*The post office at the Market in Ennis is to close. 300 post offices are facing closure without the assistance of State funding, a Clare postmaster has said.
*The Hyrdo Hotel in Lisdoonvarna is one of the accommodation providers hosting refugees. AN EXIT STRATEGY is needed with a clear timeline on when Clare hotels and accommodation providers used to house asylum seekers and refugees can return to the tourism market.
*Shannon Airport. SHANNON AIRPORT needs to fight back against a potential lifting of the passenger cap at Dublin Airport, councillors in Clare have argued.
*Fr Harry Bohan. Photograph: Eamon Ward. TRADITION has hurling on par with religion in the village of Feakle according to Fr Harry Bohan.
*Photograph: John Mangan A SENIOR OFFICIAL in Clare County Council has said the Ennis public realm works “will not be a Children’s Hospital mark two”.
*Oisin Whelan of Clarecastle. Photograph: Chris Copley CLARECASTLE are to consider taking an appeal to ‘a higher authority’ over the grading process followed by Clare GAA for the U21 hurling championship.
*Photograph: John Mangan ADDITIONAL playgrounds are needed across Ennis and surrounding areas, elected representatives have said
*Cllr Tommy Guilfoyle (SF). Photograph: Chris Copley AN APPEAL has made for a biodiversity study and action plan to be carried out for the Corrovorrin River.
*Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly (FF). Photograph: Brian Arthur HIQA’s review into the potential for a second emergency department in the Mid-West region must be published before next summer, county councillors have stressed.
*Ennis Hospital. HEALTH activists and politicians in Clare have said it is “inevitable” that a HIQA review will recommend the creation of a second emergency department in the Mid-West region.
