Number of IDA visits to Clare in 2024 almost cut in half
*Clare Technology Park. THE NUMBER of IDA hosted visits by would be foreign direct investors (FDIs) last year almost halved in Clare to 21.
Gardaí drop charges against Kilrush man charged in connection with machete attack on neighbour’s dog
*Two charges against O’Callaghan were withdrawn. GARDAÍ have dropped charges against a man charged in connection with a machete attack on a neighbour’s dog during a disturbance in a Kilrush estate last September.
Gardaí swoop on man home in Clare for family funeral and charge him for indecent assault of sister 40 years ago
GARDAÍ swooped on a 55 year old man while home in Ireland for a family funeral and charged him with the indecent assault of a sister 40 years ago, a court heard.
Ghana native jailed for rape of teenager pleads guilty to three money laundering offences
*A date for sentencing hearing will be set next month. A 28-year old Ennis man convicted last July of the rape of a teenage girl he had befriended online, has pleaded guilty to three money laundering offences.
Ennis man pleads guilty to threatening ‘light up’ hitch hiker
*The threat was made in August. A 30-year old Ennis man has pleaded guilty to threatening a hitch-hiker that he would set him alight after pulling out a plastic bottle full of petrol if he did not pay money for his lift.
Four members of Ennis Doherty family plead guilty to charges arising from major Clare Garda investigation
*Photograph: John Mangan FOUR members of an Ennis family have pleaded guilty to various offences arising from a major investigation by Clare Gardaí.
Leaving Cert student pleads guilty to assaulting man at protest against rumoured new accommodation for asylum seekers in Corofin
*A protest held in Scool, Corofin. Photograph: John Mangan A 19-year old Leaving Cert student has pleaded guilty to the assault causing harm of a man in his sixties at a protest against a rumoured new accommodation centre for asylum seekers in Co Clare last year.
HSE given deadline over planned €25m hospitals for lands at St Flannan’s College
*Teachers at St Flannan’s College where the site is earmarked for. AN BORD PLEANÁLA has given the HSE a deadline of later this month to confirm that there is Uisce Éireann capacity to accommodate its contentious plan for a €25m community hospital on diocesan-owned green space at St Flannan’s college.
Two members of Ennis family plead not guilty to contributing to activities of criminal organisation
*Members of An Garda Síochána and the Armed Support Unit carrying out a raid in Ballymaley in June 2023. TWO MEMBERS of an Ennis family today (Tuesday) denied participating or contributing to the activities of a criminal organisation.
€1.4bn to be spent on Sceirde Rocks off-shore windfarm
*Sceirde Rocks. A TOTAL of €1.4bn is going to be the “significant initial investment” in a planned 450 MW wind-farm with 30 turbines over 1,000 ft high in the Atlantic Ocean off the Co Clare and Co Galway coasts.