THE number of commercial flights at Shannon dropped by 10% in the first quarter of this year, compared with the first three months of 2012 but it’s understood that terminal passenger numbers (those whose journey began or ended at Shannon) actually grew last month, the first sign of improvement in recent years.

Plans for a new state-of-the-art national school in Sixmilebridge are back on the drawing board after the Department of Education performed a u-turn this week.

The prospects of long-awaited breakthrough in the Killaloe ghost estate dispute increased significantly this week following a meeting between Clare County Council representatives and agents of the new prospective buyers.

Ireland’s largest environmental marine disaster exercise continues in the Shannon Estuary on Thursday.

WHILE three Clare county councillors have urged the local authority to start taking local roads in charge, the executive of the local authority insists it can’t be done, particularly given the terribly poor state of its finances.

EDITORIAL OUTSIDE of the farming community, envious eyes are often cast on the fact that Irish farmers are eligible for a raft of grants and subsidies.

It’s not as if the Labour Party did not have enough problems already. But the rejection by the unions of the new Croke Park agreement piles trouble upon trouble for the Government and particularly for Labour.

CRUSHEEN based storyteller, Eddie Lenihan swapped the relatively cold confines of Clare for the positively freezing surrounds of Moscow for a good part of March.