The Clare Champion Clare news, sport, entertainment and local notes
Gardaí in Kilrush seized €40,000 worth of drugs in the town on Wednesday morning.
Read More »Bypass to slash Galway commute
Commuters travelling from Clare to Galway could have as much as two and a half hours extra free time each week when the new Gort to Crusheen bypass opens next month.
Read More »Black Thursday in the Shannon Region
Last week, two well-established companies in Shannon announced 207 job cuts. Owen Ryan reports.
Read More »Public urged not to pour fuel on bonfire costs
BONFIRE-related calls to Clare Fire and Rescue Services over the Hallowe’en period last year cost over €11,000, as people are urged not to use bonfires to dispose of domestic waste this weekend.
Read More »Financial decisions will ring through the ages
COMMENTTHE Government is just as likely to take the wrong decisions on the economy now as to take the right ones.
Read More »72 unfinished estates in the county
AS Hallowe’en approaches, the spectre of ghost estates lingers across the county. According to the National Survey of Ongoing Housing Developments published this week by the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Clare has a total of 72 unfinished housing estates, of which work is ongoing at just eight.
Read More »Council to survey Mullagh road levels
Clare County Council engineers will conduct a survey of the door and windowsill level of houses in the centre of Mullagh village to try and resolve an issue concerning different levels on the main street.
Read More »Fianna Fáil Conference
COMMENTWOULDN’T you just love to be a fly on the wall at the Clare Fianna Fáil regional conference at the West County Hotel in Ennis on Saturday, where grassroots members will have an opportunity to engage with ministers, TDs and senators who, in a matter of weeks, will be voting through a budget that is certain cause extreme hardship to many sections of society.Given Fianna Fáil’s embarrassingly low ratings in the latest opinion polls, there won’t be too much of a spring in the step of the foot soldiers as they converge on what is the first party conference of its kind in the Clare constituency.Clare Fianna Fáil Comhairle Dáil Cheantair chairman, Patrick Moloney, in a welcoming message, states that the conference “gives us the opportunity for bonding and meeting up with fellow party members from all units of the organisation”.Whatever about bonding among the rank and file members, the elected representatives can hardly expect to feel any great warmth.On …
Read More »