*The Green in Newmarket-on-Fergus where the GP practice of Dr Colum Hackett was located. REMOVING GP services from the county’s fifth largest settlement is “unfathomable”, Newmarket-on-Fergus’ sole elected member of Clare County Council has said.
*Cllr Rita McInerney outside the injury unit at Ennis Hospital. Photograph: Eugene McCafferty. A HOST of suitable sites have been put forward by Clare County Council to the HSE as potential locations for a new hospital in the county.
*The M18. 25 road collisions have occurred on the M18 and N18 over the past two months.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley DISCONTENT within Fianna Fáil is expected to come to the surface in Co Clare this week for the AGM of the party’s branch.
*Junior Minister, Timmy Dooley (FF) and Cllr David Griffin (FF). Photograph: Joe Buckley PROBLEMS were evident from the very beginning of the Presidential Election campaign for Fianna Fáil with county councillors in Clare claiming the party has lost its connection with the grassroots.
*Cllr Pat Daly (FF) with Taoiseach Micheál Martin (FF). Photograph: Natasha Barton. FIANNA FÁIL’s Presidential election campaign was “a calamity from start to finish” but the majority of Clare councillors believe a knee-jerk reaction should be avoided and that Taoiseach Micheál Martin (FF) should remain as party leader.
*Shannon Town Park. CCTV cameras are in place at Shannon Town Park but are not activated which has been labelled as “crazy” by one county councillor.
*Canvassers for Jim Gavin outside Cusack Park on Sunday. FIANNA FÁIL members in Clare have been left “shocked and disappointment” following Jim Gavin’s (FF) withdrawal from the Presidential election.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley SHANNON’s ongoing wait to have a flood relief scheme in place continues to leave homeowners unable to insure their properties.
*Councillors in the Shannon MD. Photograph: Eamon Ward. PLANS by Transport Minister, Darragh O’Brien (FF) to lift the passenger cap at Dublin Airport is “very bad news” and “very damaging” for Shannon Airport and Cork Airport, the Cathaoirleach of the Shannon Municipal District has said.