Eoin Ryan has lodged significant fur ther information in respect of the planning application P22/374. This informa tion and planning appli cation may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the office of the Plan ning Authority of Clare County Council, Planning Department, Áras Con tae an Chláir, New Road, Ennis, Co. Clare during its public opening hours. A submission or obser vation in relation to the further information or re vised plans may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee, not lat er than 2 weeks after the receipt of the newspaper notice and site notice by the planning authority or in the case of a planning application accompanied by an EIS within 5 weeks of receipt of such notices by the planning authority.
Planning Ref: P22/374 Development Description:
1. The construction of 15 No residential dwellings comprising 11 No 4 bed detached dwelling hous es, 1 No x 3 bed detached dwelling house, 2 No x 2 Bed and 1 No x 3 Bed ter raced dwelling houses, 2. All associated infra structure and services including 1 No vehicular access point onto Holland Drive, 2 No pedestrian access points onto Low er Quay, parking, light ing, amenity open space, boundary wall, drainage and all ancillary works. The planning applica tion may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority during its pub lic opening hours. A sub mission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the Planning Authority on payment of the prescribed fee, €20, within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the Authority of the applica tion and such submissions or observations will be considered by the Plan ning Authority in making a decision on the appli cation. The Planning Au thority may grant permis sion subject to or without conditions or may refuse to grant permission.
CLARE CLONLARA,BALLYBRACK,COUNCILCOUNTYCO.CLAREFURTHERINFORMATION/REVISEDPLANS
LISCANNOR,COUNCILCOUNTYCO.CLARE
Take notice that Brian & Claire McCarthy intend to apply to the planning authority for permission to convert an existing attic to living accommodation with a first floor gable win dow, install roof windows on the existing roof and carry out alterations to the existing dwelling, along with ancillary works at the above address. The plan ning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of mak ing a copy, at the offices of the planning authority, Clare County Council, Aras Contae an Chlair, New Road, Ennis during its public opening hours and that a submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee within the period of 5 weeks begin ning on the date of receipt by the planning authority of the application.
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CLARE KILKISHEN,CLONBRICK,COUNCILCOUNTYCO.CLARE
Dated 29 Aug 2022 Signed McMahon O’Brien Tynan Solicitor for Applicant Solicitors, Mill House, Henry Street Limerick To the Garda Superintendent, CASE
CLARE LAHINCH,CARROWNTEDAUN,COUNCILCOUNTYCO.CLAREFURTHERINFORMATION/REVISEDPLANS
Planning Ref: P22/467. Development Descrip tion: Planning permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance from public road and all associated site works. Location: Carrowntedaun, Lahinch, Co. Clare. Take notice that Eugene Flanagan has lodged sig nificant further informa tion in respect of planning application P22/467. This information and plan ning application may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of mak ing a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority of Clare County Council, Planning Department, Áras Contae an Chláir, New Road, Ennis, Co. Clare during its public opening hours. A sub mission or observation in relation to the further in formation or revised plans may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the pre scribed fee, not later than 2 weeks after the receipt of the newspaper notice and site note by the planning authority or in the case of a planning application accompanied by an EIS within 5 weeks of receipt of such notices by the planning authority.
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CLARE BAREFIELD,DRUMQUIN,COUNCILCOUNTYENNIS,CO.CLARE
Take notice that Drum quin Construction Ltd intend to apply to Clare County Council for plan ning permission for the construction of 8 addi tional Residential Dwell ing houses at Drumquin, Barefield, Ennis Co Clare. This application seeks Planning Permission for the following: 1) Amendments to pre viously granted planning permission P 21 695. 2) The omission of 3 pre viously granted dwellings. 3) The construction of 5 nr. detached dwellings House Type B 4) The construction of 4 nr. semidetached Dormer bungalows 4 bedroom) House Type C &C1 5) The construction of 2 nr. Semi detached house type A 6) The connection to the Exiting public mains Sew erage and water network and as permitted under P 21 695 7) All associated site boundary walls, gates and 8)fencesAll associated and an cillary site works and ser Thevices planning applica tion may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the planning authority during its public opening hours and that a submission or observation in relation to the applica tion may be made to the authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the au thority of the application.
