by Cillian Murphy | Aug 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
A few years ago in Norway I spoke with a person who had renovated a very old building, her ethos was “to use what we have, where we have it”. Ever since I was elected this maxim has been to the front of my interest in tackling property dereliction and vacancy,...
by Cillian Murphy | Apr 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Back in September 2020, I, along with my colleagues Cllr. Ian Lynch and Cllr. Joe Garrihy, brought a ‘notice of motion’ before the chamber asking that Clare County Council would look into taking all playgrounds in Clare under the local authority insurance…...
by Cillian Murphy | Mar 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
OREDP II Consultation At the March meeting of Clare County Council, I brought a Notice of Motion with regards to the consultation on the 2nd Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan currently being undertaken by the Department of Environment, Climate and...
by Cillian Murphy | Feb 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
At the Regional Health Forum today I had asked a series of questions looking for what I consider to be fairly basic data with regards to where patients attending the Emergency Dept. (ED) in UHL come from and what percentage of them actually needed to be at the...
by Cillian Murphy | Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Tourism and the travel industry …essentially the renting out for short-term lets of other people’s environments.” Sir Colin Marshall, Chair of British Airways 1994 Tourism is an industry that almost always happens to a community, and almost all tourism...
by Cillian Murphy | Mar 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
At the March 2022 full council meeting I requested that Clare County Council would commission a report into the impacts of short term lets on communities across Clare. First of all, the directors response was positive, and the commitment to get the forward planning...