Research centres and clusters from across the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS) and Munster Technological University (MTU), namely the Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre, the Circular Bioeconomy Cluster South-West, CircBio Research Group the LIFE Health and Biosciences Research Institute and the Irish Bioeconomy Foundation (IBF), are hosting a number of events as part of Bioeconomy Ireland Week.

Primary school pupils in Clare and around Ireland are being challenged to get creative in how they learn and think about Europe through the Blue Star Programme, coordinated by European Movement Ireland. 

A Clare TD has expressed concern at the lack of independent living for many disabled people in Ireland. Today marks the European Independent Living Day...

St Joseph's Secondary School, Tulla, Co. Clare have won the 2021 Model Council of the European Union.

Clare Independent T.D. Michael McNamara has criticised the Government's Mandatory Hotel Quarantine strategy, which he described as "a half-baked exercise in optics" and a "flawed measure" in the context of an unchecked border with Northern Ireland and when the majority of persons arriving in the state whether by air, sea or over land are not tested for variants of Covid-19. 

Major change can always be subject to glitches, and the current delays being experienced by hauliers and freight forwarders in transporting goods from Ireland to the United Kingdom, while linked to issues with technology, can also be partly laid at the doors of some exporters and importers who don’t have the systems in place for trading with the UK as a third country.

Clare Independent TD Michael McNamara is warning of "a precipitous drop" in the prices of cattle and milk in a few weeks’ time if a Brexit trade deal is not done.

The European Journalism Centre (EJC), in partnership with the Facebook Journalism Project (FJP), has confirmed that 68 more news organisations and freelance journalists will receive grants through Wave 2 of the European Journalism COVID-19 Support Fund.