Owen Ryan

SHANNON'S Karl Fitzmaurice finished second in the Big Apple Half Marathon, held in New York on December 14.

ON the other side of the Atlantic, Christmas didn't provide much of a break for Lissycasey's Pat Scanlan, who runs Ned Devine's bar in Yonkers.

THE median property price in Clare was €267,750 in October, according to the Central Statistics Office.

ON Tuesday the Shannon Airport Group revealed its pasenger numbers for 2024 had exceeded 2.1 million, up over 7% on the previous year. It was Shannon’s best performance since 2009, with 33 ro…

ON Gallows Hill in Cratloe, a number of people have been cut off from the wider world since last Saturday evening.

THE Feed Clare foodbank at the Kincora Apartments will be open for the first time in 2025 on Friday morning.

FORMER Clare manager Ger Loughnane praised Brian Lohan at the presentation of the All Ireland medals at the weekend, saying he had to deal with a number of “booby traps” put in his path within the county, after taking on the job.

A NEW group named Gaeilge Le Chéile has been formed and had its first meeting last Sunday. It was formed to give people a chance to speak Irish in a casual, social, non-classroom setting. Gaeilge L…

IN 1831 what may have been the first native-run socialist commune in the world came into existence in Ralahine, Newmarket on Fergus. A subsequent play, The Ralahine Experiment was written by Margaretta Darcy and John Arden well over 40 years ago, and there are plans to revive it, with an initial workshop taking place this weekend.

CONSTRUCTION levels in Ennis are hardly reaching where they were a generation ago, and new figures that indicated a spike in building in Clare last year are misleading.