ENABLING landowners to cut roadside hedges and ditches is of the highest importance to improve visibility and road safety in rural areas, multiple Clare cllrs have claimed. In what was the last motion of the July meeting of Clare County Council, cllr Conor Ryan (FF) called on the local authority to “enable landowners to maintain …
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*Cllr Joe Garrihy (FG). ELECTED members and senior management of Clare County Council are to receive training to become more aware of misinformation.
CLLR TONY O’Brien (FF) was elected Cathaoirleach of Killaloe MD at the group’s AGM on Wednesday. Outgoing Mayor of the district cllr Pat Burke (FG) handed over the ceremonial chain at a meeting held in the Killaloe-Ballina Family Resource Centre in the East Clare capital. The meeting was attended by the above as well as …
*Photograph: Páraic McMahon. A BULLOCK is closer to a holiday than Broadford is to getting a sewerage scheme, a county councillor has remarked.
*Pictured: Minister James Browne (FF) A MOTION by cllr. Conor Ryan (FG) called on the Wexford minister to extend the timescale allowed for completion of works from the current 13 months to 18 months. At a recent meeting of Clare County Council, the O’Callaghan’s Mills representative also proposed to “further expand the scope of the …
*Cllr Pat Burke, Tánaiste Simon Harris, Joe Cooney TD and Cllr Conor Ryan. PEDESTRIANS and cyclists should be made wear hi-vis jackets or vests “in the interest of public safety,” according to a former Leas Cathaoirleach of Clare County Council.
*Diarmuid Ryan keeps the sliotar from Craig Morgan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. GETTING back in the reckoning was the objective for Clare’s senior hurlers when they travelled to Thurles on Saturday and they are now firmly back in the championship equation as noted by wing back Diarmuid Ryan.
*A formal objection has been lodged by councillors. EAST CLARE councillors have formally objected to plans to extract water from the River Shannon to pipe Dublin’s leaking water network and have received the backing of fellow councillors from across the county for their stance.
ENFORCEMENT is essential for bye-laws on camping and overnight parking in East Clare.
*The Parteen Basin where water will be piped to Dublin. CO CLARE will get no benefit from supplying water to Dublin and surrounding counties as part of a multi-billion proposal, councillors have claimed.