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NEXT year’s Christmas festivities in Ennis could be bigger and better than ever before as the town hopes to capitalise on its recent success in RTÉ’s The Business Christmas Towns Competition.

DESPITE concerns expressed by a local resident and the HSE, Clare County Council has given planning permission for a manufacturing facility, which will employ around six people at Lacken, Kilmihil.

CLARE County Council is investigating odours in Miltown Malbay believed to be related to the local sewerage scheme.

FIVE pupils from Seamount College in Kinvara joined a select group of young people when they were among the first recipients of the Pope John Paul II Awards in the Diocese of Galway and Kilmacduagh.

Engineers from Kilkenny were called to South Galway on Saturday to prevent another Christmas crisis in the town.

A LARGE proportion of Shannon’s young people don’t go on to third-level education, according to the new draft development plan for the town.