Firefighters from two stations spent over twelve hours dealing with a fire in a coal bunker at the country’s largest and only coal-burning electricity generating station.
Lahinch has seen its share of climate change impacts. Recent years have seen a number of significant storm events crash onto the seaside village. Costs of storm damage in Lahinch are estimated at c.€6m; the largest single cost along the badly hit Clare coast. But what's at the root of our changing climate?
A public information meeting on the recommended priority areas for action under the new River Basin Management Plan will take place on Thursday (26 October) at the Templegate Hotel in Ennis at 8.00 p.m.
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.
Irish Water says it has made significant progress in addressing issues at Clare’s water supply schemes which are on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Remedial Action List (RAL).
An Environment Protection Agency (EPA) report which finds that water quality in private water supplies is consistently poorer than public water supplies, should serve as “a wakeup call” and highlights the lack of investment in water services.