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The 2012 West Clare Mini Marathon has raised a figure close to €120,000 from last January’s mini marathon and additional events this year.

AN American man who stumbled upon a photo of the Breens of Labasheeda is hoping people in Clare can help him identify them.

THERE was a very special reunion recently for one Clare family who managed to trace their roots and discovered they are related to one of the world’s most famous families – the Kennedys.

“I AM The Greatest,” was World Heavyweight Boxing champion Muhammad Ali’s famous catchphrase at a time when he danced his way around opponents at the height of his career.

THE onset of a severe spinal condition threatened to turn the life of a 48-year-old Ennis woman upside down until she completed a tailor-made exercise plan devised in a London clinic.  

THE late Jim Kemmy is long associated with the fall of the Government on a vote on the February 1982 budget. However, he did return to the Dáil and had a long parliamentary career.

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GEOFF and Sue Magee double over, laughing at the memory. Thirty years ago, the husband and wife transported a pair of caravans to Carrigaholt from Cork. They lived in them in nearby Kilcredaun before buying and refurbishing the late Delia Carroll’s house in the same townland. “We arrived in two barrel-topped wagons. We caused a stir alright,” Sue recalled in the office of the couple’s Dolphin Watch and Nature Boat Trip company in Carrigaholt. Originally from New York, Sue moved to Ireland in the late 1970s. She met Geoff, then a fisherman, in Dingle. He’s from Lancashire in England, although his parents are from Cavan and Leitrim, where he spent his childhood summers. After marrying, they moved to the US for a couple of years. Geoff fished in Alaska but they wanted to settle permanently and Carrigaholt beckoned. Geoff had already visited, moving a boat with John Mellet and the picturesque fishing village had left an immovable impression. “We came …