The Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat was called into action late last night following reports that a 16ft motorboat with four people on board had lost propulsion after glancing off a rock.
Minister of State with responsibility for Public Health, Well Being and National Drugs Strategy, Frank Feighan TD, visited Killaloe in County Clare today to see at first hand the benefits of Healthy Ireland funding for local and voluntary groups in Clare.
Lough Derg RNLI was called out last evening to assist a family of four on board a 36ft cruiser which was reported to have run aground on the southern side of the Corragheen Islands, in Dromineer Bay.
Clare Fianna Fáil Senator Timmy Dooley has raised the issue of pay restoration for employees in health and social care sector who are employed by community and voluntary organisations in the Seanad.
The late Dr Brendan O’Regan’s legacy to Co Clare lives on, not just through his connection with Shannon Airport and the Shannon Free Zone but in nearby Newmarket-on-Fergus, through Obair.
Over seven thousand people have shown their support to the Save Our Shark campaign calling on Government to afford legal protection to basking sharks in Irish waters.
It has been a long-term objective of Clare County Council to create a world-class Greenway along the route of the old West Clare Railway “from Ennis as far as Kilkee” that, crucially, connects with all of the towns and villages along the way.