There are a number of Hotels around Ennis that have their own Leisure facilities including Gyms and 15m to 20m Pools.

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The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.

The second tier of local governance is represented by the town councils — Clare has four in the form of Ennis, Kilrush, Kilkee and Shannon.

Ennis has also written several miniseries for Vertigo, including Goddess ( 1995 – 1996 ), Pride & Joy ( 1997 ), Unknown Soldier ( 1997 ), and Adventures in the Rifle Brigade ( 2001 – 2002 ), as well as eight one-shot War Stories between 2001 and 2003.

Ennis has an annual Bluebonnet festival during the month of April.

Among the buildings she has been active in restoring is the Ennis House in the Hollywood Hills designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Other comics Ennis has written include War Story ( with various artists ) for DC ; The Pro for Image Comics ; The Authority for Wildstorm ; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood ( a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist ), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.

So adding some fantasy superhero narrative, that has always annoyed me a little bit .” Although he has written a number of superhero stories, Ennis has tried to " subvert " the genre as well as he could.

In the 1995 one-shot special Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe, Ennis has the Punisher kill every single superhero and supervillain on Earth.

Ennis has also worked with John Woo on a 5-issue comic book mini-series called Seven Brothers for Virgin Comics.

Ennis is a resolute atheist who has a marked distaste for Christianity.

Ennis has stated that he would " like to see less superheroes "; this desire is reflected in the gritty, realistic tone and the anti-heroic portrayals of both the title character and Nick Fury, who made two guest appearances to the series.

The character has been described as being obsessed with vengeance ; Garth Ennis noted that the character of the Punisher " sees the world in very black and white terms, he solves his problems with utter finality " and that " his response to any problem: when in doubt, hit back hard.

An explosion of talent and publishing has been one of the consequences of free secondary school education introduced in the 1960s, allowing many southern poets ( e. g. Thomas McCarthy, John Ennis, Dennis O ’ Driscoll, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill ) to come to wider notice.

Politically, Ennis has always been considered a Fianna Fáil stronghold.

Ennis has been a center for Irish Traditional Music, and since 1974 has hosted the Fleadh Nua in late May each year, the second largest traditional music festival in Ireland.

Ennis has numerous Football Clubs ( Soccer, GAA & Rugby ) that play in various Leagues from Schoolboys to Senior.

Ennis has many Sports facitities including the Lees Road Sports and Amenity Park ( See Main Article ), The Fair Green which has a Children's Playground and numerous football pitches.

Ennis has been married to Margaret Angela Knight since 1980 and they have three sons, one of which is called Micheal Ennis.

The Institute has four campuses in Limerick City, one in both Thurles and Clonmel in County Tipperary and a regional learning centre in Ennis, County Clare.

Preacher is a comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo ( an imprint of DC Comics ), with painted covers by Glenn Fabry.

The main urban areas are Ennis with a population of 25, 360 and Shannon with 9, 673.

Parts of the county were recognised Gaeltacht areas back in the 1920s with Irish speakers living west of Ennis in Doonbeg, Ennistimon, Carrigahold and Lisdoonvarna.

The Abbott and Costello Show mixed comedy with musical interludes ( by vocalists such as Connie Haines, Ashley Eustis, the Delta Rhythm Boys, Skinnay Ennis, and the Les Baxter Singers ).

Garth Ennis ( Hellblazer ) and Jamie Delano ( Animal Man ) were two other launch authors who went on to great success with Vertigo and elsewhere.

In 1958, Bardwell's school consolidated with nearby Ennis.

In June 2004, Corben joined with Garth Ennis to produce The Punisher: The End, a one-shot title for Marvel published under the MAX imprint as part of Marvel's The End series.

Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involved serious subjects, such as son Theo's experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosby's son Ennis, who was also dyslexic.

For the Scottish, English, and Irish volumes, he worked with the BBC and folklorists Peter Douglas Kennedy, Scots poet Hamish Henderson, and with the Irish folklorist Séamus Ennis, recording among others, Margaret Barry and the songs in Irish of Elizabeth Cronin ; Scots ballad singer Jeannie Robertson ; and Harry Cox of Norfolk, England, and interviewing some of these performers at length about their lives.

