Members of Whitegate Community Council and Clare County Council met on Friday, 19th November, in a socially distanced manner to review and celebrate the conservation works recently completed at the 12th century monastic complex in Clonrush, Whitegate.

Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Malcolm Noonan, joined Virginia Teehan, Chief Executive of The Heritage Council, Maria Walsh, Heritage in Schools Project Manager and Mary Dillon, Community Programmes Manager with Burrenbeo Trust to launch ‘Heritage Keepers’, a new pilot national Place Based Learning and Stewardship initiative.

Clean Coasts announced the winners of the 12th Love Your Coast photography competition during their virtual awards ceremony.

Loop Head Together has announced Wild Loop Head and the Loop Head Nature & Wildlife Monitoring Programme and Loop Head for Nature in Schools which are run in cooperation with Biodiversity Ireland and support from the Community Water Development Fund.

A project which saw over 200 archival terms entered into the Irish language lexicon earlier this year, has now led to those terms being officially recognized by the International Council on Archives.

A new pilot project in Co. Clare to help landowners make a little more space for nature - by creating mini-woodlands, ponds, and orchards on their land.

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.

Two of Clare’s most iconic sites have been selected for consideration to be included in UNESCO’s World Heritage Tentative List for Ireland.