*Shannon Estuary CLARE County Council, together with Kerry County Council and Limerick City and County Council, have launched a new interactive story map celebrating one of Ireland’s most important and biodiverse rich landscapes, the Shannon Estuary. Designed to support education, awareness and public engagement, the map is targeted at local schools and communities living along the …
CLARE County Council has been allocated €894,122 to cover a substantial portion of the unplanned costs it incurred during last year’s severe winter weather, according to figures released to Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Cooney. The funding confirmation came in a written parliamentary reply from James Browne, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, who …
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*Cllr Antoinette Baker Bashua (FF). Photograph: Éamon Ward CLARE Council members are calling on the Department of Education to review and amend Special Needs Assistants’ (SNA) Health & Safety Leave entitlements. At the Clare County Council January meeting on Monday, Cllr Antoinette Baker Bashua (FF) called a motion ensuring SNAs’ full parity with teachers, asking for SNAs …
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CLARE County Council has announced its intention to introduce permanent partial pedestrianisation of O’Connell Street, Ennis, set to commence on March 2, 2026. This proposal comes in response to significant public engagement, with almost 90% of participants in a recent survey expressing support for pedestrianisation measures. The proposed change aims to support a vibrant and …
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*Photograph: Arthur Ellis. INVESTMENT will be needed in West Clare to give the country a strong international impression when The Irish Open takes place in Doonbeg next September, the Minister for Sport has said.
PR disasters have been far too common in Killaloe in 2025, the latest seeing the installation of a seat facing the road as opposed to the shores of Lough Derg at Ballycuggeran.
FUNDING to provide Active Travel staff in Clare to the end of 2030 has been approved by the Department of Transport.
*Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan (FG). Photograph: Joe Buckley OIREACHTAS members in the Mid-West need to move away from ‘four-cross roads politics’ and stop volunteering sites for a new hospital, the region’s only Minister has said.
*John Nally, Moira McMahon, Bob Enright, Kathleen McMahon, Ruth Enright, Ellen Curley, Mary Murphy and Cllr Pat O’Gorman (FF). Photograph: Joe Buckley. RESIDENTS of Drumline are clashing with Clare County Council and have taken their case to An Coimisiún Pleanála.
*Cllr Shane Talty (FF) right had raised concerns with DAC representations as far back as April of this year. Photograph: Eamon Ward. IT HAS taken Clare’s councillors seven months to reach agreement over proposed appointments to the Clare Tourism Development DAC while further time has been sought to finalise who sits on the Kilrush Amenity …