An East Clare councillor claims it will be a “new low for public service in Ireland” if Uisce Éireann can’t prove it can provide clean drinking water. It follows an EPA audit of the O’Briensbridge Water Treatment Plant, which found that residents of the village were consuming inadequately disinfected water for 12 months, before a […]
A cloud of sadness is said to have descended over South East Clare today following the recovery of a body from the water last night. Shortly before 11pm on Thursday, the Coast Guard mounted a search for a man reported missing in the Killaloe area. Following an extensive search a body was located beneath a […]
ESB has been accused of “disregarding the people” amid continued reports of public lighting outages across Clare. East Clare is the latest part of the county where streetlight blackouts have been observed, following similar complaints in Shannon, Ennis and various other communities in recent months. Killaloe Municipal District has stated that many public streetlights in […]
A former Mayor of Clare is expressing concern over what he’s described as a lack of urgency by Uisce Eireann to lift local boil water notices. Homes and businesses served by the Killaloe water supply have been told to boil water before use for almost six weeks now, with the alert issued on September 17th, […]
A former Mayor of Clare has expressed doubts that a proposed CCTV survey of an East Clare village will resolve the “serious” flooding issues in the area. At this month’s meeting of the Killaloe Municipal District, Fianna Fáil Councillor Tony O’Brien called for works to be “carried out urgently in O’Briensbridge to prevent flooding of […]