*Donna Marie O’Neill and Dominic Haugh try to put across different points of view at the meeting. Photograph: Joe Buckley TENSIONS ESCALATED in Shannon on Saturday morning as members of the public gathered for a meeting to discuss plans to accommodate refugees in the town’s industrial estate.
A PUBLIC MEETING is to be held in Shannon today (Saturday) as locals seek answers on plans to use a large industrial building for emergency accommodation for refugees.
*Lorraine Carew. Photograph: Joe Buckley A SHANNON RESIDENT says she feels vindicated after the announcement of a €2.5bn defective building remediation scheme.
*Newmarket Celtic goalkeeper, Shane Cusack. Photograph: Oliver Fitzpatrick CLARE CLUBS, Avenue Utd and Newmarket Celtic have discovered their opponents for their respective last 16 ties in the FAI Junior Cup.
THE opening of a new aircraft maintenance facility, which will lead to the immediate creation of a further 25 jobs by Lufthansa Technik Turbine Shannon (LTTS), is one in a series of positive developments that underline Shannon’s revival as a driver of economic growth in the Mid-West region. That’s according to Clare Fine Gael TD …
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The inquiry into the death of Clare teenager Aoife Johnston at university hospital Limerick (UHL) is due to start “very shortly”. The 16-year-old Shannon schoolgirl died last month after contracting bacterial meningitis. She had spent a number of hours waiting on a trolley prior to her death at the hospital. The health services executive (HSE) …
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NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS’ Lee Devitt has committed to Treaty Utd for the coming season.
SHANNON STUDENT, Ella Hasty has become the first recipient of the Trane Technologies STEM Career Pathways Scholarship for female students.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley SHANNON’S COMMUNITY POLICING UNIT in tandem with local businesses dropped off Christmas meals to senior citizens across the town, Sixmilebridge, Cratloe and Newmarket-on-Fergus.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley PEOPLE IN HOMES damaged by pyrite “are living in purgatory,” a Kilrush councillor has claimed.