CLARE CO.CHURCHCOUNCILCOUNTYSTREET,ENNISTYMON,CLAREV95W29T Take notice that John Vaughan intends to apply for permission for devel opment, the development will consist of the installa tion of a fresh milk vend ing machine housed in a garden shed like structure and associated site works at the above address. The planning application maybe inspected or pur chased at a fee not exceed ing the reasonable cost of making a copy at the offic es of the Planning Author ity during its public open ing hours. A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee within the period of 5 weeks begin ning on the date of receipt by the authority of the ap plication.
LICENSINGREVENUED:LIC:ENIS:2022:008068NO:COURTSLICENCENO:LIC-12270LICENCENO:ENP0393ANCHUIRTDUICHETHEDISTRICTCOURT(IRELAND)ACT1833SECTION6INTOXICATINGLIQUORACT,1960SECTION29NOTICEOFAPPLICATIONFORCERTIFICATEOFTRANSFEROFALICENCEDISTRICTCOURTAREAOFENNISDISTRICTNO.12
CASE NO: DISTRICTNOTICEPUBLICTHEAND:LIC:ENIS:2022:007645CHUIRTDUICHEDISTRICTCOURTNO.86.3DANCEHALLSACT,1935OFAPPLICATIONFORAPUBLICDANCINGLICENCECOURTAREAOFENNISDISTRICTNO.12
Derek Gleeson as Nominee TAKEApplicantNOTICE that the above-named Applicant Derek Gleeson as nominee of Seasons Catering Limited of 40 Abbey Street, Ennis, Clare intends to apply to the District Court at Ennis District Court on the 28 Sep 2022 at 10:30 for the grant of an Annual Dance Licence a Licence to use a particular place, to Abbeywit: Bar & Kitchen situate at 40 Abbey Street, Drumcliffe, Ennis, Clare, . in court area and district aforesaid, for public dancing.
OBITUARIES 43THURSDAY, SEP 1 2022 LICENCE APPLICATIONS CASE NO: D:LIC:ENIS:2022:008152 COURTS LICENCE NO: LIC-12018 REVENUE LICENCE NO: ENP0042 AN CHUIRT DUICHE THE DISTRICT COURT LICENSING (IRELAND) ACT 1833 SECTION 6 INTOXICATING LIQUOR ACT, 1960 SECTION 29 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER OF A LICENCE DISTRICT COURT AREA OF ENNIS DISTRICT NO. 12 Ciaran O’Connor Applicant TAKE NOTICE that the above-named Applicant
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CASE NO: DISTRICTNOTICEPUBLICTHEAND:LIC:ENIS:2022:007648CHUIRTDUICHEDISTRICTCOURTNO.86.3DANCEHALLSACT,1935OFAPPLICATIONFORAPUBLICDANCINGLICENCECOURTAREAOFENNISDISTRICTNO.12 Abbey River Investments Limited TAKEApplicantNOTICE that the above-named Applicant Abbey River Investments Limited of 41 Abbey Street, Ennis, Clare intends to apply to the District Court at Ennis District Court on the 28 Sep 2022 at 10:30 for the grant of an Annual Dance Licence a Licence to use a particular place, to Queen’swit: Hotel & Niteclub 41 Abbey Street, Ennis, Co. Clare situate at Abbey Street, Ennis, Clare, . in court area and district aforesaid, for public dancing. Dated this 25 Aug 2022 Signed Hassett Considine LLP Solicitor for Applicant Solicitors, 9 & 10 Carmody Street, Business Park Ennis, Clare To the Garda Superintendent, CourtPresenters.Ennis@garda.ie,at Ennis Garda Station, Ennis, Clare, V95 TR83 To the Fire Officer, at fireoff@clarecoco. ie, Clare Fire Station, Ennis, Clare, V95 ToCD74the Co Council Official, at corporate@ clarecoco.ie, Clare County Council, Ennis, Clare, V95 DXP2 To the District Court Clerk, Ennis District Court
