The beach at Kilkee has been closed to bathers due to a discharge of wastewater and just weeks after it reopened following a ban on swimming last December.
More than 500 primary school students from 16 Clare schools have participated in Blue Flag Environmental Awareness sessions at the county’s 9 Blue Flag beaches.
The Office of Public Works has confirmed it will provide capital funding for flood protection measures for Springfield Clonlara and has also approved the preferred measures subject to a number of conditions.
Clare County Council has carried out clean-up operations at two locations in Ennis where members of the traveller community had previously lived in caravans.