*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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy. Photograph: Joe Buckley A SITTING COUNCILLOR has described candidates associated with Save Ennis Town as “bananas”.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*Bridget Ginnnity a local election candidate for the Green Party in the Ennis MD using a reverse vending machine. CIVIC sites are expected to be included in phase two of the Deposit Return Scheme.
