EFFORTS to boost festive shopping trade in Ennis commence this Thursday with the annual switching on of the Christmas lights, a six-week suspension of work on the Ennis Public Realm Enhancement Scheme and the provision of free parking throughout the town.
*Chief Executive Pat Dowling and Director of Economic Development, Carmel Kirby. Photograph: John O’Neill. AN INTERIM Chief Executive of Clare County Council is to be appointed at the beginning of December.
*Photograph: Arthur Ellis ECO-experts employed by US President elect, Donald Trump’s Trump Doonbeg golf resort in flew over 200 resort soil sub-samples for analysis to the UK this year as part of a survey for the tiny 2mm protected snail at the resort, the Vertigo Angustior.
*Cllr Joe Killeen. RURAL IRELAND residents need to receive “generous grants” for electric vehicles and solar panels, a North Clare councillor has argued.
NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS’ continued fight to get a GP service back to the village was referenced at Monday’s meeting of Clare County Council.
*The Shannon Shamrock. FOURTEEN years after the Shannon Shamrock in Bunratty closed its doors, the site is still sitting empty, with no clear plan for future development.
Persons in the photo left to right Éanna Byrt, Curator/Gallery Coordinator. Eóin Madigan, Madigan Traditional Masonry. Matthew Mitchell, Board member CONSERVATION work funded by The Heritage Council at the Courthouse Gallery and Studios has been completed in Ennistymon.
*Chief Executive of Clare County Council, Pat Dowling, An Taoiseach Simon Harris (FG) and Mayor of the Ennis MD, Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy (FF). Photograph: Eamon Ward. CLARE’S new state of the art county library was officially opened by An Taoiseach Simon Harris (FG) on Friday.
*An aerial shot of UL. PLANS for Clare County Council and the University of Limerick to build Europe’s first university town have been shelved.
VISITORS to the Cliffs of Moher engaged in reckless behaviour while some sections are dangerous for the large volumes of the public using the trail, an inspection has found.
