Clare TDs differ over Aer Lingus meetings
WITH the dust settling after the Aer Lingus announcement of job losses and pay cuts for staff, Clare TDs met with the airline’s director of corporate affairs, Enda Corneille this week. Fianna Fáil TD Timmy Dooley met Mr Corneille on Tuesday and was told that Dublin isn’t doing better than Shannon in terms of transatlantic flights, the sector of business where the airline is making its biggest losses.
Read More »Splash landing plans for East Clare
Three Clare men and a Cork man are aiming to lead the way with an innovative aviation initiative, which could see charter seaplanes operating out of Mountshannon in East Clare by 2010 and could generate up to 60 jobs nationally. Harbour Air Ltd has lodged the first of a series of planning applications to develop a seaplane tourism business.
Read More »Railway houses may be flattened
If the West Clare Railway is to establish a link from Kilrush to Moyasta and then on towards Kilkee, Cross Fine Gael county councillor Gabriel Keating has predicted that houses may have to be flattened and right-of-ways extinguished if the scope of the railway line is to be successfully extended.
Read More »Kyle’s debt to Crumlin Children’s Hospital
ON Wednesday November 2, 2006, the then five-year-old Kyle Carmody sustained between 12% and 15% bodily burns when his pyjamas caught fire at the family home in Monvana, Kilrush.
Read More »46 jobs to go at Shannon Airport
ALMOST 50 jobs are to go at Shannon Airport as Sky Handling partners are to shed 26 employees, with Servisair likely to make 20 people redundant.
Read More »Aer Lingus leaves 102 cabin crew stranded
OVER 100 cabin crew jobs are set to go from Shannon, under Aer Lingus’ cost-saving plans revealed last week. Senior Aer Lingus officials, including CEO Christoph Mueller, came to the Oakwood Arms last Thursday where they met with the airline’s Shannon-based employees.
Read More »‘Oxometer’ leads to confusion for regional authority
PJ Kelly-speak is gradually being infused into the proceedings of the Mid-West Regional Authority but it occasionally baffles councillors unfamiliar with the new Clare addition to the authority.
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