‘Ennis is choked with cars’ – Clare Greens hail transport plan as ‘visionary’
*A proposed outlook of the Clare Rd. ENNIS is choked with traffic and the people of Clare need to get out of their cars, local members of the Green Party have said.
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Further information sought for Custy’s plans to build 55 houses in Ballymaley
*Custy Construction had applied for planning permission for the housing development. PLANS FOR 55 HOUSES to be built at Ballymaley have been halted by Clare County Council.
Environmental effects prompt An Bord Pleanála to admit flaw in planning permission for Ennis Data Centre
*An artist’s impression of the Ennis Data Centre. AN BORD PLEANÁLA has conceded there is a flaw in the planning permission it granted for a €1.2bn data centre campus in Ennis.
Sinn Féin likely to gain seat in Ennis MD
*Tommy Guilfoyle. Photograph: John Mangan ENNIS’ five sitting councillors should be returned with Sinn Féin likely to take one of the two remaining seats in the Ennis Municipal District, a departing councillor has predicted.
Save Ennis Town issue rallying call to protect the town’s future
*John O’Connor addresses the crowd in Ennis. Photograph: John Mangan “TOGETHER WE can Save Ennis Town” was the rallying call issued at a demonstration in the heart of the county town on Saturday afternoon.
Save Ennis Town supporters ‘are bananas’ claims sitting Cllr Colleran Molloy
Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy. Photograph: Joe Buckley A SITTING COUNCILLOR has described candidates associated with Save Ennis Town as “bananas”.
The Electoral Chair: Ennis Municipal District election debate
*Candidates in the Ennis Municipal District who attended The Electoral Chair election debate. POLLING DAY is less than a month away and as part of The Clare Echo’s build-up to the local elections, The Electoral Chair has kicked off election debates in all of the electoral areas.
Green Senator says Ennis Data Centre is not in line with Government policy
*Senator Roisin Garvey. Photograph: Natasha Barton CLARE’S GREEN Senator has said the Ennis Data Centre which was granted approval this week is not in line with government policy.
The Electoral Chair: Sitting Ennis councillors under siege / Sinn Féin poised to capitalise
*Páraic McMahon, Brian Meaney, Kieran Burke and Michelle O’Connell during recording at The Temple Gate Hotel. THERE WAS SO much debate on the Ennis Municipal District episode of The Electoral Chair that we’ve had to split it into two parts.
Objections mount to development of 136 car parking spaces in Waterpark House
*The green area at Waterpark House which will be removed. AN ENNIS councillor who has actively criticised the dearth of parking spaces in the county town has lodged a formal objection to plans to build a car park with 136 spaces.