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99 Patients On Clare Mental Health Waiting Lists In November - Clare FM

99 Patients On Clare Mental Health Waiting Lists In November - Clare FM

Clare FM — A Clare councillor is calling on the government to urgently increase investment in mental health supports. At the end of November, 99 people in this county were waiting for an appointment with the Child and Adolescent Services. 87 of this number were waiting in West Clare, while 12 were on the list in East Clare, ...

Vigil To Take Place At UHL Today For Victims Of Overcrowding - Clare FM

Vigil To Take Place At UHL Today For Victims Of Overcrowding - Clare FM

Clare FM — A Candlelit Vigil will take place at University Hospital Limerick this afternoon for victims of the overcrowding crisis. The event, organised by the MidWest Hospital Campaign, will take place at the gates of the Dooradoyle facility at 2pm. Up to August this year , 3,200 patients left the Dooradoyle facility without completing their full episodes ...

New Clare Pilot Programme Will Aim To Transform Tourist Accommodation - Clare FM

New Clare Pilot Programme Will Aim To Transform Tourist Accommodation - Clare FM

Clare FM — A new pilot project to be launched in this county will aim to deliver a unique solution to tourist accommodation shortages.

Council Calls On Government To Expedite Gambling Regulation - Clare FM

Council Calls On Government To Expedite Gambling Regulation - Clare FM

Clare FM — Clare County Council will write to the Department of Justice to call for the Gambling Regulation Bill to be introduced as soon as possible

Shannon Airport Passenger Traffic Up 32% In Last Twelve Months - Clare FM

Shannon Airport Passenger Traffic Up 32% In Last Twelve Months - Clare FM

Clare FM — Passenger traffic at Shannon Airport soared by 32% over the last twelve months.

Clare Coach Operator Confident New EU Regulations Will Provide Business Boost - Clare FM

Clare Coach Operator Confident New EU Regulations Will Provide Business Boost - Clare FM

Clare FM — A Clare Coach Operator is confident that new European Parliament Proposals on driver rest time will significantly enhance tourism opportunities.

Application Submitted For Salt And Grit Bins In All Clare Schools - Clare FM

Application Submitted For Salt And Grit Bins In All Clare Schools - Clare FM

Clare FM — An application has been submitted for funding that would install salt and gritting bins at all Clare schools. It follows a raft of reports from constituents in recent weeks of children slipping, falling and sustaining injuries on footpaths and shared walking surfaces due to seasonally hazardous icy conditions.

Frustration In Miltown Malbay Over Pre-Christmas Water Outages - Clare FM

Frustration In Miltown Malbay Over Pre-Christmas Water Outages - Clare FM

Clare FM — Businesses in Miltown Malbay have expressed serious frustration over water disruption in the town and surrounding areas in the run up to Christmas.

Lisdoonvarna Confirmed As First Irish Village To Benefit From Rural GP Programme - Clare FM

Lisdoonvarna Confirmed As First Irish Village To Benefit From Rural GP Programme - Clare FM

Clare FM — Lisdoonvarna has become the first settlement in Ireland to be selected for the rural GP fellowship programme. Earlier this year, Dr Jim Collins retired, leaving the village and its catchment area without a general practioner. Now under a new two-year pilot initiative, a graduate doctor will take up residence in the North Clare region, operating ...

Calls For Clarity On Job Security At Popular Shannon Supermarket Ahead Of Major Development - Cla...

Calls For Clarity On Job Security At Popular Shannon Supermarket Ahead Of Major Development - Cla...

Clare FM — Concern is being expressed over potential job losses at a prominent Clare supermarket. It comes as the Dealz discount store in the Sky Court Shopping Centre in Shannon is set to close temporarily for renovations. The news has led to speculation locally, that the store will be downsized and replaced by another chain, while Sky ...

Clare Disability Campaigners Take To The Streets In Bid To End Inequality - Clare FM

Clare Disability Campaigners Take To The Streets In Bid To End Inequality - Clare FM

Clare FM — A large crowd of campaigners have taken to the streets of Ennis this lunchtime calling for a permanent end to the inequality facing the disabled community.

Victims Of Domestic Abuse In Clare Urged To Take Precautions This Christmas - Clare FM

Victims Of Domestic Abuse In Clare Urged To Take Precautions This Christmas - Clare FM

Clare FM — Victims of domestic abuse in Clare are being called upon to set an escape plan in motion and be prepared to break free if necessary this Christmas.

Ennis-Based Gaza Resident Calls For Immediate Halt To War On Humanity - Clare FM

Ennis-Based Gaza Resident Calls For Immediate Halt To War On Humanity - Clare FM

Clare FM — A resident of Gaza, who moved to Clare just weeks before fighting broke out in the enclave, is calling on the international community to end the horrors facing his people. Husam Malaka says his wife and child are barely surviving, after fleeing to the city of Khan Yunis, where they spent over a month trapped ...

Kilkee Woman To Be Honoured With Oireachtas Human Dignity Award Today - Clare FM

Kilkee Woman To Be Honoured With Oireachtas Human Dignity Award Today - Clare FM

Clare FM — A West Clare woman will become the seventh Irish Citizen to be honoured with the Oireachtas Human Dignity Award this afternoon. Originally from Kilkee, Sr.Catherine Lillis worked with child victims of drug abuse in Dublin, directed a medical clinic in Myanmar, and set up a rehabilitation hospital in Egypt for soldiers paralysed in conflict with ...

