*Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll McNeill (FG) on her visit to UHL. Photograph: Don Moloney NO COMMITMENTS will be made by the Minister for Health on the provision and location of a second emergency department in the Mid-West until a HIQA review is completed in May.
TWO-TIME ALL-Ireland winning Clare hurler, Ollie Baker has been appointed to a new Garda role in Galway.
*Cathal Crowe. Photograph: John O’Neill A CLARE GOVERNMENT TD has said it is inevitable that an additional accident and emergency department will be needed in the Mid-West.
An asylum seeker has appeared in court charged in connection with incidents, including an alleged assault, at a north Clare direct provision centre on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. At Ennis District Court on Wednesday, Khaled Hamama (23) appeared in connection with the alleged assault causing harm to Djabir Gassen at the Central Hotel on Main Street, Miltown Malbay on Christmas Eve, …
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U14 Boys: Ennis RFC 31 – 31 UL Bohemians RFC Ennis came into this North Munster game unbeaten. In Annacotty, UL Bohemians started strong with a converted try but Ennis quickly struck back with a well-worked try scored and converted by Steven O’Neill. Ennis then had a penalty awarded which was duly converted by O’Neill, …
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*Photograph: Martin Connolly CLARE’S newly amalgamated Garda Division with Tipperary is comprised of six Superintendents but just one of these will be based in Co Clare while there are 33 less Garda members since 2018.
*Bill Slattery and Donogh O’Loughlin. Photograph: John Mangan BUSINESSES IN LAHINCH will struggle if proposed parking fees are enforced in the coastal town but one long-standing retailer has vowed that the local authority will not shut down his enterprise.
A NEW strategy allowing ambulances responding to 112/999 calls to bring non-urgent cases to Ennis General Hospital has been welcomed as a positive development by Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Carey. Since 2009, University Hospital Limerick, which is designated as a model 4 hospital, has provided the only 24-hour emergency department service for a population …
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AIB will not proceed with proposed changes to make 70 branches cashless including four in Co Clare.
*A section of Saturday’s crowd reflected through a mirror in Ennis. Photograph: Martin Molloy. PROMISES OF a centre of excellence have instead resulted in “a war zone,” a local health activist has claimed.
