*Journalist and proud Townie Joe Ó Muircheartaigh embraces Aaron Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare’s first citizen was forced to remind elected representatives that they were attending a meeting of the County Council and not the County Board at this month’s sitting.
Senior officials in Clare County Council have disputed claims that there is a crisis in the County Fire and Rescue Service.
Construction of the Killaloe Bypass and Shannon Bridge Crossing has been signalled as “the single most biggest influence on the entire community of East Clare”.
Almost a decade on from becoming the first local authority in the country to introduce a ban on fracking, Clare County Council has now called on the Government to introduce a global ban.
*Cllr Alan O’Callaghan. Photograph: Eamon Ward. An East Clare councillor has said he is counting down the days until elected representatives don’t have to be looking for speed surveys.
A seven month delay to the completion of the Clare County Development Plan has been agreed by local councillors.
*Photograph: Colm Nestor ‘Thronging crowds’ to Two Mile Gate have been welcomed as staycationers continue to choose Clare as their go-to destination while renewed appeals for traffic calming by the amenity and in Ogonnelloe have been lodged.
Discussions are to be held on the possibilities of County Councils in Clare and Tipperary entering a shared partnership when it comes to services in Killaloe and Ballina.
Work has begun on the clearing of overgrown bushes and weeds between St Anne’s Community College and Clarisford in Killaloe.
A road junction adjacent to a primary school in Killaloe and the grounds of Smith O’Briens GAA club has been labelled “a death trap waiting to happen”.
