Lahinch Golf Club to spend €6.1m on clubhouse redevelopment
*A CGI impression of the new Lahinch Clubhouse. CASH-rich Lahinch Golf Club is set to spend €6.1m on its club-house redevelopment on the back of bumper green fee receipts since Covid-19.
Clean up bill for Roche’s Clarecastle manufacturing site now totals €95.6m
*FILE PIC. Photograph: Martin Connolly THE clean-up bill for Swiss pharma giant, Roche’s former Clarecastle manufacturing site now totals €95.6m in what the company describes as “one of the largest remediation projects of its type in Europe”.
Multi-millionaire farmer JJ McCabe records 2023 profits of €328,740
*JJ McCabe. Photograph: Dermot Hayes. A JOINT venture property firm controlled by colourful, multi-millionaire bachelor farmer, John Joseph (JJ) McCabe last year recorded post tax profits of €328,740.
Lahinch hitchhiker told he would be set alight if he did not pay for lift court hear
*Photograph: John Mangan A 30-year old Ennis man threatened a hitch-hiker that he would set him alight after pulling out a plastic bottle full of petrol if he did not pay money for his lift, it has been alleged in court.
Ennistymon farmer refused planning over pollution fears for Ballymacraven River
*Ballymacraven River. AN BORD PLEANÁLA has refused planning permission to an Ennistymon farmer in a planning row between two North Clare farm households.
‘Our local, human & social values are threatened’ – Fr Bohan among opponents to Lidl’s plans for Sixmilebridge
*Fr Harry Bohan. Photograph: Eamon Ward PROMINENT CLARE priest, Fr Harry Bohan has expressed fears for local retailers in Sixmilebridge in response to plans by German discount giant, Lidl to construct a new store there.
Council stall Clare GAA’s redevelopment plans for Caherlohan
*Caherlohan. CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL has stalled plans by Clare GAA to expand and redevelop the county’s GAA Centre of Excellence due to concerns over the EU protected Lesser Horseshoe Bat.
Government Dept intervenes in Clare GAA’s Caherlohan plans to raise concerns over Lesser Horseshoe Bat
*Photograph: John Mangan A GOVERNMENT department has intervened in plans by Clare GAA to expand and redevelop its Centre of Excellence due to concerns for the EU protected Lesser Horseshoe Bat.
Sixmilebridge retailer says she and her staff now operate ‘under a cloud of fear’ after three armed robberies over 10 day period
*Flora Crowe. A SIXMILEBRIDGE retailer has told a court that she and her staff “now operate under a cloud of fear’” after three armed robberies on her businesses over the space of ten days.
Dermot Kennedy gigs boosts revenues at Thomond Park to €1.56m
Photograph: INPHO/James Crombie INCOME from a string of Dermot Kennedy gigs at Thomond Park last summer helped the firm that operates the Limerick stadium to an increase in revenues to €1.56m.
