*A section of the crowd in Sixmilebridge. LARGE CROWDS turned out in Sixmilebridge on Monday evening at a heated public meeting seeking the removal of a campervan from a local housing estate.
*Helga Himmelsbach. Photograph: John Mangan NORTH CLARE locals blocked off access to Ballyvaughan for under half an hour for the second time in the space of a week as part of their efforts to seek better road conditions.
AGED and damaged water mains along the main street of Clonlara are to be upgraded.
*Broadford. BROADFORD and Cooraclare’s inclusion in a pilot scheme for sewage infrastructure in rural villages has been dealt a setback.
*David Griffin. Photograph: Joe Buckley FIANNA FÁIL have been unable to secure a candidate in Shannon Town for the fourth local election in a row but they have been boosted by the nomination of two young candidates within the Shannon Municipal District.
*Photograph: John Mangan €2.5m has been allocated in funding to Clare County Council to tackle vacancy and dereliction.
*Brendan Ryan told the meeting buildings owned by the parish should be considered. Photograph: Joe Buckley PREMISES TO HAVE a GP service in the village of Newmarket-on-Fergus are being examined but the community should not be made go “cap in hand” to the HSE.
*Criticism of the GP’s absence from Monday’s public meeting was heard. Photograph: Joe Buckley MINISTER FOR HEALTH, Stephen Donnelly (FF) has met with representative of the Newmarket-on-Fergus Community Forum on the future of a GP in the parish while TDs have said the contract with the current GP should be revoked if plans to take …
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*A section of the crowd at the public meeting in Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Joe Buckley NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS needs a medical service fitting of its big and growing population, a public meeting has heard.
*Dr Martina Cleary. REGULATIONS that will lead to the approval of redress for pyrite-impacted homeowners in Clare have been signed off on by the Minister for Housing while the companies responsible for selling defective concrete blocks must now be pursued according to activists and politicians.
