*Páraic McMahon, Tony McMahon, Geraldine Lambert and Joe Melody at The Shannon Springs Hotel. THERE will be a new poll-topper in the Shannon Municipal District for the first time since 2009.
*Clancy Park is now home of an illegal encampment. ENNIS RESIDENTS are “stressed and sleepless in a state of trauma” following the emergence of a new illegal encampment.
*Shannon Airport. ADARE hosting the Ryder Cup in 2027 strengthens the argument to finally get the rail spur to Shannon Airport on track.
*Ollie and Billy Fitzgerald from Clarecastle, County Clare, pictured outside the Golden Vale Farmhouse at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park. Photograph: Brian Arthur A COMPREHENSIVE Easter programme of family-friendly activities and entertainment for all ages have been announced for Bunratty Castle & Folk Park and Craggaunowen.
*John Haugh. NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS based John Haugh (AON) will be Aontú’s first ever Clare candidate.
*The late Patrick Nugent. APPROACHING THE fortieth anniversary of Patrick Nugent’s death, his brothers are hopeful that a new national appeal may prompt persons with information to come forward so that they can put the tragedy behind them “once and for all”.
*Eddie Redmayne. KILRUSH’s links to Oscar winning actor, Eddie Redmayne were uncovered this week with his great-grandfather a former resident of Pella House.
*Protests in Inch garnered national attention. Photograph: John Mangan WITH the year’s end upon us, The Clare Echo goes through the archives to look at the good, the bad and the ugly from 2023.
Kerry farmer Mick Teahan with a Kerry Bog Pony and foal in the Kerry Bog Village. Photo Joe Keogh A NEW INITIATIVE has been launched at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park to preserve and promote awareness of one of Ireland’s rarest breeds of pony.
*The site where a structure for a bandstand had been installed. ALMOST €50,000 has been wasted by Clare County Council on attempts to construct a bandstand in Bunratty.
