‘Red tape & grant regulations on septic tanks stopping more houses coming back into use’
GRANT REGULATIONS and red tape surrounding septic tanks have been blamed with building barriers stopping vacant houses from coming back into use across Clare.
Lisdoonvarna
Bid to ban daytrip buses from Cliffs of Moher fails to get backing of North & West Clare councillors
*FILE PIC: Bobby Kerr, Chairman of the Board, Cliffs of Moher Ltd, Leonard Cleary, Director of Tourism with Clare County Council and Geraldine Enright, Cliffs of Moher. Photograph by Eamon Ward. ELECTED representatives in West and North Clare refused to back a motion from a Green Party councillor banning day trip buses from visiting the …
One piece of dog poo can see a beach breach its health standards
*Photograph: John Mangan JUST ONE piece of dog faeces is enough to fail a beach in its efforts to retain its Blue Flag.
Semi-final showdowns confirmed for Clare SFC & IFC
*Darragh McDonagh holds off the challenge of Jack Sheedy. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography CRATLOE stand in the way of champions Éire Óg advancing to a third Clare SFC final in a row.
Semi-finals Breckans for Saints
*Joe McGann. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill St Breckan’s eased into a third Clare Senior Football Championship Semi-Final in four years after holding off Lissycasey in Cusack Park.
‘While the Council is waiting the fungus is growing’ – action needed on invasive species
*Giant Hogweed. INVASIVE SPECIES’ growth across Co Clare is continuing but this has not been matched by adequate funding to tackle the issue.
‘It’s RIP for West Clare’ – intervention of Oireachtas members sought to overturn planning directive
*Lissycasey. WEST CLARE “will be wiped out” if a directive issued to Clare County Council over its County Development Plan proceeds, an elected representative has claimed.
St Breckan’s book quarter-final place & Corofin facing relegation
*Colm O’Brien takes on Gearoid Cahill. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography St. Breckan’s confirmed their place in the last eight of the TUS Clare senior football championship when accounting for their North Clare neighbours Corofin before a disappointing attendance at Cusack Park this Saturday evening.
Clare hotels share out €21.27m Ukrainian accommodation bonanza
*The Auburn Lodge received the highest level of payments for accommodating Ukrainians than any other Clare hotel last year. A NUMBER OF Clare hotel operators last year shared out a €21.27m (all figures 23pc VAT) bonanza from accommodating Ukrainians.
Inaction to improve North Clare road network criticised at remembrance walk for Jerry O’Connor
*Helga Himmselbach puts questions to Cllr Joe Garrihy. ONE MONTH on from the death of Lisdoonvarna’s Jerry O’Connor, a remembrance walk was held in Ballyvaughan with repeated questions put towards politicians on what they are doing to improve the safety of the road network in North Clare.