East Clare

Proposals to introduce a new traffic management plan for the town of Scariff are to be put out to further public consultation following material changes to the draft plan, a meeting of the Killaloe Electoral Area councillors has heard.

The Killaloe Garda District has lost two sergeants and two gardaí to retirements since June 1, with just two replacements being provided to fill these vacancies.

Vodafone customers in East Clare, particularly in areas of North East Clare, remain without network coverage arising from the relocation of a mast site in Maghera to a new location.

An American couple who came to East Clare to trace their lineage leave the county this week with a lot more than they bargained for thanks to the assistance of many strangers but whom they now call friends.

ALTHOUGH St Joseph’s Secondary School, Tulla awaits the development of its new school, the facility has this year benefitted from an additional class, which will cater for the needs of six new students with special needs. St Joseph’s has an existing Asperger’s Syndrome Unit in the school but this school term a second class was established to cater for the growing need in the school’s catchment area. It is one of the few schools in the country to benefit from the establishment of a new classroom for students with special needs. School principal Margaret O’Brien outlined that students with Asperger’s syndrome have varying needs and this new facility will help best suit the needs of the individual students benefiting from it. “Some students with this classification would be high functioning and need more support. We also wanted to accommodate some senior students and that’s why we have a new senior unit this year. We would have had some students who …

THE inconvenience experienced by residents waiting for the completion of improvement works on a 750m stretch of road at Spancilhill, at a cost of €2.9 million, has been deemed “regrettable” by Clare County Council this week.  The comment was made in response to a motion tabled at an Ennis East Area Meeting on Monday by Councillor Sonny Scanlon, who asked when the Spancilhill Road would be completed and reopened. He said works were “causing a lot of anger and inconvenience” to residents in the locality.  Tom Tiernan, senior engineer Clare County Council, said “the inconvenience that has been caused is regrettable”. “A number of issues have combined to create this situation, drainage management complexities, rock removal, the gradual erosion in the number of available staff and the incapacity to replace them and so on. The objective at present is to restore two-way traffic in four to six weeks from now and to have completed the project by the end of …

THE skies in Mountshannon have been the focal point for many this summer since the arrival of the white-tailed sea eagles and the seaplanes but this weekend the skies will be alive as the first air show over Lough Derg gets underway.

FOR the month of September and the first two weeks of October, Irish Seed Savers are offering free Apple Tasting Tours every Thursday at 2pm.