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Read next week’s issue to discover the outcome of a mid-campaign debate among Clare’s General Election candidates. The Clare Champion organised Burning Issues Debate will take place before an invited audience at the Old Ground Hotel on Monday night. Chaired by staff journalists, it will deal with questions relating to unemployment, industry and tourism, emigration, the drop in income levels, Shannon airport and health. The debate will be attended by all Clare election candidates.

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The Clare Association in Dublin held its annual dinner dance in the Carlton Hotel, Dublin last Saturday night, where Sr Maura O’Donoghue and Robbie McMahon were honoured.

YOU don’t need to win the Lotto to be treated like a princess but any young woman who enters the 2011 Clare Rose selection will get the royal treatment and be in with a chance to become the Rose of Tralee.

A Red Flag has been a symbol of left-wing politics and of socialism for almost 200 years. It had been used during the French Revolution but was possibly used as a symbol of the working class for the first time in Wales in 1831 when oppressed miners took over their mine and town.

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A Coward If I Return, A Hero If I Fall: Stories of Irishmen in World War I, told the story of previously unknown Irish soldiers of the Great War and went on to win the Argosy Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award as part of the Bord Gáis 2010 Irish Book Awards. The author is Neil Richardson, an Irish military history writer who is hoping to write a similar book on the Irish in World War II. He is appealing to surviving veterans or their families to contact him with their stories. At least 7,000 Irish were killed in action during World War II and Neil would like this book to honour the memory of those who died. Everyone joined up for their own personal reasons but either way, they should all be remembered for their sacrifice.“I strongly believe that these people’s lives should be preserved and written down for all to read. I want to tell the stories of …