Shannon Bridge Crossing & R494 upgrade on target for mid-2025 completion
*The new bridge between Killaloe and Ballina lit up for the first time. COMPLETION targets for one of the biggest infrastructural projects in East Clare are on track to be met.
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Dedicated tourism policy committee to be established by Council
*Loop Head Lighthouse is one of the tourist attractions within the Council’s tourism portfolio. TOURISM is to have its own dedicated Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) set up within Clare County Council.
‘Deliver Ennis Town Bus before wasting hundreds of thousands arguing with people’
*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.
Pulling Active Travel from rural Clare ‘utterly discriminatory’
*The pedestrian crossing in Spanish Point was one of the final Active Travel projects in Clare. ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES in West and North Clare have slammed the manner in which Active Travel has been pulled from rural areas as “utterly discriminatory”.
One piece of dog poo can see a beach breach its health standards
*Photograph: John Mangan JUST ONE piece of dog faeces is enough to fail a beach in its efforts to retain its Blue Flag.
Health impacts of air pollution spikes in Ennis remain a concern
ENNIS’ poor air quality has been blamed with increasing admissions to emergency departments.
Morgan Lahiffe appointed as Council’s first climate action co-ordinator
*Morgan Lahiffe (far right) becomes the Council’s first climate action co-ordinator. Photograph: Ruth Griffin BAREFIELD’S MORGAN LAHIFFE has been appointed as the new climate action co-ordinator within Clare County Council.
‘Until people pay for water they won’t respect it’
PEOPLE OF CLARE do not understand or respect water as a resource, a conservation expert has stated.
‘Our rights are being denied’ – Padraic flags difficulties for disabled people on public transport
*Padraic Hayes at home in Shannon. Photograph: Joe Buckley PUBLIC TRANSPORT is hindering persons with disabilities from employment opportunities, a Shannon based activist has claimed.
NTA behind proposal to bring rail link to Shannon Airport
Provision of a rail link for Shannon is included as an objective of the Limerick Shannon Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (LSMATS) which will include a spur to Shannon Airport.