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Grow your green fingers

EASTER has come and gone at the Irish Seedsavers Association in Scariff and their geese are getting fat, as they help trim back the grass and weeds in preparation for a busy planting season.

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Communion frock time

EIGHT-year-old girls across Clare are preparing to walk down the aisle over the next few weeks to receive their First Holy Communion and will be putting the final touches to their look for the big day.

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It’s all about the three-piece suit

It’s that time of year again when pupils in Clare’s primary schools are preparing for one of the most important days in their young lives so far, their First Holy Communion. Carol Byrne spoke to Kathy McMahon about this year’s trends in Communion wear for boys and girls. WITH First Holy Communions just around the corner, boys and girls are getting ready to recite their prayers and to receive the sacrament.

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Tiger Woods’ first Masters

Time Line The press coverage leading up to the US Masters Golf Championship in Augusta, Georgia, dealt more with Tiger Woods and his reappearance in a golf tournament than on the tournament itself.  

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Natural-born salesman

He’s come a long way from selling penny apples on Moore Street but, writes Dearbhla Acheson, Bill Cullen is still the same man he always was. HE’S come a long way from the days his mother made him get trousers that were too big for him so he’d get more value out of him but renowned entrepreneur and latter-day TV star Bill Cullen still holds on to his basic values and morals.

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Volunteering to be a part of history

Peadar McNamara looks back at the story of Clare’s National Volunteers during one of the most tumultuous times in Ireland and Europe’s history. The Irish Volunteer Force in Clare in August 1914 had 5,200 recruits in 60 companies. Following the Irish Parliamentary Party’s break from the Irish Volunteers, the overwhelming majority, 5,000 men, transferred their obligiance to the National Volunteer Forces.

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