*”A major culture change is needed,” Cllr Pat Burke (FG) believed. Photograph: Ruth Griffin AN APPROXIMATE BUDGET of €53,000 has been allocated to the Killaloe Municipal District for hedge cutting this year.
A KILLALOE “rat run” is to be subject to a speed survey to determine if it fits the bill for low cost safety improvement funding.
*Holy Island (Inis Cealtra). EAST CLARE TOURISM is set to be put on the map following the allocation of funding to create a visitor centre at Holy Island (Inis Cealtra).
SPEEDING outside the national school and playground in Kilkishen remains “an issue the whole time,” an elected representative has lamented while leading the call for speed ramps in the East Clare village.
*Safe Routes to Schools are among the eligible criteria for Active Travel funding. €4.5M OF A €5.9M of an allocation for Active Travel will be spent in Clare by the end of this year, local authority officials have insisted.
*Criticism of the pace of the NBP’s delivery in Clare was voiced by county councillors. DELAYS with the roll-out of broadband as part of the €2.9bn National Broadband Plan have been criticised by Clare councillors with NBI officials admitting they are eleven months off where they had intended to be at the start of the …
*Photograph: Ruth Griffin REDEVELOPMENT of an old convent and primary school building in Tulla into a cultural hub has been described by one Minister as “a gamechanger” for the locality.
VISIBILITY of speed signs in Clooney have come under the microscope.
SPEED RAMPS are unlikely to be included in proposed road resurfacing in O’Briensbridge.
AN ‘OPPORTUNIST’ could save Clare County Council from spending “hundreds of thousands of euros” on an overflow car park by one of East Clare’s most popular tourist amenities.
