Entries open for Clare Business Excellence Awards 2025
*Photograph: Mike Mulcaire. CLARE’s premium ceremony for business in the county, The Clare Business Excellence Awards have been launched.
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Council take wide berth on request to widen road leading to Knockanean NS
*Knockanean NS. WORKS to widen the road on the approach to Knockanean National School will cost in excess of €450,000, a senior engineer in the Ennis Municipal District has flagged.
‘Stop with the nonsense & work on the projects Ennis needs’ – Guilfoyle hits out at transport plan
*Cllr Tommy Guilfoyle (SF). “STOP with the nonsense” and work on the projects that the county town needs was the message issued to the top table of the Ennis Municipal District by Cllr Tommy Guilfoyle (SF).
‘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.
‘Staying stuck in traffic means staying stuck in the past’ warn Better Ennis
*Traffic on the Mill Rd. BETTER ENNIS have said the county town will remain “stuck in the past” if changes as outlined in the draft Ennis local transport plan are not endorsed.
‘The Council want to rip up roads’ – Flynn says Ennis transport plan is anti-car
*Johnny Flynn. Photograph: Eamon Ward A FORMER two-time Mayor of Ennis has launched a strong criticism of the draft Ennis local transport plan describing it as “anti-car” while warning Clare County Council could undermine public confidence in its planning system.
730 people sign petition opposing one-way system for Mill Rd
A PETITION opposed to the potential of making the Mill Rd a one-way traffic system has amassed 730 signatures within a week.
Councillors stopped from having vote on Ennis transport plan with Mayor Howard coming under fire in first meeting
*Cllr Mary Howard (FG). Photograph: John O’Neill. CALLS to have a vote seeking commitments for the Ennis transport plan were denied at a fiery meeting of the Ennis Municipal District leading to accusations of bringing the local authority into disrepute.
Reference to paused Ennis 2040 projects to be removed from transport plan
*Harvey’s Quay. REFERENCES to paused contentious aspects of the Ennis 2040 strategy will be removed from the final version of the Ennis local transport plan.
Frustration building as Govt failed to put full steam behind rail works in Ballycar & Crusheen
FRUSTRATION has been voiced by a Clare TD on the lack of focus placed on progressing flood relief works at Ballycar and on reopening Crusheen railway station, both of which are situated on the Ennis to Limerick rail line.