Regional

BOTH Ennis Development Forum and Ennis Chamber have joined forces in a bid to put Clare businesses back on the map by being the first county in Ireland to trade through the recession.

AN Ennis town councillor has stated he would welcome a retail development “if it was built in the parish church” so long as it would provide jobs for the town.

THE decision of Ennis Town Council to discontinue €50 a year parking concessions to HSE staff has been described as “heartless”.

THE cost of restoring one of the oldest inhabited buildings in Ennis, which features a rare Jacobean stone chimney, has been estimated at €230,000.

WORK may begin on the new Shannon Town Sewerage Scheme update towards the end of 2012, local area county councillors were informed this week.

SHANNON’S roads are in a bad state and need urgent action.

Clare County Council is supporting the principle of a major tourism development in a well-known Ogonnelloe estate, despite a ruling from An Bord Pleanála, which turned down a €100 million project.

People who want to visit a South-East Clare community are being directed to Galway because of its exclusion in official Ordinance Survey maps, it emerged this week.