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A LOT has changed in the radio business in the past two decades but the objective for Clare FM is still the same – to celebrate and promote what is local.This Friday the radio station based on Francis Street, Ennis celebrates 21 years of broadcasting, a feat not accomplished by many radio stations.Throughout the years there have been major changes in media, largely due to huge advances in technology, and Clare FM has kept up with all of the changes, still providing the people of Clare, and nowadays much further afield, with a key radio service.General manager of Clare FM, Susan Murphy, says it’s hard to believe the station has been around for 21 years, because there is still a real vibrance to the station. Over the years a number of people who have gone on to achieve notoriety in the world of media have worked in Clare FM, including Rachael English, Alan Cantwell, Marty Morrissey, Áine Hensey, Caimin Jones, …

THE newly crowned Miss Clare, 19-year-old Alice Carroll from Parteen, has two weeks to prepare for the Miss Ireland pageant in Dublin.

A NEW national competition invites secondary school students to experience the challenges of working in an advertising agency; whilst providing teachers with an initiative that has cross-curricular linkage potential.

There are many old Irish songs that tell of the help coming to this country from abroad. If every army that had promised to come and save the poor old Sean Bhean Bhocht actually arrived, there would not have been room for them all.

Bishop Kieran O’Reilly, ordained at a packed Ennis Cathedral on Sunday, was full of thanks for the honour bestowed, writes Dearbhla Acheson.

THE new Bishop of Killaloe, Kieran O’Reilly, was adjusting to his role in his new home in Westbourne, Ennis, this week after his ordination on Sunday.

IT is half past one on Sunday. The sky is blue and a light breeze is gently fluttering the bunting outside Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Ennis. People are already arriving in their finery, men in suits and women in a fog of dusty pinks, muted purples, pale oranges and muffled greens. They are the embodiment of conservative vibrancy, of subdued joy.

FORMER world featherweight champion, Barry McGuigan, feels more young people should consider boxing as a sport.