THE Broadford to Oatfield Windfarm Action Group has challenged the developers behind the Knockshanvo and Oatfield windfarms to engage meaningfully with the communities of East Clare.
WIND Energy Ireland has disputed claims made by the Broadford to Oatfield Windfarm Action group.
*Signs opposing the development in Broadford. 191 valid submissions have been made to An Bord Pleanála regarding Ørsted’s plans to construct 11 wind turbines in Oatfield.
*An impression of the Lackreach Wind Farm. ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES have criticised energy companies for producing “shiny brochures” but failing to engage with politicians on their proposals.
*Members of the public who were in the gallery for Monday’s Clare County Council meeting. ELECTED representatives of Clare County Council have hit out at plans from energy companies to erect wind turbines from Meelick to Bodyke in six different developments.
EAST CLARE is facing the possibility of becoming a wind turbine hotspot if multiple developments are given the green light.
*Labhaoise O’Donnell finished with a hat-trick for Scariff/Ogonnelloe. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ENTERING THE FINAL round of the Clare Credit Unions senior camogie championship, title holders Scariff/Ogonnelloe and Feakle/Killanena are among the sides to have booked their place in the knockout stages.
CLARE DUO, Diarmaid Nash and Colin Crehan secured a third senior doubles title in the O’Neill’s All-Ireland 4-Wall Senior Championships.
*Family members at the plaque to Fr James Austin in Sixmilebridge. A PLAQUE has been erected in honour of a Sixmilebridge priest who administered the last rites to soldiers fighting in the GPO during the 1916 Easter Rising.
YOUNG CLARE PEOPLE are emigrating “in their droves”.
