*Micheál Martin with Cathal Crowe at The Old Ground Hotel. Photograph: John O’Brien An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin (FF) has appointed Clare TD Cathal Crowe (FF) to the All-Party Consultation Group on State Commemorations.
Local councillors clashed over calls to set up a financial levy “if and when” water from Lough Derg is abstracted to Dublin.
*Photograph: Joe McCallion A Parteen woman has been named as the winner of Home of the Year.
*Johnny Callinan. Photograph: Joe Buckley Depending on your vintage, the release of John Callinan’s autobiography ‘To Play, To Live’ is either a welcome lockdown leap down memory lane to an era in which Clare were a match for anyone in the land or a timely introductory insight into one of the county’s greatest ever hurlers.
An impasse has been reached in Parteen with a decommissioning notice from Clare County Council issued surrounding the development of a wind turbine ignored thus far.
*Photograph: John Mangan Renewable energy developments should be not allowed proceed in the centre of villages, a South Clare representative has stated.
An East Clare councillor has urged National Broaband Ireland (NBI) to brush up on their geography after signs emerged in the county indicating that it was Limerick.
Local representatives and community members are aggrieved at the recent construction of a windmill at Knockballynameath, Parteen.
A podcast series is to be released by Clare GAA throughout the month of March.
While all the indications are that it will be some time yet before competition returns for many sports, Clare camogie will be ready to go once the green light is given.