€125k boost for Clare Christmas sales due to Clare Gift Card
Pre-Christmas sales in Clare received a €125k boost as a result of the Clare Gift Card.
Ennis
Biden expected to have Shannon stopover in June as Clare link to administration emerges
US President Joe Biden’s is expected to make a stopover at Shannon Airport in June while a Clare link will form part of his administration.
Pope Francis appoints Scariff’s Archbishop Nugent Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait and Qatar
A Scariff priest has been appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait and Qatar by Pope Francis.
Developer flags concern with sewage system for social housing in Newmarket-on-Fergus
Social housing units in Newmarket-on-Fergus will be completed two years before a Shannon treatment plant is ready to receive sewage from the houses, a construction representative has cautioned.
ESB’s sub-station in Knockaderry ‘like a scene from Eastern Europe 20 years ago’
An ESB sub-station located in Ennis has been equated with a scene “from Eastern Europe twenty years ago”.
Current operations of Homeless Action Team treating homelessness as ‘nine to five issue’
Criticism of the system operated by the Homeless Action Team has been voiced with one Ennis representative of the view that that the current procedure treats homelessness in the county as a ‘nine to five issue’.
Clarity sought surrounding maintenance responsibility at Pairc na Coille retirement village
Confusion surrounds the responsibility for maintenance at an Ennis retirement village.
Clinical oversight team assigned to Cahercalla in response to COVID-19 outbreak with Army personnel on-site
Management at Cahercalla Community Hospital are currently on COVID leave as the health care facility responds to an outbreak of the virus which has required the deployment of the Defence Forces.
‘An ambush’ – councillors dispute use of Mayor and Cathaoirleach titles
Clare councillors were drawn into a dispute when it came to the appropriate title of the county’s first citizen which the incumbent labelled “an ambush”.
Two arrests made following release of firearm in Shannon
Two men have been arrested following an incident in Shannon earlier this week.