*Roisin Garvey with The Clare Echo Editor, Stuart Holly. Photograph: Joe Buckley The last set of opinion polls for 2021 were announced last weekend and made for interesting reading. The usual caveat that a poll is but a snapshot in time is ever present, but there is still much we can gleam from that snapshot.
APPROACHES have been made at a national level as Fine Gael begin the process of identifying suitable General Election candidates.
SHANNON’s future requires a rebellion when it comes to the local elections according to passionate pleas at a Community Council meeting.
Ongoing controversy surrounding the proposed appointment of Katherine Zappone to a UN role has heightened the need for Leo Varadkar (FG) to consider his position as Fine Gael leader, a prominent Clare member of the party has said.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin (FF) should step down from his position the Chairman of Fianna Fáil’s Clare Comhairle Dáil Cheantair has said while an ex Fine Gael councillor in the county believes Leo Varadkar (FG) should also be considering his position.
*Madeline Taylor Quinn during her time as Mayor of Clare. Photograph: Mick Murtagh A former Clare TD and Senator is to make a political comeback, of sorts.
*Madeline Taylor-Quinn being honoured for her contribution to Clare County Council by former Mayor, Tony Mulcahy. Photograph: Sean McInerney. Clare’s first female TD features in a new publication chronicling the contribution of women to politics Cumann na nGaedhael and Fine Gael.
A Clare TD has received an apology from the Tánaiste after he incorrectly claimed Sinn Féin had no Protestant TDs.
A Kilkee man has claimed he was followed by members of Sinn Féin after tweeting criticism of the political party.
Following publication of the Programme for Government, Clare TD Violet-Anne Wynne (SF) has declared that it doesn’t represent any change.