Burren Slow Food Festival simmers for twentieth run
*Burren Oysters. Photograph: Eamon Ward IRELAND’s longest-running slow food festival returns to the Burren for its twentieth year.
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‘Embarrassing’ state of footpaths, kerbs & parking slammed in Liscannor
*Photograph: John Sheridan LISCANNOR’s public parking, footpath and kerbing is in an “embarrassing condition”, a North Clare councillor has blasted.
Audit raises questions of Council’s governance following management of Bunratty deal
*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.
Council paid €8m to acquire two pieces of land adjacent to Cliffs of Moher
*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.
‘Does the word honour mean anything’ – Council criticised for failing to fulfill Liscannor land agreement
*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.
Council publish 264-page Tobin Report on Cliffs of Moher coastal walk
AFTER MUCH anticipation, Clare County Council published the 246-page report charting the future management plan for the Cliffs of Moher Walk.
Save our seat campaign gathering momentum in Lahinch
*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.
Post office service saved in Lahinch
LAHINCH’s post office network has been saved with a new arrangement to come into being in the coming months.
Pilot shuttle bus for Burren & Cliffs of Moher ‘has to remain a positive news story for North Clare’
A PILOT bus service for the Burren and Cliffs of Moher is expected to commence at the beginning of May and “will only work if people use the bus”.
‘Only the swings are working at disgraceful Lahinch playground’ slams Slattery
*Lahinch Playground. LAHINCH playground’s present state is “disgraceful” with a North Clare councillor claiming that only the swings are functioning properly.
