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  Junior highly commended Mary MurphySeamount College, Kinvara THE shop was busy. The rustle of clothes, beeps of cash registers and low hum of conversation filled your ears as soon as you entered.This sounds like an appealing description but just to let you know, the conversation came from the mouths of Neanderthals seized by a fit of temporary (or otherwise) consumer mania. How long could I wait until uttering the hated words ‘next please’ initiating the serving of the next excuse for human life? I wondered if I said that aloud. Even if I had, my face held the look of indifferent superiority, as I felt. I felt indifferent, because a life time of witty and worthy comments had taught me that the lower people would take offence. (I presume I do not need to explain why I felt superior).By now, the craning heads of the insatiable vultures’ hording from our sale racks, looking at my free stall, told me …

Junior  highly commended Niamh Keady-Tabbal, Seamount College Kinvara

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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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