Pat Flynn

Clare County Council has announced  a wealth of events are taking place in Clare during National Heritage Week 2022, with more than 70 events registered by heritage groups throughout the county to date.

The artisan crafts and produce of County Clare will be showcased at the Cliffs of Moher Experience as part of a series of daily events running throughout National Heritage Week from Saturday 13th August to Saturday 20th August.

The Killaloe unit of the Irish Coast Guard was tasked this evening to assist three people on board a grounded vessel on Lough Derg.

The National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) has appealed to members of the public to be conscious of the dangers posed by fire and to exercise extreme caution over this high risk period. 

Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow - High Temperature warning for Clare.

World renowned explorer Jim McNeill has chosen Ennis writer and children’s entertainer Anthony Galvin to take part in one of the most important and ambitious polar expeditions of our time; to be the first ever to reach the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility, collecting vital climate change data on route.

Clare Senator Fianna Fáil Senator Timmy Dooley has written to the Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Climate Action Brian Leddin TD to call for the Committee to be reconvened in order to discuss the worsening and precarious energy security of the country.

The expansion of the Covid-19 vaccination programme is being facilitated through the reopening of the vaccination centre at Ennis Hospital.