CLARE County Council has issued approximately 215 legal notices in relation to illegal Traveller encampments in Ennis and its environs over the last two years, resulting in serious and ongoing financial and human resource implications.
Read More »Loop Head Peninsula without a garda station
THE closure of Carrigaholt Garda Station has left the peninsula villages of Carrigaholt, Cross and Kilbaha without a permanent garda presence.
Read More »Bhamjee seeks tighter alcohol restrictions
A FORMER mental health professional has called for tighter restrictions on the sale of alcohol to young people in an effort to curb increases in depression.
Read More »Paris flight fails to get off the ground
THE performance of Aer Lingus’ Shannon-Paris and Shannon-Gatwick services has led to the routes being discontinued in 2012.
Read More »Killaloe District Court takes up new residence in public house as Shannon court is no more
A NUMBER of changes for the courts in the county are due to come into effect in the New Year and will include Killaloe Court taking up residence at a public house and restaurant.
Read More »Budget targeted low to middle-income people – McDonald
THE Budget didn’t tackle job creation but rather targeted low and middle-income people particularly in rural areas, according to Sinn Féin Deputy Mary Lou McDonald.
Read More »Decrease in school counselling will see escalation in psychiatric problems
CHANGES to the way guidance counsellors are allocated in post-primary schools could result in greater numbers of young people presenting at psychiatric outpatient clinics, it was claimed this week.
Read More »Peadar McNamara – a man who made a difference
TEACHER, activist, artist, trade unionist, singer. The late Peadar McNamara was a lot of things to a lot of people, but to his family he was simply ‘Dad’.
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