*Lily Murphy Shannon Heritage Worker. Photograph: Natasha Barton SEVEN MONTHS AFTER a due diligence report was completed by Clare County Council on the Shannon Heritage sites, their future ownership remains in limbo.
OVER 1.51 million passengers were welcomed to Shannon Airport in 2022 but it remains shy of its 2019 levels.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill RETAINED LOSSES PRE-PANDEMIC OF €2.2m have been recorded for the Shannon Heritage sites under the operation of Shannon Airport Group.
*Shannon Heritage workers question Clare TD, Cathal Crowe (FF). Photograph: Natasha Barton IT WILL BE ‘ALL OR NOTHING’ so far as Government funding is concerned for Clare County Council if they are to take over the Shannon Heritage sites.
*Grainne Flynn and Mary Collins (Abbeyfeale) welcome home their sister and aunt Bríd, who just arrived in Shannon Airport having travelled home from Sydney via London Heathrow – her first time home since 2019. ALMOST 75,000 passengers are expected through to the doors of Shannon Airport for the festive season.
*Shannon Heritage workers protesting outside Bunratty Castle. Photograph: Natasha Barton NO CONTACT HAS BEEN made to Clare County Council by any Government Department or Shannon Airport Group since it announced its withdrawal from the planned transfer of Shannon Heritage absence in the absence of State funding.
FOUR FLIGHTS have diverted to Shannon Airport today (Monday).
*Quin Rd Business Park. SHANNON AIRPORT GROUP need to delay the sale of public areas and services in the Quin Road Business Park, elected representatives have stressed.
*Photograph: Paschal Brooks THE REPRESENTATIVE BODY for Clare’s tourism sector has warned of the infliction of “long-term damage” to the industry amid ongoing delays to the proposed transfer of assets operated by Shannon Heritage to Clare County Council.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley SCOPING A POTENTIAL green hydrogen plant in Shannon is to be explored as part of a new project which is among the first of its kind in the country.
