RYANAIR’S bid to take over Aer Lingus lies in tatters this week, something that will be broadly welcomed by supporters of Shannon.
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Increase in marriage counselling figures
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.
Read More »Say sorry, Enda
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.
Read More »Immoral debt that should not be paid at all
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.
Read More »Portrait of a cartoonist as a Bannerman
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.
Read More »The unknown side of WB Yeats
Clare-based Professor Margaret Mills Harper talks about her life-long obsession with the dark side of WB Yeats.
Read More »A Picture of Hope for Scarecrow album
SHANNON’S David Hope has just released his second album, Scarecrow, on which he worked with Declan Sinnott.
Read More »Purrs of praise for ’Bridge panto
The 80-strong cast has been selected, the leads assigned and the costumes fitted, because the bells are calling Dick Whittington and his cat to London.
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