Editing County Clare (section)

===Local government===
{{Main|Clare County Council}}
The local authority for the county is [[Clare County Council]].

[[Fianna Fáil]] lost its overall majority on the council in 2004.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2004/0615/1086274489602.html |title='A very bad performance' -Ahern |author=Mark Hennessy and Michael O'Regan |date=15 June 2004 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=20 February 2008 |archive-date=11 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011101255/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2004/0615/1086274489602.html |url-status=live }}</ref> As of the [[2019 Clare County Council election|2009 local election]], Fianna Fáil is the largest party, with 13 of the 28 seats.

The county seat is at Ennis, which also serves as a major regional hub for County Clare. Among its emergency services, it contains the [[Ennis Hospital]], the HQ of the Clare Divisional Garda, the Clare Fire Brigade and Civil Defence.

The council has two representatives on the [[Southern Regional Assembly]], where it is part of the [[Mid-West Region, Ireland|Mid-West]] strategic planning area.<ref>{{Cite Irish legislation|year=2014|type=si|number=573|name=Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Assemblies) (Establishment) Order 2014|date=16 December 2014|access-date=29 January 2022}}</ref>