Dated this 25 Aug 2022 Signed Hassett Considine LLP Solicitor for Applicant Solicitors, 9 & 10 Carmody Street, Business Park Ennis, Clare To the Garda Superintendent, CourtPresenters.Ennis@garda.ie,at Ennis Garda Station, Ennis, Clare, V95 TR83
Hassett-Parks, Angela Scariff, Clare Date of Death: Tuesday 23rd August 2022 Moylan (née McGrath), Helena (Lena) DateGalway/ClareofDeath: Saturday 27th August 2022
Finegan (née Cross), Grace Kilkee, Clare Date of Death: Thursday 25th August 2022 Lucey, Con Ballynacally, Clare Date of Death: Thursday 25th August 2022 O’Connell, Robin Meelick, Clare Date of Death: Friday 26th August 2022 Tierney, Paul Ennis, Clare Date of Death: Sunday 14th August 2022 Ciaran O’Connor of Ardcarney, Ruan, Ruan, held at the Court at Ennis District Court on the 28Sep-2022 at 10:30 for the TRANSFER to the Applicant of the Publican’s Licence (7-Day Ordinary) licence attached to the premises at Crusheen, Ennis, Clare in the court area and district aforesaid. Dated 30 Aug 2022 Signed Hassett Considine LLP Solicitor for Applicant Solicitors, 9 & 10 Carmody Street, Business Park Ennis, Clare To the Garda Superintendent, CourtPresenters.Ennis@garda.ie,at Ennis Garda Station, Ennis, Clare, V95 TR83 To the Fire Officer, at fireoff@clarecoco. ie, Clare Fire Station, Ennis, Clare, V95 ToCD74the District Court Clerk, Ennis District Court
Williams, John (J.J.) Connolly, Clare Date of Death: Sunday 28th August 2022 Molloy, Ruth New Quay, Clare Date of Death: Friday 12th August 2022 Sullivan (née Costelloe), Theresa Ennis, Clare Date of Death: Thursday 25th August 2022
CASE NO: D:LIC:ENIS:2022:007646 AN CHUIRT DUICHE THE DISTRICT COURT NO. 86.3 PUBLIC DANCE HALLS ACT, 1935
(IRELAND) ACT 1833 SECTION 6 INTOXICATING LIQUOR ACT, 1960 SECTION 29
To the District Court Clerk, Ennis District Court
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To the Fire Officer, at fireoff@clarecoco. ie, Clare Fire Station, Ennis, Clare, V95 ToCD74the Co Council Official, at corporate@ clarecoco.ie, Clare County Council, Ennis, Clare, V95 DXP2
Clare intends to apply to the Annual Licensing Court to be
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A PUBLIC DANCING LICENCE DISTRICT COURT AREA OF ENNIS DISTRICT NO. 12 Sean O’Driscoll as Nominee TAKEApplicantNOTICE that the above-named Applicant Sean O’Driscoll as nominee of iNua Limerick General Partner Limited of 4th Floor, 11 Anglesea Street, Ballintemple, intendsCork to apply to the District Court at Ennis District Court on the 28 Sep 2022 at 10:30 for the grant of an Annual Dance Licence a Licence to use a particular place, toRadissonwit: Blu Hotel & Spa, Ennis Road, situateLimerickat Ennis Road, Limerick, Clare in court area and district aforesaid, for public dancing. Dated this 25 Aug 2022 Signed Hassett Considine LLP Solicitor for Applicant Solicitors, 9 & 10 Carmody Street, Business Park Ennis, Clare To the Garda Superintendent, CourtPresenters.Ennis@garda.ie,at Ennis Garda Station, Ennis, Clare, V95 TR83 To the Fire Officer, at fireoff@clarecoco. ie, Clare Fire Station, Ennis, Clare, V95 ToCD74the Co Council Official, at corporate@ clarecoco.ie, Clare County Council, Ennis, Clare, V95 DXP2 To the District Court Clerk, Ennis District Court CASE NO: CASE NOT INITIATED COURTS LICENCE NO: LIC-12053 REVENUE