Dinny Gould, Susan Griffin, Kevin Hassett, Cllr Ian Lynch, Cllr Rita McInerney, Cllr Cillian Murphy, Michael Shannon, Alan Troy and Joseph Woulfe. WEST CLARE is certainly awake so far as political debates are concerned.
*Photograph: John Mangan SIXTEEN beach operatives will be employed by Clare County Council in North and West Clare during the 2024 summer season.
*Cllr Rita McInerney (FF). A SITTING councillor has said a political slurry spreading has tried to smear her name in advance of the local elections.
*Bill Chambers receives a piece of crystal from Cllr Rita McInerney (FF) flanked by Senator Timmy Dooley (FF) & Billy Kelleher (FF). RETIRED councillor Bill Chambers (FF) was honoured with a presentation by Fianna Fáil members in West Clare over the weekend.
*Cllr PJ Kelly. Photograph: Martin Connolly CLARE is to receive €2,079,722 as part of a nationwide extra allocation of €40m for repairs and improvement works on non-public rural roads and laneways under the Local Improvement Scheme (LIS).
ONGOING talk with landowners is essential regarding the development of the €80m West Clare Railway Greenway, a county councillor for the area has stressed.
*Clancy Park is now home of an illegal encampment. ENNIS RESIDENTS are “stressed and sleepless in a state of trauma” following the emergence of a new illegal encampment.
*Photograph: Eamon Ward 125 years of local democracy in Clare was acknowledged on Monday.
*An artist’s impression of the playground in Doonbeg. EFFORTS to develop a state of the art playground in Doonbeg will see a Volkswagen Tiguan raffled off in a draw to take place next month in West Clare.
*Peter O’Connell, Madeline Taylor-Quinn, Patrick Keane and Páraic McMahon. EIGHT CANDIDATES have declared for the elections in the Kilrush local electoral area, they along with the key issues for voters in West Clare are the focus for the second episode of our political podcast.
