*Cllr Joe Garrihy (FG), Cllr Shane Talty (FF), Cllr Michael Shannon (FF) and Cllr Joe Killeen (FF). Photograph: Eamon Ward. COUNTY COUNCILLORS have said they are finding it difficult to look North Clare constituents in the eye following the Council’s €8m land acquisition adjacent to the Cliffs of Moher.
*The Cliffs of Moher. CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL’s €8m land deal by the Cliffs of Moher is to come under scrutiny from elected members who themselves are bearing the brunt of public criticism on the matter.
*Burren Oysters. Photograph: Eamon Ward IRELAND’s longest-running slow food festival returns to the Burren for its twentieth year.
*Photograph: John Sheridan LISCANNOR’s public parking, footpath and kerbing is in an “embarrassing condition”, a North Clare councillor has blasted.
*Bunratty Castle & Folk Park. GOVERNANCE standards of Clare County Council have come under scrutiny over the manner in which a deal to purchase land in Bunratty was carried out.
*The Cliffs of Moher Visitor Centre. MORE THAN €8m was spent by Clare County Council on two sites adjacent to the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Centre.
*Cllr Bill Slattery (FG). Photograph: John Mangan A NORTH CLARE councillor has questioned the local authority on whether they know the meaning of the word honour while voicing criticism of the failure to follow through on a land agreement in Liscannor.
AFTER MUCH anticipation, Clare County Council published the 246-page report charting the future management plan for the Cliffs of Moher Walk.
*Carmel Connaire (right) at the bench outside The Coffee Hatch with. A CAMPAIGN TO save a bench outside a Lahinch commercial premises is garnering momentum with over 700 signatures to a petition pleading for it to be retained.
LAHINCH’s post office network has been saved with a new arrangement to come into being in the coming months.
