CLARE County Council is introducing the use of stationary and mobile CCTV surveillance at the county’s 53 bring banks in an effort to curb the misuse of the facilities.
Read More »Transport department mysterious on Shannon taskforce appointment
THE Department of Transport has not responded to questions from The Clare Champion regarding complaints made about the inclusion of an individual on one of the new taskforces dealing with Shannon’s future.
Read More »Vandals uproot Barefield’s Tidy efforts
BAREFIELD’S efforts for the Tidy Towns competition have been dealt a blow with vandals targeting their carefully planted flower arrangements in recent weeks.
Read More »Elderly woman is a ‘prisoner in her own home’
A WOMAN in her eighties is being made a prisoner in her own home and a lack of checks on people renting private accommodation is causing serious problems, it was claimed at the July meeting of Clare County Council.
Read More »Ulster Bank services to be back to normal from Monday
THE “extraordinarily difficult circumstances” of Clare’s Ulster Bank customers was highlighted at a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance Committee by Deputy Michael McNamara.
Read More »Knee deep
CLARE County Council stands indicted this week of breaking the very rules that it is empowered to uphold.
Read More »Same sex marriage is a civil right
THERE was a time when I would have been shocked if not disgusted at the thought of same sex marriage. It would never have entered my head that two men – or two women – could live together in a romantic relationship.
Read More »Banking on failure
THE only really remarkable thing about the recent case of crashed computers at Ulster Bank, Nat West and the Royal Bank of Scotland is that it hasn’t happened more often and to many other institutions around the world.
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