A PUBLIC MEETING is to be held in Shannon today (Saturday) as locals seek answers on plans to use a large industrial building for emergency accommodation for refugees.
*Damage in Quilty and Seafield following the storms of 2014. QUILTY AND parts of West Clare “are the forefront of the consequences of climate change,” the Cathaoirleach of the local electoral area has stressed.
OVER €1.2m is calculated as the cost for repairs to the Strand Line Wall in Kilkee.
Specialist ‘Bat Tiles’ have been put in place in the roof of Kilrush Courthouse to allow Natterer bats to continue to live in their Maternity Bat roost there.
CONTRACTS are due to be exchanged this month on a new use for what was formerly the Garda Station in Lissycasey.
*Flooding in Clareabbey from February 2020. Photograph: Joe Buckley FRUSTRATION has been voiced with the continued absence flood maps to represent the Ennis South Flood Relief Scheme.
Speeding of trucks completing flood defence work in Clonlara has been raised as a concern by elected representatives in South-East Clare.
Springfield’s long awaited flood relief scheme is expected to commence construction in early August.
*Cllr Gerry Flynn. Photograph: Eamon Ward A Shannon councillor has clashed with senior officials in Clare County Council on the pace at which two key projects for the town are moving at.
The absence of a planned reopening date for a historical landmark in Ennis has been lamented as “appalling” by the county’s first citizen.
