RYANAIR boss Michael O’Leary doesn’t do niceties. He shoots from the hip and the lip and doesn’t really care who gets caught in the crossfire. What he wants to do is dictate the rules and play the game on his terms.

If you disliked paying the controversial €100 household charge, then you are going to absolutely detest paying the new property tax to be introduced next year.

IN 1969, Daniel Ellsberg photocopied all 47 volumes of a top-secret document with the intention of leaking it. Beginning in the New York Times, the leaks constituted what would become known as The Pentagon Papers and in the opinion of many, contributed in part to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.

TWO youth ambassadors from the US state of Arizona are settling into Ennis life as part of the Ennis-Phoenix Youth Ambassador Exchange programme. For three weeks in June, they will live with their host families and experience the life of Irish teenagers in County Clare.

A former American aircraft helicopter mechanic has high hopes there will be a rapid take off to his appeal for assistance to commemorate 100 years of memories in one of the oldest parts of Ennis.Research is already underway by the St Flannan’s Terrace Centenary Committee to discover and publish the history of the houses and the tales of former residents.It is being spearheaded by Brian Dinan, who served as an aircraft helicopter mechanic for the US Army from 1964 to 1967.Born in 26 St Flannan’s Terrace in 1943, Brian live there until October 23, 1962, when he emigrated to the USA where he qualified as a mechanical design engineer, designing plans for tools and machinery.After being drafted into the US army for a three-year stint during the Vietnam conflict, he received further training in Virginia and was based in West Germany. A member of the Fourth Armour Division, he was involved in the repair and maintenance of planes. At the …

PLANS to build a cycle path between two of North Clare’s busiest towns has “tremendous potential”, according to a local hotelier and the head of the Irish Hotels Federation.

HOT off the printing presses, Clare Roots Society will launch its latest publication,  Drumcliff Cemetery (Calvary Section) – Cemetery Trail, continuing its work of photographing, transcribing and publishing details of the burials in Drumcliff cemetery.

THE life of prominent Ennis townsman Thomas Stanislaus Cleary is the subject of a research project being carried out by a Clare student who is looking for any information or to make contact with any surviving relatives.