*An aerial shot of Cappa. Photograph: Airswing Media. CAPPA has regained its Blue Flag status which it lost in 2023, it is one of nine Clare beaches to receive the coveted award for 2025.
NEW streetlights have been sought on the road from Quilty village to Seafield.
Annette Kenny, Seasonal Dog Warden, and Ciara Daffy, Environmental Community Warden, Clare County Council, at Lahinch Beach. EXTRA DOG control patrols are to be conducted across Clare beaches this summer.
REPAIRS are due to be completed to the access road leading to Seafield Pier in advance of the bathing season.
FOURTEEN Clare locations have been awarded Blue Flags and Green Coast awards for the upcoming 2024 bathing season.
*Calls for the installation of a crane in Carrigaholt were made at the recent meeting of the West Clare MD. INSTALLING A CRANE at the outside pier in Carrigaholt could be the difference in keeping people in the fishing industry, a county councillor has argued.
EIGHT CLARE BEACHES have retained Blue Flags for the 2023 bathing season while Cappa has lost its status.
*Seafield, COUNCIL OFFICIALS have admitted they can’t keep their head in the sand on the need to make further improvements at Seafield.
*Volunteers in Seafield. A RECORD number of volunteers were out in force for annual Big Beach Clean weekend with an estimated 2.5 tonnes of litter collected in Clare.
*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.
