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Clare’s Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) is pleased to announce the launch of the Healthy Clare Micro Fund for 2024, aimed at recognising the importance of supporting initiatives around the county that promote health and wellbeing across the lifespan. The micro fund is dedicated to supporting community-led, grassroots projects that promote the themes of Healthy Ireland Round 4.

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning approval to Clare County Council for the development of new visitor experience facilities at Loop Head Lighthouse Visitor Experience in County Clare.

Clare County Council is delighted to announce that it has secured funding from the Department of Rural and Community Development to launch a new Mobile Library Service. The announcement was made by Heather Humphreys TD as part of a major investment of over €25 million in Public Library Services in Ireland.

The Department of Rural and Community Development and Clare County Council are pleased to invite Expressions of Interest for funding under the Community Recognition Fund 2024.

Over 170 people attended an event in the Woodstock Hotel in Ennis, County Clare, on Wednesday 10^th April, to celebrate with the fifteen people nominated for the Clare Older People’s Volunteer of the Year Award 2024. The function was hosted by the Clare Older People’s Council, with support from the Clare Age Friendly Programme in Clare County Council.

The Elected Members of Clare County Council have unanimously adopted a six-year integrated economic and community strategic plan for County Clare.

An Bord Pleanála today notified Clare County Council of its decision to grant planning permission for a Data Centre Campus consisting of 6 data centre halls and associated site works at Tooreen, Tulla Road, Ennis, Co. Clare.

Free and half price admission is being offered at local visitor attractions and sites across County Clare on Saturday and Sunday, April 20th and 21st, as part of the second annual “Be a Tourist in Your Own County Clare” initiative.

The Winter Lecture Series continues at Clare Museum on Wednesday, 17th April, at 7:30pm, with a talk by Geraldine Burke entitled ‘County Clare Connections in the Army Athletic Association in the 1920s and 1930s’.

Following a public tender process, Tourism Development International (TDI) commenced the Mars Cinema feasibility study in January 2024.