Limerick support key to SDZ overcoming first hurdle
REGIONAL co-operation is essential to the advancing of a proposal of a strategic development zone between Clare County Council and the University of Limerick, a Clare TD has stressed.
Michael McNamara
Shannon Heritage sites to open for summer but long-term ownership reliant on funding approval
Photograph: Paschal Brooks SHANNON HERITAGE operated sites are likely to be open for the coming summer season but their long-term transfer to Clare County Council will be reliant on the local authority securing adequate funding.
Tender for Shannon riverbank walk upgrade to be awarded shortly
Clare Independent TD Michael McNamara has expressed his hope that works will begin shortly on the upgrading of a section of the popular riverbank walk in Shannon town, which has become impassable in recent years.
Moneypoint has role to play in addressing energy crisis – McNamara
Independent Clare TD Michael McNamara has criticised the Government’s policy of closing power stations during an energy crisis in the hope that they will eventually be replaced with green energy sources at an unspecified time in the future.
McNamara pushes for tax-free bonus for qualifying frontline workers in Clare
Deputy Michael McNamara has requested the Government to enable employers to provide a €1,000 Covid bonus to qualifying employees without them or their employees incurring a tax liability.
No Clare schools applied for additional funding for HEPA filters
NO CLARE schools applied for additional funding to install HEPA air filtration devices.
Miltown Malbay reservoir works underway
*Photograph: Arthur Ellis A NEW reservoir serving Miltown Malbay and surrounding areas is to be delivered in the second half of 2022.
EOIN NEYLON: What the latest political opinion polls mean in Clare
*Roisin Garvey with The Clare Echo Editor, Stuart Holly. Photograph: Joe Buckley The last set of opinion polls for 2021 were announced last weekend and made for interesting reading. The usual caveat that a poll is but a snapshot in time is ever present, but there is still much we can gleam from that snapshot.
Minister Ryan’s Clare trip cancelled as he tests positive for COVID-19
*Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan. Photograph: John Mangan Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan (GP) was forced to cancel a planned trip to Clare on Friday after testing positive for COVID-19.
Inis Cealtra & The Burren shaping up for UNESCO status
TWO Clare locations are set to be included in Ireland’s latest application for UNESCO world heritage status.
