*Photograph: Paschal Brooks CLARE COUNCILLORS have unanimously backed a €6m offer from Government which will see the County Council boost its tourism offering and take over ownership of four Shannon Heritage sites.
*Monday will see a special meeting of Clare County Council held. A FORMAL MEETING of Clare County Council will be held this Monday where it is expected the local authority will announce its intention to accept the deal offered by Government to transfer the Shannon Heritage sites.
*Bunratty Castle & Folk Park is among the sites now set to come under the Council’s control. AN AGREEMENT HAS BEEN reached to transfer the ownership of the four Shannon Heritage sites in the county to Clare County Council.
Photograph: Paschal Brooks AN END IS IN SIGHT for the transfer of Shannon Heritage sites to Clare County Council.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CRUNCH MEETINGS are being held by Council and Department officials on the proposed transfer of Shannon Heritage’s Clare assets.
*Cathal Crowe addresses Shannon Heritage workers. Photograph: Natasha Barton RENEWED CONFIDENCE has been expressed by a Clare TD that “appropriate funding and a satisfactory resolution” is on the way for the transfer of Shannon Heritage sites to Clare County Council.
*Pictured loading up toys donated as part of the Bunratty Castle & Folk Park ‘Giving Tree’ initiative are: (l-r) – Annie Casey, Fiona Kilderry, Clair McNamara, Adrian Garvey, Anita O’Loughlin, Marie Brennan, Deirdre Purtill, Kathleen Minogue, Mary Burke, Helen Hehir, Pauline Quinn and Monica Lyons. HUNDREDS of toys donated by the public at Bunratty Castle …
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*Families enjoying Bunratty Castle & Folk Park. CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL have returned to negotiations over the transfer of Shannon Heritage sites with “a Cabinet decision” needed for the local authority to assume responsibility of the tourism attractions.
*Cathal Crowe at the Shannon Heritage Workers Protest at Bunratty Folk Park. Photograph: Natasha Barton A CLARE TD has insisted he “didn’t get it wrong” on the transfer of the Shannon Heritage sites despite promising “a good deal for workers” before Christmas which later transpired as the Government offering Clare County Council a sixth of …
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*Bunratty Castle. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A CLARE TD has said Shannon Airport Group should have to step up and help contribute financially to facilitate a transfer of Shannon Heritage sites to Clare County Council.
