Shannon Industrial Estate unit won’t be used for asylum seekers
*Photograph: Joe Buckley OFFICIALS in the Department of Integration have scrapped plans to use a unit in the Shannon Industrial Estate for housing asylum seekers.
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Wynne raises Bark Beetle and Ash Dieback with new IFA forestry chair
*Clare Independent TD, Violet-Anne Wynne CLARE Independent TD, Violet-Anne Wynne has been raising issues forestry in County Clare with the new Executive of the Irish Farmers Association this week. Deputy Wynne was questioning the new IFA Executive team in a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food, and the Marine on Wednesday. The …
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Kilrush Judge tells 41 year old “it is time you got a full license” after facing driving offence breaches
*Kilrush Courthouse A judge has rejected a claim made by the partner of independent Clare TD, Violet Anne Wynne that he has yet to receive an email from the National Driver Licence Service (NDLS) inviting him to sit his driving test more than three years after he applied for the test. At Kilrush …
Judge adjourns sentencing after hearing that John Mountaine “in a holding pattern’ for driving test
*Photograph: John Mangan A JUDGE has further adjourned imposing sentence on the partner of Clare TD, Violet Anne Wynne (IND) for driving offences after being told that John Mountaine is “in a holding pattern” in his efforts to secure a driving test.
‘We want the whole thing scrapped’ – Clare Leader Forum opposed to Green Paper on Disability Reform
CLARE LEADER FORUM are calling for the Green Paper on Disability Reform to be scrapped.
Lynch leaps to defence of Council management following Wynne criticism in Dáil
*Cllr Ian Lynch. Photograph: Eamon Ward. A KILRUSH representative leapt to the defence of Clare County Council management following a recent scathing attack by a Clare TD in Dáil Éireann.
Pat Barry enters local election race as Independent candidate
*Pat Barry. RETIRED civil servant, Pat Barry (IND) has announced he will be contesting next year’s local elections as an Independent candidate in the Shannon Municipal District.
Justice Minister survives confidence motion – how Clare’s TDs voted
*Justice Minister, Helen McEntee walks the streets of Dublin flanked by Gardaí. MINISTER FOR JUSTICE, Helen McEntee (FG) has survived a confidence vote with two of the three Clare TDs present supporting the Government.
McNamara to vote no confidence in Justice Minister McEntee
*Independent Clare TD, Michael McNamara with Joe Saunders. Photograph: Natasha Barton CLARE TD, Michael McNamara (IND) has confirmed he will be voting no confidence in the Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee (FG).
‘Horrid’ abuse hurled at Gardaí as Clare reps seek swift introduction of bodycams
*Photograph: John Mangan MEASURES to protect Gardaí on duty need to be fast-tracked amid a horrendous level of abuse aimed in their direction.
