A dispute arising out of Irish international soccer player Shane Long’s transfer from Reading FC to West Bromwich Albion has come before the High Court.

Tommy Barker finds that Glanmire Rectory fits the ‘one of the best in town’ bill as demand for high-end homes makes a remarkable recovery.

Clare County Council yesterday announced a comprehensive plan relating to the tourism development and visitor management of the “Jewel of The Lough Derg” in Co Clare, Holy Island.

Clare County Council is to make an audacious bid to have the University of Limerick (UL) renamed the University of County Clare and Limerick.

Almost four decades after last hosting the event, Ennis, Co Clare, will finally get its chance to stage Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in 2016.

This 1950’s bungalow bought in 2011 for its location, has doubled in size, going up the quality scale in multiples too. 

A late reprieve has been granted to stop the bulldozing of a disabled elderly couple’s home to make way for a new road.

The man who turned down the plan for five Garth Brooks concerts at Croke Park is the top earner among local authority staff.

Location: Douglas, Cork €2.75million

A return to Cork City was always something Billy Dennehy envisaged.

Clare County Council has revised upwards its flood repair bill by 55% to €36.8m as a result of further damage brought about by the recent storms.

Clare County Council will spend some €50,000 on emergency flood defences along a stretch of coastline worst affected by storms earlier this month, but over €2.5m will be required to complete permanent protection measures.

The Government is facing bills of over €46m from Clare and Kerry councils for the damage caused by the storms that ravaged the counties.

Thousands have been left without power, roads have been ripped up and isolated homes have been cut off from the mainland after storms ravaged the country.

A plan for the Shannon Estuary was launched yesterday, identifying key strategic locations to help further advance the development of the waterway for maritime-based industry and tourism.

A Clare school principal has intervened in a bid to secure emergency accommodation for a Traveller family living in “sub-human living conditions”.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was yesterday accused of “intimidating” Clare County Council staff at their homes into giving witness statements as part of a failed prosecution by the agency.

The thousands of litter louts that have littered beaches during the recent heatwave are to escape any ‘name and shame’ sanction.

The former landmark Ard Rí hotel and grounds in Waterford city, bought for a reported €15m in 2006 for a proposed €400m mixed use development, has been put on the market for €750,000.

Clare County Council will launch a standalone town plan for Shannon today which includes the zoning of a 2,000-acre landbank for aviation-related business and activities.

Mid-West business bodies have welcomed a decision to give Shannon Airport full independence from the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).

As Transport Minister Leo Varadkar finalises the government strategy for the future of Shannon Airport, Clare County Council said yesterday it will unveil its planning roadmap for the airport and Shannon Town on Dec 10.

The bill to the taxpayer keeps on mounting for a “road nowhere” in Co Clare.

The Department of the Environment has taken the unprecedented move of directing a local authority to reverse a rezoning due to concerns over a roost of rare and protected species of bats.

A local authority county manager is at loggerheads with the vast majority of his elected members over a housing zoning beside an internationally important site for a rare bat.

A Romanian national who was part of an organised system of predatory criminal activity in Cork was yesterday jailed for nine months.

RETURNING Cork City captain Dan Murray is happy to be back at a far better-run club than the one he was forced to leave just under two years ago.

A MOTHER-OF-12 is dreading “a sad, lonely Christmas” after her Traveller family is being forced to vacate a roadside encampment.

A LOSS-MAKING local authority is set to approve today almost €1 million to fund the activities of its councillors next year.

THERE were just eight days to go in the 2010 season and the new Cork City board were huddled over two laptops in the corner of the Turner’s Cross Tavern.

CLARE county manager Tom Coughlan has recommended that councillors not proceed with a flurry of last-minute rezoning for housing in the Ennis area.

CALLS were made last night for no further money to be spent on Traveller accommodation in Co Clare until new legislation is introduced.

A LOCAL authority was forced to spend an extra €450,000 on Traveller accommodation over its budget allocation following damage on sites and high legal costs for the first six months of the year.

THE members of Clare County Council last night stopped short of restoring the ‘iconic’ Ballyvaughan tourist sign in spite of impassioned pleas from councillors.

THE iconic Ballyvaughan signpost will be restored and given state-protected status if moves by members of Clare County Council are successful.

THE delivery of a flagship tourism project for Clare and a global logistics centre for Shannon are just two of the main aims contained in the Clare County Development Plan 2011-2017 launched yesterday.

DRAGONS’ Den star Sean Gallagher’s presidential hopes have received a major boost after Clare and Donegal county councils pledged to back his bid for the Áras.

CLARE’S mayor, Cllr Christy Curtin, last night spoke of the hurt his family has endured following the death of his nephew, Eoin Ryan.

WHEN first built back in 1897 the man who built Golden Grove planned to roll out a series of big, semi-detached contemporary family homes — contemporary to the Victorian era, that is.

THE distress being felt by businesses across Clare has resulted in arrears of €7.7 million in rates at the end of last year.

CONTENTIOUS plans to construct a €6 million pier at Doolin yesterday received the unanimous approval of Clare’s councillors in spite of concerns expressed by surfers.

CLARE’S county manager, Tom Coughlan, will recommend to councillors today plans for a contentious €6 million pier at Doolin.

THE mayor of Clare Cllr Christy Curtin is financing his own costs of representing the county for a week-long St Patrick’s Day trip to New York.