*Carmel Kirby. Photograph: John O’Neill LIAM CONNEALLY’s exit from Clare County Council has resulted in switches among the senior management of the local authority.
LOCAL FISHERMAN will be among those consulted if the outside pier at Carrigaholt is to undergo improvement works.
*The Old Rectory building in Mountshannon. TARGETS for the operation of a visitor centre for Inis Cealtra are set to be missed while the work on a Maritime Training College in Kilrush is “lagging”.
*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.
SOUNDING OF THE BELL at the end of a school day may be a happy time for students but it is “very stressful” for others, a North Clare representative has flagged.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CRUNCH MEETINGS are being held by Council and Department officials on the proposed transfer of Shannon Heritage’s Clare assets.
*Pat Dowling, Cllr Tony O’Brien, Bernadette Haugh and Leonard Cleary. Photograph: Eamon Ward CHALLENGES FACING RURAL Clare will be met head on by the renewed Clare Rural Development Strategy 2030, officials behind the document have maintained.
*The comments were made at a sitting of the Clare JPC. A CLARE TD has said persons with a conviction for sexual offences should not be considered for social housing schemes that also include families.
*Cathal Crowe addresses Shannon Heritage workers. Photograph: Natasha Barton RENEWED CONFIDENCE has been expressed by a Clare TD that “appropriate funding and a satisfactory resolution” is on the way for the transfer of Shannon Heritage sites to Clare County Council.
*Photograph: Arthur Ellis ONE OF CLARE’s most respected Garda officers has this week retired from the force.
