*Dermot Hayes gets a kiss from wife Marian. Photograph: Natasha Barton ST PATRICK’S HALL in Corofin was packed to capacity on Saturday for the official launch of ‘The Road That Rises’ the memoir of Clare activist Dermot Hayes.
‘Honest’ John Purcell will be remembered as a hero of the past when PJ Purcell, grand-nephew of John, will act as one of the Grand Marshals at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Ennis.
*Michael McNamara. CLARE TD, Michael McNamara (IND) has said fellow TD Cathal Crowe’s (FF) comments that Independents have the “easiest gig in town” in the current Dáil is wide of the mark and revealed he is not opposed to going into Government with any party if successful at the next General Election.
*Cllr Alan O’Callaghan (FF). Photograph: Eamon Ward BURGLARIES AND THEFTS are rising across Co Clare with the public aiding this level of criminality by keeping doors and windows opened, the Chief Superintendent has said.
Photograph: Fiona McNamara “INTIMIDATING BEHAVIOUR” witnessed in thew town of Ennis is not unique to the county town, the county’s Chief Superintendent has said.
*Deputy Joe Carey. Photograph: Natasha Barton CLARE TD, Joe Carey (FG) has spent the last two nights lying on a trolley at University Hospital Limerick (UHL).
*Photograph: Martin Molloy SAFELY REOPENING the emergency department at Ennis Hospital is a realistic aspiration, Violet-Anne Wynne TD (IND) has maintained while she said the people of West Clare ‘suffer in silence’ when it comes to their fear of health services.
*Scenes from Lisdoonvarna during the 2022 Rás Táilteann. Photograph: Lorraine O’Sullivan CO CLARE will host a stage of the Rás Táilteann for the second year in a row.
*Eoin Hayes in action for Newmarket Celtic. Photograph: Joe Buckley NEWMARKET CELTIC captain Eoin Hayes has said they have been strengthened by the setbacks of last season which saw them lose their titles as Premier Division and Clare Cup titles.
QUIN’S John Wall was an honoured guest at the Irish Cancer Society Research Awards.
