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Spring Draw ~ 25th Anniversary
Spring Draw ~ 25th Anniversary
Tickets available from South West Clare Community Radio T/A RCB at The Community Centre, Kilkee, William’s Hardware; Kilkee, and other local shops.
Garda permit awarded
PRIZES
1st Prize: Lorna Moloney Genealogy voucher – €250
2nd Prize: Kilkee Golf Club 4 Ball voucher – €140
3rd Prize: Hamper courtesy of O’Mara’s Bar Kilkee
4th Prize: Hartmann’s Jewellers Kilrush voucher – €50
5th Prize: Bellbridge Hotel Spanish Point voucher – €50
6th Prize: G Beauty Kilrush voucher – €35
7th Prize: Keating’s Bar & Restaurant voucher Kilbaha – €30
8th Prize: Stella Maris Kilkee voucher – €30
9th Prize: Nolan’s Deli Kilkee voucher – €25
10th Prize: Banner Books Kilrush & Ennistymon voucher – €20
Tickets €5 each

VACANCY Production Assistant
This is a developmental opportunity, no experience necessary. Accredited training will be provided to support your career.
Duties
Assist with production of radio programmes; implement programming schedule; on-air presenting; audio editing; desk operation
Sector: information and communication.
Application Details
Eligibility to participate on CE is generally linked to those who are 21 years or over and in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment for 1 year or more or 18 years and over for certain disadvantaged groups. Your eligibility will have to be verified by the Department.
You can register your interest, details here or you can contact an Employment Personal Advisor (EPA) in your local Intreo Centre.
DOONBEG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
Ref: #CES-2382574
No of positions: 1
Part Time.
Community Employment Programme.
Hours per week: 19.5 hours per week
Community Employment Programme Rates
Closing On: 17 Apr 2025
The Genealogy Show – The tensions and treasons of the Gunpowder Plot the failed coup of 1605.
Producer:Lorna Moloney
Lorna worked as Project Genealogist for George Boole *200 genealogy project for University College Cork and is an excellent researcher for Irish family histories.
Lorna produces and presents the successful show: ‘The Genealogy Radio show’ aired each Thursday at 4p.m. from beautiful Kilkee, Co. Clare at Raidio Corcabaiscinn and Podcasts are available weekly.
Lorna has delivered conference papers at Oxford; Lincoln College: Exploration of the Medieval Gaelic Diet: (2012); seminar papers at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway, ‘The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500’ and papers at Irish Conference of Medievalists on themes of Brian Boru and landscape of East Clare. Lorna has published on medieval themes and on maritime subjects. Her research areas are the MacNamaras and O’Briens of Thomond.
Lorna received her Certificate for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) in Dallas in March 2015.





VACANCY DCD Doonbeg : Assistant Supervisor – Community Employment Project
This role requires the successful candidate to assist the CE Supervisor and Sponsors in ensuring the effective and efficient administration and co-ordination of the human, financial, and material resources of the project.
Principal Duties include but are not limited to:
- Assist the CE Supervisor in the recruitment of new participants
- Assist in the preparation of CE Financial returns (wages, materials & training)
- Assist in the recording and maintenance of CE Paperwork (i.e. attendance records; monitoring & evaluating training needs of participants; progression etc) and updating the Welfare Partners IT system.
- Assist the CE Supervisor in sourcing and costing effective training/development opportunities to meet the training needs identified in a participant’s Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
- Assist in ensuring the CE Project complies with Financial and Programme & Training monitoring requirements as detailed in the CE Financial Guidelines for Sponsors and in the CE Procedures Manual.
- Ability to work under the Chairman/Supervisor’s direction to effectively implement the CE Programme in line with the CE Operational Procedures.
- Oversee the planning and coordination of the daily work schedules for the participants.
- Provide effective supervisory cover in the absence of the CE Supervisor if needed.
- Carry out any other function relevant to the position of Assistance Supervisor as directed by the CE Supervisor/Sponsor.
Requirements:
- Have a reasonable understanding of the role of an Assistant CE Supervisor.
- Have skills related to people management through previous work experience.
- Have good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Have the ability to work effectively in a team environment and the ability to prioritize tasks.
- Experience in office administration.
- Excellent computer skills across a range of programmes, i.e. MS Office.
- Have competent writing and reporting skills.
- Full clean driving licence and own transport.
- CE Assistant Supervisor Rates Apply. Commencing at €526.50 per week on a 3-point scale.
Closing date: 30th May 2025
Birth Months

The RCB Sports Show
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Tune in on Fridays evening at 7pm on 92.5fm – 94.8fm and Internet live stream





Radio Beams – Hillary Gilmore on her art supported by her son Shane.
Hilary was born in Galway and studied art and illustration in Dublin.
In fairness to Hillary she has created illustrations of most of the archeaological sites around Clare.

