‘You will always be able to come home to your club’ – Breckans remains a beating heart in North Clare
One life one club is how Donie Garrihy phrases it when reflecting on St Breckans celebrating fifty years.
One life one club is how Donie Garrihy phrases it when reflecting on St Breckans celebrating fifty years.
Pat Harrington came to Lisdoonvarna in 1969 when he took up his first teaching appointment at Mary Immaculate secondary school.
This Friday, February 19, is a very special day in the life of St Breckans GAA club.
An air of excitement greeted the beginning of the St Breckans in February 1971, fifty years on enthusiasm still surrounds the club but intertwined with a hope that bigger days are on the horizon.
Popular RTÉ television show Nationwide is to broadcast a special programme about the Burren this Sunday, February 15th.
An East Clare councillor has pleaded for bus shelters to be installed in each town and village across the county.
Parents of special needs students in Clare have said their children have retreated and regressed due to the disruptions to their school routines with one teenager refusing to leave his room for an eleven week period except to go to the bathroom and fill his water bottle.
Failure to install ‘adequate infrastructure’ in Clare’s rural communities will accelerate their demise, local councillors have warned.
Completion of a coastal pathway at Loop Head is seen as “an absolute necessity” to the protection of the area as one councillor criticised how plans have been left sitting “for years”.
€500k has been invested to repair a 2km coastal walk adjacent to the visitor centre at The Cliffs of Moher while a path to recovery for the world renown tourist attraction is underway.