*Mary Kearney, Olivia Cullinan-Hickey and Sarah O’Neill. CLARECASTLE GAA has entered a new era with an all-female top table assuming the main positions within the club.
*Photograph: Ruth Griffin EXTRA Gardaí are to be on the beat in Ennis town over the festive period.
*Kilmorane on the N68 Kilrush Rd between Edenvale and Ballyea. DISCUSSION and concern is brewing in Ballyea over the vulnerability faced by road users.
*A full Harvey’s Quay car park in Ennis on Tuesday morning after 9am. Photograph: Páraic McMahon. ENNIS is short an estimated 240 spaces according to one councillor who said such a shortcoming is the equivalent of “€20m per annum lost for the local retail sector”.
*Clare County Council passed its Budget for 2026 this week. BUSINESSES across Clare are agitated with elected members and the Executive of Clare County Council following their decision to increase commercial rates by 8%.
*Ballaghboy. ENNIS politicians have said they are “duty-bound” to highlight the dangers for ‘unsupervised Traveller children’ who are at risk of an accident due to the absence of a footpath from the Quin Rd to the Ballaghboy site with principals describing it as “an accident waiting to happen”.
OVER 50 parking spaces are to be provided on a temporary basis at the Old Boys National School in Ennis for the Christmas shopping period.
*The proposal to make the Mill Rd has been scrapped. PLANS to introduce a one-way traffic system to the Mill Road and to alter the Gort Rd roundabout by Ennis Hospital, McDonald’s and Lynch’s Centra have been scrapped.
*The M18. 25 road collisions have occurred on the M18 and N18 over the past two months.
*Parnell Street. STREETS in Ennis town centre would make national headlines if ‘to let’ signs were placed on empty first and second floor buildings, a county councillor has claimed.