LICENCE NO: ENP0088 AN CHUIRT DUICHE THE DISTRICT COURT LICENSING NOTICE APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF LICENCE DISTRICT COURT AREA OF ENNIS DISTRICT NO. 12 Emma McGann Applicant TAKE NOTICE that the above-named Applicant Emma McGann of Bluebell, Kilrush Road, Ennis, Clare intends to apply to the Annual Licensing Court to be held at the Court at Ennis District Court on the 28-Sep-2022 at 10:30 for the TRANSFER to the Applicant of the Publican’s Licence (7-Day Ordinary) licence attached to the premises at 78 Parnell Street, Ennis, Clare in the court area and district aforesaid. Signed Larkin Brophy Gillane Solicitors SolicitorLLP for Applicant The Square, Gort, Galway To the Garda Superintendent, CourtPresenters.Ennis@garda.ie,at Ennis Garda Station, Ennis, Clare, V95 TR83 To the Fire Officer, at fireoff@clarecoco. ie, Clare Fire Station, Ennis, Clare, V95 ToCD74the District Court Clerk, Ennis District Court
TRANSFER OF A
Geoghegan, Michael Shannon, Clare Date of Death: Sunday 28th August 2022 Humphreys (née Tuohy), Eileen Feakle, Clare Date of Death: Tuesday 30th August 2022 McMahon (née McNamara), Margaret Cree, Clare Date of Death: Monday 29th August 2022 Moroney, Flannan Barefield, Clare Date of Death: Monday 29th August 2022 O’Sullivan (née Duijn), Antonia (Toni) Agatha Killaloe, Clare Date of Death: Friday 26th August 2022
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. Number 8 missing . Refs socks different colour . Boots different colour (left) . Crest missing Spot the Difference Can you spot the difference? Spot the 7 differences. The answers will be revealed in next weeks edition. . Number 1 missing on jersey (right) . Tree missing over wall . & symbol missing on jersey (left) 46 QUIZ THURSDAY, SEP 1 2022 The Clare Echo Quiz CLARE & GOLF ANSWERS l QUESTION 9: Dromoland Golf Course was founded in which year? 1.9 2.1892 3.Agoat 4.1896 5.1907 6.TheSouthofIrelandchampionship 7.PaulMcGinley 8.PadraigHarrington 9.1961 10.RiverRine 1 How many 18-hole golf-courses are there in Clare? a. 7 b. 9 c. 11 2 In what year was Lahinch golfcourse founded? a. 1892 b. 1895 c. 1905 3 In 1886, the Fulmar sank north of Kilkee. How many bodies were recovered of the 17 that drowned? a. A donkey b. A horse c. A goat 4 Kilkee golf club was created in which year? a. 1880 b. 1886 c. 1896 5 In what year was the Ennis Golf Club founded? a. 1890 b. 1900 c. 1907 6 Lahinch Golf Course has hosted which national competition since 1895? a. The Irish Open b. The South of Ireland champion c.shipWest Coast Challenge 7 Who hosted the 2019 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open? a. Padraig Harrington b. Graeme McDowell c. Paul McGinley 8 Which famous golfer met with Team Ireland Clare golfers ahead of the 2019 Special Olympics? a. Paul McGinley b. Padraig Harrington c. Graeme McDowell 9 Dromoland Golf Course was founded in which year? a. 1955 b. 1961 c. 1973 10 Which river flows through Dro moland Golf Course? a. River Rine b. The River Fergus c. River Shannon Peadar Derrane from Ennis and Micheál Faherty from Inis Meáin with an Irish speaking group called Caint agus Comhra who meet up regularly at glór Photo by Natasha Barton
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