*Photograph: Joe Buckley ONGOING FLOODING on the right-hand side of the car park in Illaunmanagh cemetery has led to staff in the burial grounds unit of Clare County Council committing to investigate the matter.
DECAYING FENCING at Shannon’s biggest graveyard is to be removed, local authority officials have confirmed.
OVERGROWTH along the River Walk in Shannon Town is hindering outsiders from partaking in the weekly Park Run, an elected representative has claimed.
WORKS TO COMBAT difficulties outside the county’s main crematorium and Shannon’s biggest graveyard are to be completed by early September while the “ethnic status” of Travellers gives them “massive power” and weakens the ability to clamp down on illegal encampments, a local authority meeting has heard.
INTERIM IMPROVEMENTS are to be carried out at the entrance to Illaunmanagh Graveyard while a decision is made on a proposal for Active Travel funding.
SHANNON is to officially begin hosting parkruns from the end of this month.
Concrete barriers erected in Illaunmanagh in response to an illegal encampment are to be re-examined.
Scenes in Shannon over the past week have been equated with “The Wild West”.
A safer design at the entrance of one of Shannon’s biggest graveyards and crematoriums has been sought.
Two men have been arrested following an incident in Shannon earlier this week.
