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NTA puts €6m value on Adare Ryder Cup park and ride and train and ride services

*Photo via Ryder Cup website THE National Transport Authority (NTA) has put a €6m estimate on a contract to provide ‘park and ride’ and ‘train and ride’ services for the 2027 Ryder Cup in Adare, Co Limerick. In tender documents published today, the NTA is seeking transport firms to operate the passenger transport services for …

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Ennis town bus service to launch in September

By Páraic McMahon

Sean Abeyta from GLAS Civil Engineering with Cllr Mary Howard and Senior Engineer Ennis Municipal District Hugh McGrath at the site of one of the new bus stops. Photograph: Eamon Ward. ENNIS’ long-awaited town-bus service is to launch in September.

‘The numbers demand this’ – Student Council lobby councillors to help provide bus shelter at St Flannan’s College

By Páraic McMahon

*St Flannan’s College. MEMBERS of the Student Council at St Flannan’s College have lobbied councillors in the Ennis Municipal District to assist with the construction of a bus shelter at the secondary school.

Case for bus shelter in Kilmihil & new stop in Lissycasey put forward

By Páraic McMahon

*Photograph: Páraic McMahon PROVISION of better a bus shelter in Kilmihil and “safe bus stop” for Lissycasey has been sought by a West Clare representative.

‘Deliver Ennis Town Bus before wasting hundreds of thousands arguing with people’

By Páraic McMahon

*Theresa O’Donoghue. A FORMER MAYOR of Ennis has insisted the town’s bus service is on track to be delivered next year while a climate activist has said the public need to be able to visualise such a scheme before buying into the Ennis 2040 Strategy.

Design solution for Shanaway Rd to be devised along with cycle scheme for Lahinch Rd

By Páraic McMahon

*The Shanaway Rd junction. PROPOSALS for a new design of the Shanaway Road junction on the N85 are to be prepared in tandem with a cycle lane scheme planned for the Lahinch Rd in Ennis.

Preferred routes identified for Ennis Town bus service

By Páraic McMahon

PREFERRED routes for the Ennis Town Bus Service have been identified with early 2025 the planned timeframe for its beginning.

Hope expressed that Mullagh NS works will be funded under Safe Routes to School programme

By Páraic McMahon

APPEALS FOR a pedestrian crossing and lights plus the presence of a lollipop persons have been made for Mullagh National School.

Kilmihil ‘a very confusing place for pedestrians’

By Páraic McMahon

KILMIHIL has been described as “a very confusing place for a pedestrian”.

Nowhere to stop the bus sees NTA funding for Kilrush go unspent

By Páraic McMahon

AN OFFER from the National Transport Authority (NTA) to fund a new bus stop in Kilrush has not materialised due to an inability to find “a suitable location”.

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