*Ennis Hospital. HEALTH activists and politicians in Clare have said it is “inevitable” that a HIQA review will recommend the creation of a second emergency department in the Mid-West region.
*Fianna Fáil General Election candidates, Cathal Crowe TD, Senator Timmy Dooley and Cllr Rita McInerney. FIANNA FÁIL’s General Election candidates in Clare have said the constituencies history of shock results could see the party elect three TDs in the county.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley FIANNA FÁIL is to run three candidates in Clare for the General Election.
*Cllr Rachel Hartigan (FF). Photograph: Arthur Ellis ELECTED TO Clare County Council in June, Cllr Rachel Hartigan (FF) has graduated from the University of Limerick with a Bachelor of Arts in European Studies.
*Joe Carey. TRIBUTES have come in from across the political divide for retiring Clare TD, Joe Carey (FG).
*Sixmilebridge parents. PARENTS OF secondary school students in Shannon are fuming with Bus Éireann and the Department of Education at the dawn of a new school year.
*Rita McInerney reads the 1916 proclamation watched by An Taoiseach Micheal Martin TD. Photograph: Natasha Barton FIANNA FÁIl will finalise its General Election ticket in Clare within the next three weeks.
*Bus Éireann. BUS ÉIREANN have said the safety of children travelling to school on their services is of “paramount importance” while stressing that there will be “sufficient capacity” on the buses.
*Bus Éireann. A CLARE TD has said the wrong part of the county has been chosen for inclusion in a pilot school bus transport scheme while the manner of communication from Bus Éireann has been slammed as “very poor”.
APPROVAL has been given to Clare County Council by the Office of Public Works (OPW) to submit a planning application for the Kilkee flood relief scheme.
