Kilkee Chamber of Commerce has launched an appeal looking for people from all over the world with a connection to the town to invest in the future of Kilkee.

The opening today of the final 57km of the M17 M18 motorway will not only bring immediate economic benefits to towns and cities along the Atlantic Economic Corridor but it will support the development of the entire Shannon basin and act as the mobility backbone that improves the north-south flow along the Wild Atlantic Way.

The Cathaoirleach of Clare County Council believes the granting of full planning permission to LIT to develop a state-of-the-art higher education campus in Coonagh on the Clare/Limerick border will have positive knock-on benefits for the wider Mid West Region and Shannon in particular.

The General Manager of the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel is hopeful that more business groups will visit the West Clare resort and believes the revenue they bring benefits the local area and region.

Clare Fianna Fáil TD, Timmy Dooley has called on the country's Fine Gael Oireachtas members to explain how they can support Minister Leo Varadkar when his office is set to cut staffing levels at Obair Newmarket on Fergus.

Companies who may find themselves in front of a Workplace Relations Commission hearing to mitigate or defend a claim against their company are set to benefit from participating in a mock adjudication hearing which Shannon Chamber is organising.

Shannon Airport has confirmed it proposes to introduce a voluntary redundancy scheme as one of a number measures to help reduce costs.

Clare's Independent TD has claimed that the Fine Gael led minority government seems to have forgotten the commitments it agreed to deliver in the Programme for a Partnership Government on May 6th 2016.