Clare photographers snap up PPAI awards
*Eamon Ward. TWO CLARE PHOTOGRAPHERS scooped awards in Dublin at the weekend.
*Eamon Ward. TWO CLARE PHOTOGRAPHERS scooped awards in Dublin at the weekend.
*Leo Varadkar. Photograph: Paul Corey CLARE’S TDs were split when it came to the voting in favour or against the Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar (FG) becoming Taoiseach.
*Shannon Heritage workers protesting outside Bunratty Castle. Photograph: Natasha Barton NO CONTACT HAS BEEN made to Clare County Council by any Government Department or Shannon Airport Group since it announced its withdrawal from the planned transfer of Shannon Heritage absence in the absence of State funding.
*Taoiseach Micheál Martin (FF) flanked by Senator Timmy Dooley (FF) and TD Cathal Crowe (FF). Photograph: Natasha Barton TENSIONS between Fianna Fáil’s two Oireachtas representatives have gone up a notch after a critical tweet.
*Photograph: Paschal Brooks THE REPRESENTATIVE BODY for Clare’s tourism sector has warned of the infliction of “long-term damage” to the industry amid ongoing delays to the proposed transfer of assets operated by Shannon Heritage to Clare County Council.
*Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney speaking to The Clare Echo’s Páraic McMahon. HOUSING IS “THE BIGGEST PRIORITY” within the Government yet an insufficient number of houses are being built, the Minister for Foreign Affairs has acknowledged.
LONG-SERVING TD, Éamon Ó Cúiv will be the guest of honour at the annual commemoration of his grand-father Eamon de Valera in Ennis this weekend.
*Knappogue Castle. CORRESPONDENCE has been issued to the Taoiseach seeking the appointment of a liaison officer to accelerate the transfer of Shannon Heritage sites.
*Bunratty Castle. GOVERNMENT FUNDING will not be provided to Clare County Council to take over Shannon Heritage sites in the county, a breakfast briefing of local councillors was informed on Wednesday morning even though the Taoiseach has said the matter is not over.
*An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin at Meira GTx’s Shannon facility. Photograph: Brian Arthur IMPROVEMENTS ARE becoming visible at University Hospital Limerick (UHL), the Taoiseach has claimed.