The Road Safety Authority (RSA) is asking road users to exercise caution while using the roads over the next few days as Met Eireann has issued Orange and Yellow weather warnings for strong winds.
7,200 native trees including 1800 saplings of the endangered Burren pine were distributed to selected landowners in Co.Clare as part of The Hare’s Corner - a new community-led ecological restoration project.
The Road Safety Authority and the County and City Management Association are calling on all landowners to cut their hedgerows before March 1 to ensure they are not causing a potential serious road safety hazard.
Clare Fine Gael TD, Joe Carey, has said that funding of €148,711, under Measure 1 of the Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme, will result in significant improvements to the network of walks across the county.
Climate campaigners from around Ireland occupied the Shannon LNG fracked gas terminal site in Co Kerry this weekend in a show of resistance to a project that would “lock Ireland into climate-wrecking fossil fuels for decades”.