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ON a scorching late spring afternoon a dozen taxis queue at the Parnell Street car park rank, as bored drivers read newspapers or stand in the sunshine outside their vehicles.

RETIRED Garda Vivian Cahalane still remembers the widespread fear that gripped people in local communities following the triple abduction and murder of three young people in 1994.

A WEST Clare social justice and equality campaigner has been rewarded for contributing to various non-profit making organisations over a 20-year period.

She is far from the land, where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her, sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying!

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THE May 2008 meeting of Kilrush Town Council discussed the then apparently achievable plan of buying the dilapidated Inis Cathaigh Hotel and refurbishing it for use as civic offices at a projected cost of €5 million. At that meeting, Bernadette Kinsella, who was then the town manager, said she was pleased the establishment of the new civic offices, under discussion for a long time, was a step closer.

ELEVEN months after sustaining head, neck and spinal injuries, which have left him paralysed from the chest down, 21-year-old Cian Cleary will briefly return to Kildysart this Bank Holiday Monday.