Ennis ' run ends with " Rake at the Gates of Hell ", a story which finally brings together the racism storyline, with riots in Mile End, echoing the real-life Brixton and Broadwater Farm riots in London, the revenge attempt of the First of the Fallen, started in " Dangerous Habits ", and the end of John's relationship with Kit Ryan.

Ennis briefly returned to the title in 1998 with " Son of Man ", filling the gaps between Paul Jenkins ' and Warren Ellis ' runs on the title.

John eventually gives into this offer, and the 200th issue shows how Rosacarnis manipulates his reality, making him raise three children with her, in the guise of Kit Ryan, from Garth Ennis ' time on the title, Zed, from Jamie Delano's, and Angie, from the current run, with three different artists, Steve Dillon, Marcelo Frusin and Leonardo Manco each drawing one story, as the past, present and future of the title.

Garth Ennis ( born 16 January 1970 ) is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics ' Punisher franchise.

Ennis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls.

Ennis also contributed the surreal Time Flies ( with artist Philip Bond ), dealing with time travel paradoxes and Nazis.

Several years after leaving, Ennis briefly returned for the five-part Son of Man story with artist John Higgins.

Ennis ' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon.

After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to.

His absence from the Phils ' rotation almost caused a swoon akin to the Quakers ' 1964 collapse, but the underdog Whiz Kids, a collection of young players ( Roberts, Simmons, Richie Ashburn, Del Ennis, Willie Jones, Granny Hamner, etc.

Ennis comedian Mike Nono elaborated the joke in Limerick's Theatre Royal, and the nickname soon took hold, persisting even after the men received full RIC uniforms.

Location work for Father Ted was done mostly in County Clare, including locations at Ennis, Kilfenora, Ennistymon, and Kilnaboy.

Here, he had met an American, Louise Burguelew Ennis, the daughter of a wholesale stationer ; entering a relationship, they were married in Manhattan on 25 November 1868.

It was here that their first child, Harold Ennis Gardner, was born in 1870.

* 1925 – Del Ennis, American baseball player ( d. 1996 )

* 1997 – Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby ( b. 1969 )

* Michael Bentine's Book of Square Holidays M. Bentine & J. Ennis ( 1968 ) Wolfe SBN 72340019 9

The following inductees have also been elected to the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame: Richie Ashburn, Steve Carlton, Robin Roberts, Mike Schmidt, broadcaster Harry Kalas, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Del Ennis, Chuck Klein, Ed Delahanty, Larry Bowa, Tug McGraw, and Dick Allen.

Writer Garth Ennis signing Preacher trade paperbacks during at Midtown Comics | Midtown Comics Downtown in Manhattan.

The original plot and premise of Preacher was spun out of Ennis ' run on Hellblazer, which postulated what would happen if an angel and a demon mated, and the spirit of their offspring ended up in a mortal man.

The title lasted until 1991 and launched the careers of talents such as Garth Ennis, John Smith and Sean Phillips.

* January 16 – Ennis Cosby, comedian Bill Cosby's son ( b. 1969 )

In the village centre are a range of shops, including one of the first-established Superquinn stores, banking facilities and pubs and restaurants, including the Shamrock Lodge on Seamus Ennis Road.

In Ohio County, the extreme eastern end of Elm Grove and the towns of Triadelphia, Valley Grove, and West Liberty are part of the second district, currently represented by Delegates Tim Ennis and Roy Givens, both from Brooke County.

After Gilmore was traded to the San Antonio Spurs for center Dave Corzine, the Bulls employed a high-powered offense centered around Theus, and which soon included guards Quintin Dailey and Ennis Whatley.

In addition to the official control cities of Galveston, Houston, and Dallas, I-45 serves a number of other communities, including La Marque, League City, Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe, Willis, Huntsville, Madisonville, Centerville, Buffalo, Fairfield, Corsicana, and Ennis.

U. S. Highway 287 joins I-45 for from Corsicana, Texas to Ennis, Texas.

The county seat is at Ennis, which also serves as a major regional hub for County Clare.

Among its emergency services, it contains the Ennis Regional Hospital, the HQ of the Clare Divisional Garda, the Clare Fire Brigade and Civil Defence.