NO RULES are in place to stipulate that only urban areas are eligible for Active Travel funding, the Minister for Transport has said.
*EV charging points. CLARE needs to be more plugged in when it comes to installing electric vehicle charging points.
*Impact to the Kilkee Cliff Walk has been flagged as a concern by locals. UISCE ÉIREANN’s proposals for a wastewater treatment plant in Kilkee “will be out of date before it is built,” one of the country’s most prominent chartered civil engineers has said.
*Cllr Gabriel Keating (FG). Photograph: Natasha Barton. WEST CLARE is “falling behind” on plans to deliver a greenway along the tracks of the iconic railway line.
FUTURE uses for the old Mars cinema are to be discussed at a walk-in clinic in Kilrush next Thursday.
*NCT. FRESH CALLS have been made for an NCT centre to be opened in West Clare.
*Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly (FF). Photograph: Brian Arthur HIQA’s review into the potential for a second emergency department in the Mid-West region must be published before next summer, county councillors have stressed.
Siobhan O’Reilly, Rural Development Directorate, Clare County Council; Anne Haugh, Director of Social Development, Clare County Council; and Siobhan McNulty, Senior Executive Officer, Clare County Council. Photograph: Eamon Ward ANNE Haugh has taken early retirement from her role as a Director of Service with Clare County Council while Ennistymon woman Siobhán McNulty has been promoted …
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*Ennis Hospital. HEALTH activists and politicians in Clare have said it is “inevitable” that a HIQA review will recommend the creation of a second emergency department in the Mid-West region.
*Protesters in Kilrush on Wednesday evening. A SUSPECTED arson attack was carried out on a Kilrush premises earmarked for use to house 27 refugees.
