FORMER COUNTY COUNCILLOR, Martin Lafferty has been remembered as an individual who put humanity, empathy and what he believed in at the centre of his life.
*Treacy’s Oakwood Arms Hotel in Shannon is among the hotels in Clare housing Ukrainians. CLARE’S CURRENT MANNER of accommodating Ukrainian refugees is not sustainable, the Chief Executive of Clare County Council has said.
*Cllr Gerry Flynn (IND). Photograph: Natasha Barton HIRING CONTRACTORS instead of utilising internal staff of Clare County Council needs to be dealt with, a Shannon councillor has said.
NORTH CLARE is “only at the beginning” of its attempts to make the area enriched by sustainable communities while 525 cars in Doolin and Lisdoonvarna will have to go electric over the next decade to half private vehicle emissions.
*Photograph: Martin Kiely REVISIONS to try make an application for the Burren designated as a world heritage site are to be made.
CLARE is standing in front of an open goal but is kicking the ball towards the corner flag when it comes to securing investment for offshore energy.
STRICTER ENFORCEMENT of by-laws could see the amount of dog attacks “dramatically reduced”.
“MASS EVICTIONS” will occur in April if the current ban is not extended, local councillors have warned.
*Bunratty Castle Hotel is among the hotels in Clare where Ukraine refugees are residing. MOVEMENT to use accommodation other than hotels to house refugees has been done too slow in Ireland, a Government TD has said.
GOVERNMENT housing policy is turning rural Clare into somewhere people “come to take a photograph and go away and no one lives there”, a meeting has heard.
