*Cahercon Pier. CAHERCON PIER IS CURRENTLY “UNDER-UTILISED” and the cruise industry has once again been pinpointed by a West Clare elected representative as an avenue to amend this and try bring an economic lift to Kildysart and the surrounding areas.
A COMBINED €7m in funding has been announced for the development of a visitor centre at Holy Island and a maritime training centre and research base for offshore renewables in Kilrush.
Cahercon House. Photograph: Ann Marie Hanrahan CONFUSION surrounds the spending of an allocation of €1.8m for the Clare Maritime Economic Zone (MEZ) project in Cahercon.
*Photograph: Wind Aware Clare. Divine intervention would fail to suffice when it comes to planning applications in West Clare, a county councillor has claimed.
West Clare has the capability to pounce on what is expected to be a dramatically altered cruise industry.
Sustainability of towns and villages must be treated as “high priority” when it comes to the preparatory work on 22 strategic projects in the West Clare Municipal District.
A Clare councillor has hit out at the failure to capitalise on the potential of a South-West Clare pier.
Clare’s longest serving councillor has led the call for the creation of a “mini marina” in Labasheeda.
Locals have expressed their confusion as to how future plans for Cahiracon House can be put in place when the property continues to be in private ownership.
*Cahercon. Photograph: Ann-Marie Hanrahan Cahercon has the potential to be “a world class marine facility”, a meeting in Kilrush has heard.