Community Unity – Tomas, Kateryna, Robbie Brown , Ruth Morrow.
Querrin native Robbie Browne launches a fundraiser at Keanes Bar this Friday, 9th May from 9PM in aid of the old Schoolhouse refurbishment. Meanwhile in the area this Sunday afternoon, 11th May the Querrin Regatta returns to Querrin Pier with races starting at 2:30PM..
Audrey has the Community Diary of Events. Kateryna starts her work experience this week, and steps into the studio to make her radio debut.
Next up, Ruth Morrow , Respiratory Nurse Specialist with the Asthma Society of Ireland sheds light on the illness, offering tips and information for sufferers and carers. Tomás has another in depth review, this week delving into ‘The Rings of Power’ a new series airing on Amazonvideo.

Community Unity featuring Rob Hopkins , and Hilary Gleeson.
To start us off today , Hilary Gleeson is on the line from Kilrush Community Group & Volunteer Expo Kilrush taking place this Saturday the 3rd of May at Kilrush Community Centre From 1 PM to 3 PM, explore exciting opportunities to get involved in the community , featuring amongst others presentations from the Clare Volunteer Centre and the Clare Sports Partnership.


include Emma Karon , Morgan Rohan , Querrin Choir, Crack’d Spoon Dancers between 3pm and 5pm and a talk on a lesser know saint, St. Canera.
Saint Cannera (also known as Conaire or Cainder) was an Irish holy woman who lived in solitude and spiritual exile. Saint Cannera visited Scattery Island while she is mentioned in the Life of St. Senan, where she is described as having had a vision of all the monasteries in Ireland with a tower extending to the heavens, the highest was on Scattery Ireland which led to her to her refuge there. Saint Senan founded the monastic settlement on Scattery Island.
To round up Audrey has this weeks Community Diary of events for the area.
With Teresa Jackson , Audrey Spendlove , Chris Behan.

Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on the death of Pope Francis.
Pope Francis, in his important messages and in the presentation of his Papacy with a unique humility, sought to show in the most striking and moving of ways the extraordinary importance of the spiritual as a powerful source of global ethics in the challenges of contemporary life.
On the vital issues of our time – such as global hunger and poverty, of climate change and justice, of the plight of migrants and indigenous peoples, of the dispossessed, of the fundamental necessity of global peace and diplomacy – Pope Francis’ voice constituted a consistent invocation of a shared humanity that is represented by acknowledgement of the essential dignity of each human person.
For example, in Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ encyclical in 2015, he called upon us all to face the urgent challenge of protecting our common home, to accept the challenge of bringing the whole human family together in cooperative search of a sustainable and integral form of living.
These issues I had the privilege of discussing at length with Pope Francis across our five meetings over the course of his Papacy.
Pope Francis’ last visit to Ireland was as part of the World Meeting of Families in 2018. I was pleased on that occasion to welcome Pope Francis to Áras an Uachtaráin, where we continued the discussions which we had begun upon his Installation in 2013 and in the Vatican in 2017, and subsequently continued in our further discussions there in 2021 and 2023. The warmth and encouragement offered by Pope Francis was greatly valued by Sabina and myself.
During his visit to Ireland, Pope Francis spoke of the scandal of child abuse, including in the Church, and its consequences for victims and families. On such matters, and on others such as attitudes towards women and those of the LGBTQ+ community within the Church, Pope Francis sought to play a positive role. I recall at the end of our meetings he would say as to his work on such issues, ‘it is very difficult’, as he asked for and offered prayers. It is important that the steps he took are built upon as they constitute a source of hope in the years to come.
In paying tribute to Pope Francis’ legacy, may we all reflect on the ethical approach that is necessary to tackle the many vital issues, including the serious danger of what he termed ‘the globalisation of indifference’, to which he drew the attention of office holders and their publics.
There was a warmth to Pope Francis and an abolition of any distance between himself and those with whom he was engaged. In reflecting on his Papacy, I think of Pope Francis’ own words in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti with regard to Francis of Assisi, after whom he chose his name:
Francis felt himself a brother to the sun, the sea and the wind, yet he knew that he was even closer to those of his own flesh. Wherever he went, he sowed seeds of peace and walked alongside the poor, the abandoned, the infirm and the outcast, the least of his brothers and sisters.”
May I express my deepest sympathies to the Apostolic Nuncio, to Archbishop Eamon Martin and all Religious in Ireland, to members of the Catholic faith throughout Ireland and across the world, to all those who will particularly feel his loss in his native Argentina and across South and Central America, and to all those of all faiths and none who were so inspired by his life and work.”