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Holy Island, off Mountshannon, Lough Derg, Co Clare. Photograph by Eamon Ward Plans submitted for Holy Island visitor centre February 23, 2021 THE eagerly-anticipated project to create a visitor centre in Mountshannon as part of the Inis Cealtra Visitor Experience has reached a major milestone, with plans unveiled to renovate an iconic local building. The project, which is being led by the Tourism Department unit of the local authority, is tipped to be the ‘Jewel of Lough Derg,’ and has lo...

I was one of those people who used cash to avoid every aspect of my life being tracked electronically. That probably speaks to a guilty conscience, but the lazy way we’ve sacrificed privacy for convenience is something we may regret some day. Alas, Covid has crushed us cashless hold-outs. Aristocrats used to wash money and with good reason. It’s filthy. The result is that with food shopping one of the few legal reasons left to leave the house, I often find myself without a €2 coin to rele...

Waterways Ireland outline vision for Clare stretch of Shannon Greenway February 5, 2021 CONSTRUCTION on a section of the proposed Shannon Greenway, which is set link Scariff to Limerick, could begin by 2023, bringing a welcome tourism and business boost to East Clare. An update on the greenway, which will run the length of the Shannon and originate in the Leitrim/Roscommon area, was given by Éanna Rowe, Regional Manager with Waterways Ireland at an active travel briefing last Thursday night, ...