Biodiversity study sought for Corrovorrin River
*Cllr Tommy Guilfoyle (SF). Photograph: Chris Copley AN APPEAL has made for a biodiversity study and action plan to be carried out for the Corrovorrin River.
Tommy Guilfoyle
Publication of HIQA review on potential of second ED in Mid-West needs to be fast-tracked
*Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly (FF). Photograph: Brian Arthur HIQA’s review into the potential for a second emergency department in the Mid-West region must be published before next summer, county councillors have stressed.
‘Inevitable that HIQA will recommend opening of a second ED in the Mid-West’
*Ennis Hospital. HEALTH activists and politicians in Clare have said it is “inevitable” that a HIQA review will recommend the creation of a second emergency department in the Mid-West region.
Councillors vote to keep highest rate of property tax in Clare for another five years
*The vote was held at Monday’s meeting of Clare County Council. CLARE’S local property tax will remain at the highest rate after the majority of elected representatives agreed to retain it at fifteen percent above the standard rate for the next five years.
Ennis family ‘have gone through hell’ because of illegal encampment
*Photograph: Natasha Barton AN ENNIS family “have gone through hell” due to the presence of an illegal encampment, a Clare councillor has claimed.
Our Game sets the scene in Scariff with All-Ireland preview
SCARIFF is the setting for the Our Game Live All-Ireland hurling final preview on Thursday evening as anticipation ramps up for the meeting of Clare and Cork in Sunday’s showpiece event.
Council engineer to ‘bring hard hat’ when meeting Hermitage residents over surfacing complaints
*Photograph: John Mangan A COMMITMENT has been issued by the senior executive engineer in the Ennis Municipal District to meet with residents in Hermitage to discuss their frustrations over resurfacing works.
Campervans flouting the system in Lahinch – Slattery
*Cllr Bill Slattery (FG). Photograph: John Mangan CAMPERVANS are flouting the system in Lahinch by paying €20 to leave their vehicles abandoned in the coastal town, a county councillor has claimed.
‘We are not afraid of the monster under the bed or shadowy figures, we’re afraid of Cathal Crotty’
*Cathal Crotty. ARDNACRUSHA’s Cathal Crotty has been discharged from the Defence Forces and will be officially dismissed today (Thursday).
No building will commence for at least three years on Ennis car parks for 2040 plans as need for consensus stressed
*Works in Abbey Street for ‘the big dig’. Photograph: Ray Conway. A “heartening change” has emerged within Clare County Council with a greater appetite to listen to the views of others surrounding plans for Ennis 2040.