33 new social homes provided in €11.2m Scariff & Sixmilebridge developments
Baile Uí Loideáin, Sixmilebridge. Photograph: Rocket Media TWO SOCIAL housing developments with a total approved budget of €11.2m were opened in Scariff and Sixmilebridge.
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Bunratty to host Ireland’s largest Christmas parade
*Photograph: Brian Arthur SANTA CLAUS and members of the All-Ireland winning Clare hurling team will be joined over 350 elves, Christmas characters and musicians in Bunratty village this Thursday night at 6.00pm for Ireland’s largest Christmas parade.
Christmas in Ennis programme sees pause of public realm & provision of free parking
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.
Interim Chief Executive of Council to be appointed next month
*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.
Experts fly over 200 soil samples to UK as part of survey for rare snail at Trump Doonbeg
*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.
Prioritise grants to get more rural Clare residents availing of green measures – Killeen
*Cllr Joe Killeen. RURAL IRELAND residents need to receive “generous grants” for electric vehicles and solar panels, a North Clare councillor has argued.
Locating GP services in the heart of villages ‘becoming more challenging’
NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS’ continued fight to get a GP service back to the village was referenced at Monday’s meeting of Clare County Council.
‘There’s plenty of demand for hotels in Bunratty’ – clarity sought on future plans for Shannon Shamrock
*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.
Conservation works completed at Courthouse Gallery & Studios in Ennistymon
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.
‘A library is infinity under a roof & it doesn’t get more elegant or unique than this roof’ – new €17m county library opens
*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.