A photo of a south Connemara GAA team was taken over 12 years ago when the Cárna-Caiseal club was at its zenith. A social media depiction of the Cárna-Caiseal team photo of that year now blanks out about half of the faces – two further team members have left since those blank-outs were made. “We are issuing an SOS for our community because it was when we were in the US last autumn that it really hit us,” Cárna-Caiseal club chairman Eamonn Ó Cualáin says. A public meeting organised for Saturday, January 20th, for the Cárna-Caiseal parish of about 1,200 has no political agenda, and the focus will be on solutions, rather than problems, they stress. However, Ó Cualáin and Coyne have high hopes for a plan pioneered by new Údarás na Gaeltachta chief executive Mícheál Ó hÉanaigh for a low-carbon marine innovation park.

Source: The Irish Times January 19, 2018 19:30 UTC