‘We’re only meeting at funerals’ – Fianna Fáil members seek meetings to bounce ideas
*Clare TD, Cathal Crowe. Photograph: John Mangan FIANNA FÁIL MEMBERS feel there needs to be more meetings of its Comhairle Dáil Ceanntair held.
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Fianna Fáil keep faith in Colleran Molloy, Daly & O’Callaghan to contest local election in Ennis MD
Cllr Tom O’Callaghan, Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy and Cllr Pat Daly. FIANNA FÁIL MEMBERS HAVE KEPT faith with their sitting trio of councillors in the Ennis Municipal District by opting to select them on the ballot paper for next year’s local elections.
Tensions simmer in Shannon over refugee accommodation plan
*Donna Marie O’Neill and Dominic Haugh try to put across different points of view at the meeting. Photograph: Joe Buckley TENSIONS ESCALATED in Shannon on Saturday morning as members of the public gathered for a meeting to discuss plans to accommodate refugees in the town’s industrial estate.
Fianna Fáil eyeing up potential replacements for Cllr Nestor
*Bernard Hanrahan (centre). Photograph: Arthur Ellis FIANNA FÁIL are to begin the hunt for a successor to Cllr Mark Nestor (FF) this coming week.
‘We were promised a centre of excellence, we got a warzone’ – health activists call for change
*A section of Saturday’s crowd reflected through a mirror in Ennis. Photograph: Martin Molloy. PROMISES OF a centre of excellence have instead resulted in “a war zone,” a local health activist has claimed.
‘This isn’t the North Korean state’ – tensions rising in Clare Fianna Fáil as end to Civil War politics looms
*Clare Fianna Fáil PRO Michael McTigue, Micheál Martin & Cllr Cathal Crowe. Photograph: John O’Brien As Civil War politics look to be ending, tensions are rising within Fianna Fáil in Clare as party members have disputed the findings of a survey carried out by the county’s CDC Chairman.