‘More chance of a bullock getting a holiday than Broadford’s sewerage scheme being built’
*Photograph: Páraic McMahon. A BULLOCK is closer to a holiday than Broadford is to getting a sewerage scheme, a county councillor has remarked.
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Delays acquiring Dean’s Field to provide parking in Killaloe due to ‘convoluted’ legal process
*Dean’s Field. Photograph: Buffalo Studios Ireland. “I’M not an eejit but I don’t like what I’m seeing,” remarked Cllr Tony O’Brien (FF) when criticising the lack of urgency within Clare County Council to improve the provision of parking within Killaloe.
Officials optimistic 95% of land for 43km Limerick to Scarrif Greenway will be on publicly owned land
*Raheen Woods has emerged as a preferred route along the Greenway. A 43km greenway linking Limerick City and East Clare is to be opened up in stages with officials optimistic 95 percent of the land used will be publicly owned.
Bog Road in Clooney ‘quite poor’ Council acknowledge
SENIOR ENGINEERS in Clare County Council have acknowledged that ‘The Bog Road’ in Clooney “is quite poor” and in need of repairs.
Frustration reaches fever pitch for ex Mayor O’Brien on failure to provide safe facilities on Clare roads
*Cllr Tony O’Brien (FF). Photograph: Eamon Ward. A FORMER MAYOR of Clare has said he won’t sit back any longer and accept unsafe conditions on the roads of East Clare.
Lovely entrance to O’Callaghans Mills at risk of removal
*The entrance to O’Callaghans Mills. REMOVING a tree lined landscape on “a lovely entrance” to O’Callaghans Mills “would be a shame”, a senior engineer in Clare County Council has said.
Limerick to Scariff Greenway ‘has gone off the agenda’
*Ogonnelloe is among the expected connection points. A 43km greenway planned for East Clare “has gone off the agenda,” a former Mayor of Clare has lamented.
€1m for Killaloe/Ballina enhancement plan but Crusheen rail stop misses out on funding
€1M has been allocated for the delivery of public realm and enhancement projects in Killaloe and Ballina but the wheels are not moving in Crusheen with no money set aside for the reopening of the rail stop in the village.
‘I had to Google knotweed, I thought of PJ Kelly & that it was something you would smoke’ – very limited levels of funding for invasive species in East Clare
GROWTH OF invasive species is occurring at “huge levels” in East Clare while funding for its removal and treatment is “very limited”.
‘There’s a pothole in the Mills too’ – East Clare Cllrs told ‘put on the helmets’
TWO EAST CLARE councillors were advised to ‘put on their helmets’ after digs were fired over the presence of potholes in respective parishes.