*Cathaoirleach of Clare County Council, Cllr Tony O’Brien, Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien, Chief Executive of Clare County Council Pat Dowling and Director of Services for Social Development, Anne Haugh. Photograph: Eamon Ward TIMEFRAMES for the delivery of social housing in Kilkee could be accelerated.
*More holiday homes in Kilkee are now occupied earlier in the year. HOLIDAY SEASON in Co Clare is now beginning much earlier than in the past, a Kilkee councillor has said.
*Cllr Gabriel Keating. Photograph: Natasha Barton NEW USES FOR the old courthouse in Kilkee are to be considered.
A WEST CLARE property has gone on the market for a sum of €9.75m.
*Frances Street in Kilrush. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’S OIREACHTAS members have been warned they will get “roasted” by the public when they go canvassing for the next General Election.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley SHANNON needs to be treated as “the first step” and destination for constructing greenways in the county, a community representative has argued.
*Comments regarding the golden hour were criticised by Cllr Cillian Murphy. SHORT-TERM absences in the Kilrush Ambulance Station were not filled on twenty one occasions last year, new figures have shown while a county councillor has said the ‘golden hour’ is not pertinent to persons living in parts of West and North Clare.
Patrick Larkin outside Ennis Courthouse. Photograph: Liam Burke / Press 22 A VICTIM of jailed West Clare serial sex-abuser, Patrick Larkin (68) has urged others to come forward if they have been sexually abused by the former Clare County Council worker.
OUTSIDE INFLUENCE has dictated the County Development Plan, elected representatives have said with Clare’s longest serving politician declaring “it is not our plan”.
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.