Ennis Ukrainian Native Concerned Refugees Will Be Unable To Source Accommodation In Clare Rental ...

Ennis Ukrainian Native Concerned Refugees Will Be Unable To Source Accommodation In Clare Rental ...

Clare FM — A Ukrainian woman living in Ennis claims the new government supports for refugees from her country are a positive step. As part of measures signed off by cabinet this week, new Ukrainian arrivals will have to their weekly welfare rate cut from €220 to the standard Asylum Seeker rate of €38.80.

Fresh Appeal Lodged With An Bord Pleanála Against Controversial Cahermurphy Wind Farm Project - C...

Fresh Appeal Lodged With An Bord Pleanála Against Controversial Cahermurphy Wind Farm Project - C...

Clare FM — A fresh appeal has been lodged with An Bord Pleanála against the Cahermurphy II Wind Farm. The controversial project had been refused planning permission in March, before the board's decision was quashed by order of the High Court in October. The proposal for the wind farm on a 146 hectare site near Kilmihil was first ...

Clare Financial Advisor Claims Fully Targeted Supports Were Impossible In Budget 2024 - Clare FM

Clare Financial Advisor Claims Fully Targeted Supports Were Impossible In Budget 2024 - Clare FM

Clare FM — A Clare Financial Advisor has defended the government for focusing on universal rather than means tested supports in Budget 2024. In a formal response issued this week, budgetary watchdog IFAC has stated that 71% of the announced cost-of-living supports along with the confirmed income tax breaks were "untargeted."

Finance Minister Says Government Will Do All It Possibly Can To Ensure Sewerage Schemes For Broad...

Finance Minister Says Government Will Do All It Possibly Can To Ensure Sewerage Schemes For Broad...

Clare FM — The Minister for Finance insists that residents of both Cooraclare and Broadford will shortly receive clarity on proposed sewerage schemes. Despite numerous false dawns since January, neither village has received confirmation of their inclusion in a €50m government pilot programme aiming to connect unsewered rural settlements to wastewater infrastructure.

Candlelit Vigil At Ennis Court House In Remembrance Of Gender-Based Violence Victims - Clare FM

Candlelit Vigil At Ennis Court House In Remembrance Of Gender-Based Violence Victims - Clare FM

Clare FM — A former Clare Haven service user insists all victims of domestic abuse can realise their own worth. Over 40 people attended a candlelit vigil at Ennis Court House last night, to remember the 264 women, including nine from Clare who have been killed violently in Ireland since 1996.

Clare Company Director Reaches Settlement Of Over €132,000 With Revenue For Under Declaration Of ...

Clare Company Director Reaches Settlement Of Over €132,000 With Revenue For Under Declaration Of ...

Clare FM — Four Clare people entered the tax defaulters list in the third quarter of the year. Three residents have been fined €2,500 for the misuse of marked mineral oil, including a plant hire operative in Kilmihil and two individuals whose occupations are unknown to revenue with addresses at St.Michael's Park, Ballymaley Ennis.

Council Endorses Embargo Of Israeli Goods Along With Calls For Immediate Humaintarian Ceasefire I...

Council Endorses Embargo Of Israeli Goods Along With Calls For Immediate Humaintarian Ceasefire I...

Clare FM — Clare County Council has endorsed calls for a trade embargo on Israeli goods as well as an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. It follows a proposal passed at this months meeting of the local authority, which sought an unequivocal condemnation of the bombardment of innocent civilians in the enclave, along with an appeal ...

Brú Na Sionna Resident Hopeful Long Running Nightmare Finally Coming To An End - Clare FM

Brú Na Sionna Resident Hopeful Long Running Nightmare Finally Coming To An End - Clare FM

Clare FM — A resident of a defective Celtic Tiger apartment in Shannon is hopeful her long running nightmare is finally coming to an end. The Department of Housing has this week launched the Interim Remediation Scheme, in which, the Owner Management Companies of affected complexes built between 1991 and 2013 can directly apply for funding for emergency ...

Clare Independent TD Says "Justice Minister Confidence Vote Is A Complete Waste Of Dáil Time" - C...

Clare Independent TD Says "Justice Minister Confidence Vote Is A Complete Waste Of Dáil Time" - C...

Clare FM — A Clare Independent TD has described a motion of confidence in the Justice Minister as "a complete waste of Dáil time". The Government looks set to comfortably win the motion later today, which arises out of a Sinn Féin motion of no confidence in Minister Helen McEntee.

UL Hospitals Group Accused Of Deliberately Diverting Attention From Overcrowding Crisis - Clare F...

UL Hospitals Group Accused Of Deliberately Diverting Attention From Overcrowding Crisis - Clare F...

Clare FM — The UL Hospitals Group has been accused of deliberately attempting to ignore the consequences of overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick. Based on parameters compiled by medical experts analysing the NHS in 2019, The MidWest Hospitals Campaign believes that "a minimum of 514 patients have died due to delays at Dooradoyle's Emergency Department since last June."
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