*Tommy Guilfoyle. Photograph: John Mangan ENNIS’ five sitting councillors should be returned with Sinn Féin likely to take one of the two remaining seats in the Ennis Municipal District, a departing councillor has predicted.
*John O’Connor addresses the crowd in Ennis. Photograph: John Mangan “TOGETHER WE can Save Ennis Town” was the rallying call issued at a demonstration in the heart of the county town on Saturday afternoon.
*Candidates in the Ennis Municipal District who attended The Electoral Chair election debate. POLLING DAY is less than a month away and as part of The Clare Echo’s build-up to the local elections, The Electoral Chair has kicked off election debates in all of the electoral areas.
*Finbarr MacGabhann and Cllr Donna McGettigan (SF). SINN FÉIN’s members are feeling aggrieved with the lack of consultation on the selection of candidates for the local elections.
*An artist’s impression of the Post Office Field. TWO ELECTION hopefuls in the Ennis Municipal District have criticised the manner in which the public consultation was handled for the proposed Post Office Field with one insisting they would try to disband Ennis 2040 DAC if elected.
*Photograph: John Mangan SENIOR OFFICIALS in Clare County Council refused to be drawn on who carried out the demolition works on Francis Street for the county’s first affordable housing scheme.
*Tommy Guilfoyle. Photograph: Chris Copley TOMMY GUILFOYLE has been selected as Sinn Féin’s candidate in the Ennis Municipal District for the 2024 local elections.
*Tommy Guilfoyle, Louise O’Reilly, Donna McGettigan, James Ryan in Shannon. Photograph: Joe Buckley. A LEADING SINN Féin TD has said Violet-Anne Wynne (IND) did not reach out to her prior to her exit from the party and has not ruled out two General Election candidates running in Co Clare.
*Members of Sinn Féin’s Ennis cumann. Photograph: John Mangan SINN FÉIN are gearing up for next year’s local elections in Clare and hope to field a total of eight candidates across the county.
*Councillors were not briefed before the Ennis 2040 DAC appointed the design team. PLANS FOR A TEMPORARY car park in Francis Street have been scrapped altogether with a design team appointed to develop a masterplan for a mixed-use development on the site.
