SHANNON Airport is now self-sustaining and is not receiving ongoing State support to ease it into independence, according to its chairperson, Rose Hynes.

JEERS and sexual insults were hurled at a woman who went to a Kilrush pub to get water for horses, ponies and donkeys that were standing in the searing heat at the local fair last week.
The woman, who doesn’t want to be named for fear of reprisals, said she “felt very threatened” when she tried to do something to help the animals that she claimed were being ill treated at Kilrush Horse Fair.

Householders in South-East Clare have asked that An Post stamp out its attempts to move Parteen into Limerick by readdressing some local correspondence.

FORTY-five full-time jobs have been created following the opening of the SuperValu supermarket in Miltown Malbay. The 12,500ft2 supermarket represents an investment of €5.5 million by local businessman John Jones, who is the seventh generation of his family in business in the town since the 1830s. The new store is located on the Ennis Road.