THE energy from this week’s underground nuclear test in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was felt in Dublin and Donegal but not in Clare.  

RYANAIR’S bid to take over Aer Lingus lies in tatters this week, something that will be broadly welcomed by supporters of Shannon.

The number of hours of marriage counselling sought by couples in the Mid-West has been steadily increasing in the past three years, according to a report this week from ACCORD.

EDITORIAL THE findings of the Magdalene Laundries Report shouldn’t have come as any great surprise to most; except in establishing the extent to which various organs of the State were complicit in sending women to such institutions.

It was a week of two halves for Fine Gael and the Government. It started off with the McAleese report on the Magdalene laundries and Enda Kenny’s mishandling of it and it ended up with what we have been told was a triumph in negotiating a deal on the infamous promissory notes.

GOOD political or current affairs cartoons can be a huge addition to a newspaper but for some reason, relatively few Irish local papers use them.

Clare-based Professor Margaret Mills Harper talks about her life-long obsession with the dark side of WB Yeats.

SHANNON’S David Hope has just released his second album, Scarecrow, on which he worked with Declan Sinnott.