Connor & Sarah Donovan wrapped up a very challenging two years by winning a brace of international awards for their small, Clare based business. The Donovans opened Escape Rooms Ennis in 2019, and it was an instant hit with locals and tourists alike. Escape Rooms are challenging puzzle games, played in groups, that emphasise the …
Aldi’s Killaloe store has been awarded Discounter Store of the Year at the prestigious National Grocery Retail Awards for its outstanding customer service, excellence in the provision of high-quality food and superior display.
Clare Echo editor STUART HOLLY delves into the archives to bring you the biggest stories from a year which continued to be dominated by Covid-19 JANUARY BISHOP SORRY OVER KILRUSH NURSERY REPORT Bishop of Killaloe Fintan Monohan issued an apology following the Commission of the Mother & Baby Homes report found that 168 children died …
*Scoil na Mainistreach principal, Fergal Lynch. A NEW unit for children with autism to help integrate pupils into the mainstream classrooms will be officially opened at Scoil na Mainistreach in Quin on January 24.
WITH Christmas upon us, the people of Clare are in reflective mood and with that in mind, The Clare Echo has dug into the archives to bring you the biggest stories of 2021.
A Clare woman has joined the fight against childhood obesity in Ireland and is urging the public to join the Irish Heart Foundation’s ‘Stop Targeting Kids’ drive.
A REMARKABLE business story in the hills of East Clare, Palm Free Irish Soap has defied the odds these past two years by growing their business two-fold – you could say, they’re cleaning up. Such is the recent success of Palm Free that operations have moved from a converted barn at the Hoynes family home …
Palm Free experiences ‘quite incredible’ increase in demand Read More »
IT’S difficult for some to conduct an interview with a potter without mention of ‘that scene’ containing Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore getting steamy at a potter’s wheel in the 1990 hit movie, Ghost. The reference is all the more significant to Hannah Arnup of Ballymorris Pottery in Cratloe, who bore witness to a recreation …
Pottery school and personalised gifts at centre of Ballymorris Pottery Read More »
Collette Casey and Morwenna Kersual of the West Clare Family Resource Centre with a selection of the Christmas Gift Bags being delivered to 160 Over 55s in West Clare. OVER 160 people in West Clare have received Christmas gift bags from the Kilrush based Family Resource Centre.
NUALA O’Brien’s affection for her industry, her locality and rural Ireland are all on tap as she discusses her “bar and restaurant in a little East Clare village” with The Clare Echo. Intended as an article to promote local business, this interview fast becomes a thought-provoking discussion on the pub’s important role in Irish society …
Tuamgraney’s Nuala ‘passionate’ about pub life in rural Ireland Read More »
