O’Callaghan to become next Mayor of Clare as roles agreed for next term
*Cllr Alan O’Callaghan. Photograph: Joe Buckley ON Friday, Cllr Alan O’Callaghan (FF) will be elected as the county’s first citizen.
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Surfacing of ‘special’ road ‘won’t break the bank’
*Cllr Gabriel Keating. Photograph: Eamon Ward A ROAD along the Wild Atlantic Way in West Clare “won’t break the bank” if officials in the local authority decide to make a late addition to the roadworks programme for this year.
Stance of Kilrush LEA candidates on the West Clare Greenway
*A section of the West Clare Greenway CONSTRUCTION on the €80m West Clare Railway Greenway is anticipated to start during the course of the next Council term and will be one of the biggest projects for West Clare.
‘West Clare impossible to predict but Gould on course to gain at Fianna Fáil’s expense’
*Some of the Kilrush LEA candidates at The Electoral Chair election debate. Photograph: John Mangan FIRST-TIME candidate Dinny Gould is on course to take one of the five seats at the expense of Fianna Fáil in the Kilrush local electoral area according to a retiring councillor in West Clare.
The Electoral Chair: Kilrush local electoral area election debate
Dinny Gould, Susan Griffin, Kevin Hassett, Cllr Ian Lynch, Cllr Rita McInerney, Cllr Cillian Murphy, Michael Shannon, Alan Troy and Joseph Woulfe. WEST CLARE is certainly awake so far as political debates are concerned.
Top paid Clare councillor in 2023 insists he’s good value for money
*Cllr Tony O’Brien (FF). Photograph: Eamon Ward. CLARE’S highest paid councillor last year insists he is “good value for money” while a total of €1,192,106.46 was dished out among the county’s 28 councillors.
New facilities get go-ahead for Loop Head Lighthouse
PLANNING APPROVAL has been granted to Clare County Council by An Bord Pleanála for the development of new visitor experience facilities at Loop Head Lighthouse Visitor Experience.
‘Forgotten people of Rural Clare not so forgotten’ after extra injection for LIS
*Cllr PJ Kelly. Photograph: Martin Connolly CLARE is to receive €2,079,722 as part of a nationwide extra allocation of €40m for repairs and improvement works on non-public rural roads and laneways under the Local Improvement Scheme (LIS).
‘Remember you are there to serve the people’ – 125 years of democracy celebrated in Clare
*Photograph: Eamon Ward 125 years of local democracy in Clare was acknowledged on Monday.
‘Young drivers the problem’ claim councillors as efforts made to put road safety on curriculum
*Photograph: Joe Buckley 61 PEOPLE have been killed so far on Irish roads this year yet Clare County Council does not have a road safety officer, it emerged this week.