Clare County Council's audacious bid to twin with China

Clare County Council is to take a major step today in an unlikely twinning arrangement with the far flung land of the Yunnan province in China by agreeing to send a delegation there this spring.

Clare mayor John Crowe (FG) is set to lead the council delegation in the 16,000km round trip and said “the proposed twinning arrangement will be very, very beneficial to Clare and will put Clare’s name out there in China”.

He said the trip to Yunnan province “is the first leg of the twinning and will be about getting to know each other. We will try to sell what we have and this has the potential to be very big for Clare tourism and Shannon Airport.”