*Posters for Bill Slattery went up earlier than permitted across North Clare. ELECTION mode kicked off in North Clare with one candidate in the Ennistymon local electoral area breaching the Litter Pollution Act by erecting posters early.
FOUR CLARE projects have been allocated a combined €1.1m in funding under the 2023 Town and Village Renewal Scheme.
*Leo Varadkar. Photograph: Brian Arthur LEO VARADKAR’s (FG) decision to step down as Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael will not result in an early General Election according to two of Clare’s Oireachtas members.
*Senator Martin Conway pictured with Simon Harris and Leo Varadkar while campaigning in Dublin in 2021. CLARE SENATOR, Martin Conway (FG) has backed Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris (FG) to become the next Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael.
*John Bruton canvassing with Martin Conway in Ennistymon in 1999. POLITICIANS in Clare have been paying tribute to former Taoiseach, John Bruton (FG) following his death on Tuesday.
A FRESH INVESTIGATION into the death of a Shannon teenager has been announced by the HSE.
*Ann Marie Flanagan and Padraic Hayes. MEMBERS of the Clare Leader Forum are set to lodge “a strong submission” against proposals in the Green Paper on Disability Reform.
*Helga Himmelsbach leads a remembrance walk for her beloved late husband Jerry O’Connor. Photograph: John Mangan A NORTH CLARE widow has pledged to pay for speed ramps herself if improvements to the area’s road network are not introduced.
*Limerick TD, Kieran O’Donnell (FG). CLARE TD, Cathal Crowe (FF) has told a special meeting of Clare County Council that the “door is not shut” on overturning a directive issued by a Junior Minister to dezone lands in the county.
*Michael McNamara TD and Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy. AN ENNIS COUNCILLOR raised eyebrows at a special meeting of Clare County Council this week with her remarks towards a Clare TD and a fellow barrister.
