Eamon Odea News Today

Clare’s Green Party Senator insists the delivery of the Ennis Town Bus Service should be the National Transport Authority’s top priority. It follows confirmation from Senior Executive Enginner with the Ennis Municipal District, Eamon O’Dea that while discussions are ongoing about the level of funding to be allocated to the service, he’s confident the Town […]

It’s claimed the highly-anticipated Ennis Town Bus Service is still on course to receive government funding despite suggestions to the contrary. Former Mayor of Ennis Johnny Flynn made suggestions last week that TII funding for the project, which would traverse Ennis from the Lahinch Road to the Tulla Road and from Clarecastle to Ballymaley, is […]

Concerns have been raised that developing on Ennis's riverside car parks could run the risk of major flooding damage in the years to come.

THE ability of Clarecastle’s coastal flood barrage, built in the middle of the last century, to protect Ennis and its surroundings needs to be examined “urgently” a local councillor has insisted.

FIVE Ennis teenagers have got making European connections down to a fine art. Alysha Casey Hanrahan, Mahia Rahman, Gabrielle Cullinan, Eimear Fitzgerald and Cameron O'Grady have travelled to Germany for an international meeting of young people at Ennis’ twin town of Langenfeld.

NARROW ‘pinch points’ along a popular cycling route on the Shannon Estuary Way pose a danger, according to one local councillor who has called for warning signs to be introduced.

DRIVERS are “taking risks every single day” at a notorious road junction in Ennis, with one councillor likening it to “Russian Roulette”.

DISCUSSIONS need to be had with landowners in a bid to find a solution to “major traffic congestion on a daily basis” at a popular school on the outskirts of Ennis, according to a local councillor.

A MAN has been struck twice by passing cars on a stretch of local road which sees motorists engage in “games of cat and mouse” prompting calls by Ennis councillors for the introduction of a temporary reduced speed limit.

CHANGING the proposed zoning designation of Spancilhill from a ‘cluster’ to a ‘small village’ in the Clare County Development Plan would help reduce speed limits and address “dangerous levels” of traffic speeding which has split the community in two, a meeting of councillors has been told.