*Jack Chambers TD. A JUNIOR MINISTER in the Department of Transport has said he is willing to meet Clare councillors over their frustrations on road maintenance budgets and Active Travel allocations.
Pictured at the contract signing for the development of a new café and restaurant at Vandeleur Walled Garden and Visitor Centre – Back left to right: Gerard O’Malley, Tom Mc Namara and Partners; Louise Loughnane and Martin Loughnane, Martins Construction; Aldo Andreucetti, Clare County Council; Noel Kilkenny, Chair, Kilrush Amenity Trust; Donnacha Lynch, Clare Tourism …
*Pat Dowling, Chief Executive of Clare County Council and Siobhan King, Client Services Officer at Failte Ireland with (back) from left Leonard Cleary, Director of Tourism Development and West Clare MD; Enda McNamara, Senior Executive Engineer, Clare County Council; John O’Malley, Senior Executive Officer, Clare County Council; Cllr Shane Talty, PJ Carmody, Project Manager, Clare …
*Photograph: John Mangan FRUSTRATION IS close to boiling point for North Clare councillors over the six month wait to fill the post of senior executive officer for the local authority in Ennistymon.
*Seamus & Mary Hanley show the extent of the pyrite damage to their home. Photograph: Joe Buckley CLARE should not be waiting on a pilot scheme to be completed in another county before its social housing stock has access to a defective concrete block scheme, a Shannon representative has said.
“CREATIVE THINKING” can see the ring road in Kilkee offer a cycling link between the Cliff Walk and the planned West Clare Greenway, a local representative has affirmed.
*A demonstration held in memory of Jerry O’Connor. Photograph: John Mangan ABUNDANCE OF TRAFFIC and recent accidents in North Clare has gone “passed saturation point” with frustration voiced with the ongoing wait for a transport and mobility strategy.
*Ballycannon Heights in Meelick is among the locations impacted. Photograph: Natasha Barton LIGHTS are out in a number of housing estates across the county as a result of new compliance measures between ESB and Safe Electric when it comes to undertaking upgrades.
*Photograph: Eamon Ward LOCAL DEMOCRACY has been “sterilised,” elected members of Clare County Council have claimed.
*Lissycasey. WEST CLARE “will be wiped out” if a directive issued to Clare County Council over its County Development Plan proceeds, an elected representative has claimed.
