*Brian McCarthy. Photograph: Eamon Ward. ONE OF Clare County Council’s top officials who has been credited with “bringing millions into East Clare” is leaving the local authority to become a Director of Service with Limerick City and County Council.
*Contracts for designing the Greenway were signed in June 2021. FUTURE of the Limerick to Scariff Greenway is “in no man’s land”, frustrated elected representatives in East Clare have said.
*Cllr Pat Hayes (FF). Photograph: Tom Micks A LONG-SERVING East Clare councillor has said his Ennis counterparts “don’t seem to be able to use” funds allocated for Active Travel and it should be stripped off them.
TWO HOUR delays were experienced by East Clare residents due to massive backlogs at Ballycuggeran on Saturday.
*Cllr Pat Hayes (FF). Photograph: Ruth Griffin. AN EAST CLARE representative has accused a Tipperary councillor of spreading “misinformation” about the trial pedestrianisation of the bridge linking Killaloe and Ballina.
PEDESTRIANISATION is to be trialled from the end of July to the middle of October on the old bridge linking Killaloe and Ballina.
*Cllr Pat Hayes (FF) and Cllr Pat Burke (FG). WITHIN his own parish of Mountshannon, Cllr Pat Burke (FG) became Cathaoirleach of the Killaloe Municipal District for the third time.
*Cllr Pat Burke (FG). Photograph: Martin Connolly “SOMETIMES I wonder do we have anything else to talk about,” remarked Cllr Pat Burke (FG) at the latest sitting of the Killaloe Municipal District.
*Photograph: Noreen Finn ONGOING investment in Killaloe has underlined the opportunity to market the East Clare town as “the gateway to Co Clare”.
*Contracts for the design of the 42km Limerick to Scariff Greenway were signed in June 2021. AN EAST CLARE greenway is “well behind schedule” with elected members worried about how quiet the project has gone.