CLLRS Michael Shannon (FF) and Tom O’Callaghan (FF) gave their support to joining a working group to implement the Local Economic and Community Plan 2024-2030 in a recent council meeting. The Fianna Fáil duo were seconded to the position by Lahinch native cllr Bill Slattery (FG). In a meeting at Clare County Council headquarters in …
Over €4m spent on school prefabs & rental of land since 2020. MORE than €4.1 million has been spent on the rental of land and prefabs in County Clare since 2020. Figures supplied by the Department of Education show that €4,120,753 was spent on the rental of prefabs and land in the county between 2020 …
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*Clare TD, Joe Cooney (FG) with Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG). CLARE’s chances of having a new acute hospital built remain slim following the Minister for Health’s first official visit to the county.
USE OF TFI Local Link services is growing in Clare with a 17.4 percent increase recorded in 2025.
Pictured (L-R): Caroline Kelleher, Director of Public Affairs, The Shannon Airport Group | Maurice Quinlivan TD | Ray O’Driscoll, Interim CEO, The Shannon Airport Group | Louis O’Hara TD | Rachael Leahy, Company Secretary and Head of Legal, The Shannon Airport Group | Joe Cooney TD | Cathal Crowe TD | Donna McGettigan TD | …
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*€750,000 has been allocated for works at Blake’s Corner. Photograph: Bob Singer CO CLARE has received a threefold increase in its national roads funding for 2026.
*Photograph: Mark Carmody ELEVEN power cuts over the past fourteen months in Sixmilebridge were not caused by faulty transformers or storm damage but rather woodpeckers attacking electricity poles.
*Bord Bia Chair, Larry Murrin. AN EAST Clare councillor has rowed back on his calls for the Chair of Bord Bia to resign while Clare’s only female TD has doubled down in seeking Larry Murrin to step down.
CLARE County Council has been allocated €894,122 to cover a substantial portion of the unplanned costs it incurred during last year’s severe winter weather, according to figures released to Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Cooney. The funding confirmation came in a written parliamentary reply from James Browne, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, who …
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THE Government’s decision to vote against the Mercosur deal will come as a “big relief” to Clare farmers, say local representatives. On an official trip to China, Taoiseach Micháel Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris have revealed plans to deny the Mercosur trade agreement with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, which would allow import duties to be …
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