Woodpeckers to blame for Sixmilebridge power cuts
*Photograph: Mark Carmody ELEVEN power cuts over the past fourteen months in Sixmilebridge were not caused by faulty transformers or storm damage but rather woodpeckers attacking electricity poles.
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Plans lodged for multi-billion water extraction project at Parteen Basin
*Parteen Basin. UISCE ÉIREANN have lodged plans for the State’s largest-ever water project which will see water drained from the Parteen Basin on the River Shannon to supply the capital.
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.
Businesses ‘betrayed’ by Council’s decision to raise commercial rates by 8%
*Frank Landy. BUSINESSES across Clare have said they feel “betrayed” by the decision of Clare County Council and its elected members to increase commercial rates by 8 percent.
Power outage in Ennistymon after transformer catches fire
*Photograph: John Sheridan A FIRE on an electricity pole in Ennistymon left over 700 people without power in North Clare.
Heavy rain & high winds in Clare during ‘severe’ Orange Weather warning for Storm Amy
*Spot flooding in Smithstown Industrial Estate in Shannon. Photograph: Joe Buckley CO CLARE is under a “severe” Status Orange weather wind warning until Friday night.
Future of Limerick to Scariff Greenway left ‘in no man’s land’
*Contracts for designing the Greenway were signed in June 2021. FUTURE of the Limerick to Scariff Greenway is “in no man’s land”, frustrated elected representatives in East Clare have said.
Public reminded fast-flowing waters & fluctuating levels make Ardnacrusha unsafe for swimmers
MEMBERS of the public have been reminded that it is unsafe to swim at the canal in Ardnacrusha.
Moneypoint ceases burning coal after 40 years
MONEYPOINT has ceased the burning of coal at its plant after forty years.
‘Moneypoint’s potential would be maxmised if it was in Kerry’
WEST CLARE is at risk of being “short-changed” when it comes to offshore wind projects while Kerry would take better “advantage” of Moneypoint if it was in their county, according to elected members of the Council.