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Ennis resident and Rwandan native André Hakizimana, an economics masters graduate, has recently launched a new book charting a different take on Ireland’s economic downturn and what he feels can turn it around.

The west was alive with the sound of music this past week, calling tourists and traditional Irish music lovers, young and old, to Miltown Malbay for the annual Willie Clancy Summer School.

AT just 20 years of age, Michael Marshall is to have his first play read by Druid Theatre during the Galway Arts Festival. It’s a coup for the young Ennis man, who is studying Performing Arts at Sligo Institute of Technology and has been involved with Clare Youth Theatre. The play, Happy Birthday Jacob, tells the story of 17-year-old Jacob Dooley, who is playing both mother and father to his 10-year-old brother Lucas, while both parents are absent.No one suspects the two are alone, with only Jacob’s girlfriend Terry in on the secret. Things are going fine until their mother returns, which brings a lot of upheaval. Speaking to The Clare Champion Michael said he is delighted that Druid has chosen his play, although the significance of it did not strike him immediately.“When I got the email, first of all it didn’t hit me. Of course everyone else in my course in college would know how big a deal it …

LEGENDARY concertina player, Chris Droney from Belharbour, is to be honoured with a national musician’s award, Gradam an Chomhaltais.

TUMULTUOS events in the early part of the last century are the backdrop for (pictured) PJ Curtis’ new novel A Nightingale Falling.

MANY Clare people will make their way to the City of the Tribes this week and next for the Galway Arts Festival.