Taoiseach Enda Kenny will officially open the new exhibition at Loop Head Lighthouse and launch the 2012 visitor season at the West Clare tourist attraction on Friday, 18 May at 3:30 PM.

The Lodge at Doonbeg, Co Clare has won three prestigious awards at the 2012 Irish Restaurant Awards.

Clare County Council’s 32 Elected Members have unanimously backed a report by the Clare County Manager calling for the Local Authority to be represented on the new Steering Group tasked with determining the most effective organisational structure for a newly independent Shannon Airport.

Clare County Council’s unaudited Annual Financial Statement for 2011 shows that the local authority ended the year with a €47k deficit on a total revenue expenditure of circa €115m, despite a €9.4M reduction in Government funding across Revenue and Capital Accounts.

Ryanair has launched a stinging attack on the Government following the announcement that Shannon Airport is to be separated from the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).

More than 80 tourism and hospitality operators from across Clare will host stands at the Clare Tourism Forum Gala Networking Evening, the County’s foremost annual networking event, in Ennistymon’s Falls Hotel on Tuesday 22 May.

IFA Environment & Rural Affairs Chairman Harold Kingston has called for the introduction of a ‘track and trace’ compliance scheme, which would compel all scrap metal dealers to record the source of the scrap metal received.

Roche Ireland has said today it is too early to assess the impact that the ending of the trials of the drug 'Dalcetrapib' will have on operations at its manufacturing facility in Clarecastle, Co Clare.