MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT, Eamon Ryan (GP) has committed that the cost dispute delaying the transfer of Shannon Heritage sites to Clare County Council “will be agreed very shortly” but insisted the local authority can’t ‘give figures and walk away’.
*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.
*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.
Cathal Crowe talking at the Shannon Heritage Workers Protest at Bunratty Folk Park. Photograph: Natasha Barton A FUNDING PACKAGE for the transfer of Shannon Heritage sites to Clare County Council is to be announced “soon”, a Clare TD has promised.
*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.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL has confirmed it is pulling the plug, for now, on its bid to take over the ownership of three heritage sites and a retail outlet in the county currently owned by Shannon Airport Group.
*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: Gerard O’Neill CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL have reiterated their stance that they cannot take over the ownership of four tourism sites in the county from Shannon Airport Group unless it receives a funding package to the tune of €15m from the Government.
*Cllr Gerry Flynn with Shannon Heritage workers at a recent demonstration. Photograph: Natasha Barton SHANNON AIRPORT GROUP have been slammed by county councillors for running the infrastructure at Bunratty Castle & Folk Park fall into “into the ground”.
