Consultations will take place between Clare County Council and Irish Water to determine if water fountains can be installed across the county. It comes following a notice of motion from Cllr Mary Howard at the December meeting of the local authority. She requested the putting in of fountains throughout Clare “considering the difficulty presented by …
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*Photograph: Gary Collins Ennis Municipal District will lose a seat and therefore a councillor following May’s local elections, Cllr Mary Howard is not in favour of the changes and feels the people of Clare need more female representatives on the Council. Last month, Cllr Howard was selected alongside Cllr Paul Murphy and Cllr Johnny Flynn …
*Photograph: Gary Collins Alongside sitting Fine Gael councillors, Paul Murphy and Mary Howard in Ennis, Johnny Flynn is anxious to retain his seat on Clare County Council where he hopes to see a twenty four A&E reopened at Ennis General Hospital. First elected to the Council in 2009, Flynn topped the poll in Ennis East …
Two Clare women have been recognised nationally for outstanding volunteer work which has impacted the entire country. Mary Fitzgerald received the Christine Buckley Volunteer of the Year at the Volunteer Ireland Awards over the weekend. In her teens, she was moved by the pictures on television of the street children in India and she travelled …
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Fine Gael have opted for a three candidate strategy in both Ennis and Killaloe for the 2019 local elections while at present they have one expression of interest to represent the party in Ennistymon. On Monday night, Cllr Bill Slattery was declared as the party’s sole candidate in the Ennistymon Municipal District. The Lahinch man …
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*Photograph: Patrick Comerford Co Clare is suffering from both rural and urban decline, members of the Rural Development SPC have said. Cathaoirleach of the SPC, Cllr Pat Hayes briefed members on a proposed pilot for rural social housing and regenerated derelict sites at a meeting in Hotel Woodstock recently. “There is a big question being …
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A request to set up an Ennis District policing subcommittee under the Clare Joint Policing Committee (JPC) due to the rate of crime in the town was rejected this week. Cllr Johnny Flynn proposed at the November meeting of the Ennis Municipal District that the subcommittee be established within the structure of the JPC. “The …
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Kilkee have set the way and now Ennis wants to follow according to councillors in the town who want to discourage the use of plastics. Mayor of Ennis, Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy at the November meeting of the Ennis Municipal District expressed her desire for the town “to emulate the efforts of Kilkee & Westport …
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A weekly school of music in honour of acclaimed fiddle player Tommy Peoples could be held in Clare in the near future. Ennis councillor, Pat Daly has proposed that the town’s municipal district “investigate the possibility of arranging a Spring or Autumn School to be held in Ennis similar to the Willie Clancy Summer School …
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GDPR rules will make it more difficult to install CCTV at the location of a recent vandal attack in Ennis. Last month, a World War 1 memorial at the Ennis Peace Park was vandalised in an anonymous and unexpected attack leading to a motion from Cllr Mary Howard at the Ennis Municipal District’s November meeting, …
