Rural areas avoiding Airbnb clampdown ‘really flawed’
*Cllr Cillian Murphy. ALLOWING rural short-term lets to escape new rules in clamping down on Airbnbs has been described as “really flawed” by a West Clare representative.
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Include cost rental units in social housing developments to attack rental costs – Green Cllr Grant
*The matter was debated at the November meeting of Clare County Council. DEMAND for cost rental units to be included in future social housing developments has been voiced by elected representatives in Clare.
HSE CEO to be invited to behind closed doors meeting with Clare councillors
*Bernard Gloster. HSE CEO, Bernard Gloster is to be summoned to an ‘in-camera’ workshop with local elected representatives in Clare.
Ongoing leaks put the people of Doonbeg at ‘breaking point’
*Doonbeg. LEAKS are putting the people of Doonbeg at “breaking point,” a West Clare councillor has claimed.
Ennis to get dialysis unit
*Confirmation of the plans were given at a meeting of the Regional Health Forum. PLANS ARE AFOOT to locate a satellite haemodialysis unit in Ennis.
Use ‘creative thinking’ to link ring road in Kilkee with West Clare Greenway
“CREATIVE THINKING” can see the ring road in Kilkee offer a cycling link between the Cliff Walk and the planned West Clare Greenway, a local representative has affirmed.
Pulling Active Travel from rural Clare ‘utterly discriminatory’
*The pedestrian crossing in Spanish Point was one of the final Active Travel projects in Clare. ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES in West and North Clare have slammed the manner in which Active Travel has been pulled from rural areas as “utterly discriminatory”.
Traffic woes in North Clare gone beyond ‘saturation point’
*A demonstration held in memory of Jerry O’Connor. Photograph: John Mangan ABUNDANCE OF TRAFFIC and recent accidents in North Clare has gone “passed saturation point” with frustration voiced with the ongoing wait for a transport and mobility strategy.
Bid to ban daytrip buses from Cliffs of Moher fails to get backing of North & West Clare councillors
*FILE PIC: Bobby Kerr, Chairman of the Board, Cliffs of Moher Ltd, Leonard Cleary, Director of Tourism with Clare County Council and Geraldine Enright, Cliffs of Moher. Photograph by Eamon Ward. ELECTED representatives in West and North Clare refused to back a motion from a Green Party councillor banning day trip buses from visiting the …
Door not closed to fixing the ‘O’Donnell Directive’ insist Clare’s Oireachtas members
*Limerick TD, Kieran O’Donnell (FG). CLARE TD, Cathal Crowe (FF) has told a special meeting of Clare County Council that the “door is not shut” on overturning a directive issued by a Junior Minister to dezone lands in the county.