Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring has announced a €40m grant to aid the Covid-19 response of community and voluntary organisations, charities and social enterprises, with an online closing date of Wednesday, 20th May, 2020, at 5pm.

Responding to its funding crisis, and on foot of the 15 minute sell-out success of its art sale INCOGNITO, it's hoped that a second event will help to raise further much-needed funds for the services they provide for struggling families across Ireland.

Saturday’s €4,041,306 winning ticket was sold in at Talty’s Mace Circle K in Lissycasey it has been confirmed.

A ticket-holder in Co. Clare has scooped last night's €4,041,306 Lotto jackpot.

As the Covid-19 crisis has forced the cancellation of the annual Darkness Into Light event, Pieta are still urging people in Clare and across the country to rise at dawn and “come together while apart.”

Carrigoran House Nursing Home is inviting people to take part in a Facebook talent competition.

Of the many fundraisers organised in aid of the Mid-West’s healthcare frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps the most remarkable is the ‘Garden Hurling Marathon’ run by Mayo hurler and University of Limerick medical student Cathal Freeman, who raised a whopping €62,616 for University Hospital Limerick and the Mid-West Cancer Society.

The Irish Red Cross, North Clare branch, has installed a life-saving defibrillator in Ennistymon which will be available for use in the event of a cardiac emergency.