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THE Rambling House in Kilmurry McMahon hosted Belfast-based Zimbabwean man Cuthbert ‘Tura’ Arutura on Monday night.

THE 52nd West Clare Drama Festival started in Doonbeg last Saturday evening with Brideview Drama Group from Waterford first to take to the stage. The annual festival will conclude on Monday when Cooraclare Drama Group with The Hen Night Epiphany tread the boards.

TO mark the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s 30th anniversary performance of the Brendan Voyage on March 15, explorer and historian Tim Severin made a visit back to the Brendan at Craggaunowen.

A DAZZLING array of glitz and glamour will be on display for Mid-West fashion lovers in Dromoland Castle at the end of the month.

The recent food scare has made many of us much more aware of what we eat. When the Food Safety Authority of Ireland announced last January it found traces of horse DNA in beef products, it was treated in some quarters as another Irish joke.

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  A Kilrush engineer said he will never forget the groundswell of support from friends of a former Rose of Tralee contestant who passed away last year. Up to 60 Rose of Tralee escorts, contestants and friends of Adrienne Hussey crammed into the waiting room of Beaumont Hospital in Dublin at midnight on Wednesday, January 12, 2012. Barry Prendeville said people came from all over the world when they heard about Adrienne’s critical condition. Unfortunately, their worst fears were realised when Adrienne, at just 26, died from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm that doctors believe may have been congenital. She was a social worker from Plano, Texas. Like all her friends, Barry was devastated after her death and wanted to do something to remember her by. Having met Adrienne while she was competing as the Texan Rose of Tralee in August 2010, they struck up a great friendship. At the time, Barry was the escort for the Luxembourg Rose and when …

NOT many people use telephone directories. There are more mobile phones than people in the country and each has its built-in phonebook of regular numbers. Add in the fact that one can go online and access the directory directly and it is easy to see why there is less and less call for big paper directories.