Three social workers assigned to 43 children in care in Clare
TUSLA are to double the number of social workers in Clare this summer but service gaps are leading to children from the county being sent for placement in Donegal and Cork.
TUSLA are to double the number of social workers in Clare this summer but service gaps are leading to children from the county being sent for placement in Donegal and Cork.
*Joe Cooney TD (FG). Members of the Former Housing Commission have backed calls by Clare TD Joe Cooney (FG) for increased funding under the Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant scheme to address the impact of rising construction costs on the programme’s effectiveness.
*Donna McGettigan TD (SF). Photograph: Eamon Ward CLARE’s sole opposition TD has said the county’s other elected members of Dáil Éireann are on the wrong side of history in their refusal to support Sinn Féin’s Israeli War Bonds legislation.
REGINA HOUSE in Kilrush is to reopen by the end of the year, the HSE have confirmed.
SUPPLY and consumption of drugs is rife but just 18 Gardaí are assigned to the Clare/Tipperary Divisional Drugs Unit.
“GRAVE CONCERN” has been expressed by a Clare TD for the future of the West Clare Railway Greenway.
*Dr Daly Park, Tulla. TULLA GAA are proceeding with plans for an indoor hurling wall and astroturf as well as a new all weather pitch.
*Donna McGettigan TD (SF). Photograph: Joe Buckley TWO OF Clare’s TDs have become embroiled in a row with claims of ‘false accusations’ and ‘mistrust’.
*Photograph: John Mangan HSE OFFICIALS have said they are ‘actively working’ on plans to secure a permanent GP for the village of Newmarket-on-Fergus while a Clare TD has criticised the imbalance of GP cover in the county.
ENNIS’ long-awaited satellite haemodialysis unit will be up and running by the end of June next year, the HSE has stated following the conclusion of a tender process.