Clare’s Oireachtas members have received an open letter, imploring them to table a motion of no confidence in the management of the UL Hospitals Group. The document penned by the Friends of Ennis Hospital Campaign also requests unequivocal support for the reopening of the county town’s former A&E and for UHL’s executive body to appear […]
An East Clare Oireachtas member believes Ireland is making slow progress when it comes to the delivery of offshore wind energy. The Shannon Economic Taskforce’s report published in June of this year found that this region has the potential to harvest 30GW of offshore green electricity by 2050. Mountshannon Senator Timmy Dooley has called on […]
Its claimed amendments to the county development plan must be urgently reversed to prevent the demise of rural Clare. It follows a special meeting of the local authority, during which this county’s Oireachtas members have pledged to take action, after the Minister of State for Planning deemed that parts of the plan were ‘inconsistent with […]
Clare’s Oireachtas members have been urged to do whatever’s necessary to reverse a ministerial directive preventing lands in the county from being designated for residential use. It comes one month after Minister of State at the Department of Housing Kieran O’Donnell issued a directive ordering the local authority to rezone twenty subject lands previously earmarked […]
77 refugees are to be accommodated in Scariff in the coming weeks. The Lakelands Hotel is the site being planned to house “families, couples and single females” with the facility set to be opened in June. It is understood further information will be made public prior to their arrival in East Clare. Clare’s Oireachtas […]