*Mary Howard celebrates. Photograph: Joe Buckley 49% of the electorate in the Ennis Municipal District spoke and voted on who they wanted to serve as their representatives on Clare County Council.
*Cllr Alan O’Callaghan. Photograph: Joe Buckley ON Friday, Cllr Alan O’Callaghan (FF) will be elected as the county’s first citizen.
*Clareabbey. NECESSARY SUPPORT needs to be introduced via the use of CCTV and drone technology to clamp down on illegal dumping in Clarecastle.
*Tommy Guilfoyle. Photograph: John Mangan ENNIS’ five sitting councillors should be returned with Sinn Féin likely to take one of the two remaining seats in the Ennis Municipal District, a departing councillor has predicted.
*Cllr Johnny Flynn. Photograph: Chris Copley EXITING Ennis representative, Cllr Johnny Flynn (FG) has resigned from Fine Gael over the lack of support received from party colleagues regarding the plans for the Ennis 2040 strategy.
*A CGI of the proposed Abbey Street development. COMMON GROUND needs to be found to stop “the siege of Ennis”, a tempestuous Council briefing was urged which saw an apology issued following comments by Ennis 2040’s senior official and a call for the designative activity company to be dissolved.
*Cllr Paul Murphy. Photograph: Tom Micks AN APOLOGY has been issued by Cllr Paul Murphy (FG) for his comments on elderly drivers and criticism of “licences for life”.
*Candidates in the Ennis Municipal District who attended The Electoral Chair election debate. POLLING DAY is less than a month away and as part of The Clare Echo’s build-up to the local elections, The Electoral Chair has kicked off election debates in all of the electoral areas.
*Clancy Park is now home of an illegal encampment. ENNIS RESIDENTS are “stressed and sleepless in a state of trauma” following the emergence of a new illegal encampment.
*Photograph: Eamon Ward 125 years of local democracy in Clare was acknowledged on Monday.
