Clare Independent TD Michael McNamara has told the Dáil that farmers are being prevented from harvesting forestry they plant and there is no incentive to replace monoculture Sitka Spruce plantations with something more sustainable.

Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Malcolm Noonan, joined Virginia Teehan, Chief Executive of The Heritage Council, Maria Walsh, Heritage in Schools Project Manager and Mary Dillon, Community Programmes Manager with Burrenbeo Trust to launch ‘Heritage Keepers’, a new pilot national Place Based Learning and Stewardship initiative.

A Clare hotel was delighted to receive an award recently in the SEAI Energy Awards.

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has praised the Burren Agritourism sector for a host of innovative food and farm initiatives which saw hundreds of visitor’s head to the Burren area this Bank holiday weekend.

Universal Hydrogen Co. has announced it has executed a letter of intent (LOI) with Dublin-based ASL Aviation Holdings, a global aviation services group based in Dublin, Ireland.

Fáilte Ireland has today launched a new plan that will help drive and sustain tourism in the Burren and Cliffs of Moher.

SDC Business Consulting, a leading consulting company in the aerospace sector, has announced the creation of an ecosystem framework to help regional airports know what sustainable aviation operations will look like so they can lead the transition towards a climate-neutral air transport system.

Communities across Clare will have the opportunity to apply for a grant of up to €5,000 through the ‘Accenture Sustainability Challenge’ supported by the social innovation platform ChangeX.