CONCERNS for the protected Lesser Horse-Shoe Bat and rodent disturbance have helped stall plans to transform a site containing a dilapidated 19th century psychiatric hospital in Ennis into a large-scale residential scheme. This follows Clare County Council putting on hold plans by Kilkenny firm, Walsh & Sheehan OLE Investments Limited to construct the 171 residential unit scheme as …
*The average PCRS payment for Clare GPs was €351,998. 63 Clare GP practices last year received a total of €22.17m in Primary Care Re-imbursement Service (PCRS) payments from the HSE as overall PCRS payments to GPs nationally reached almost €1bn in 2025.
A 42-YEAR old Co Clare man who has ‘destroyed’ the door area to a primary school by sleeping rough there has been banned from certain parts of Ennis Town Centre including the school and a Catholic Church Cathedral. At Ennis District Court, Judge Fiona Brennan has granted an civil exclusion order against Richard McDermott of no fixed abode from …
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*A computer-generated image of the planned ballroom addition to Donald Trump’s Trump Doonbeg golf resort in west Clare. THE PRESENCE of the rare 2mm snail, the Vertigo Angustior at Trump Doonbeg in Co Clare has resulted in a fresh hurdle being placed in the Trump firm’s plans to build a ballroom for the resort. This follows An Coimisiún Pleanála writing …
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*Ennis Courthouse A JUDGE has jailed a 45 year old father of two for three years and four months after Gardai swooped on a property in east Clare to find over €200,000 worth of cocaine in the boot of a 20 year old BMW car. At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Francis Comerford has imposed a …
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*Martin Downes. A JUDGE has cleared the way for the only man pleading not guilty to the robbery of Carrigaholt Post Office to secure bail.
*Carrigaholt Post Office. Photograph: Tom Micks THREE Clare men who have pleaded guilty to the robbery of a post office in the Carrigaholt are to learn their court fate in November.
*Michael McMahon. A SECOND Clare man has entered a guilty plea in the circuit court to the robbery of a post office in the west Clare village of Carrigaholt in January of this year. At Ennis Circuit Court, Michael McMahon (38) of Plunkett Drive, Kilkishen, has pleaded guilty to robbing Maura McKiernan, the post-mistress at An Post Carrigaholt, …
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Vaughn Bezuidenhout at Ennis Court Warning: The following article contains material some readers may find distressing A JUDGE has jailed a retired industrial engineer for one year for the possession of child abuse images that included two short videos of two babies being sexually abused by an adult male.
A JUDGE has jailed a 19-year old for carrying out a random sexual assault on a female gym-goer who thought she was going to be raped by the adult teenager on a footbridge in Shannon. At Ennis Circuit Court on Tuesday, Judge Francis Comerford has imposed a two year, three month prison term with the …