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Curves this week announced the five finalists of the Curvette of the Year 2010 competition and Clare woman Dympna Carthy is among those shortlisted.

To readers of a younger generation, the name General Eoin O’Duffy may not mean a lot but to an older group, he was either a hero or one of the great hate figures of the last century.

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CHECKPOINT Charlie was where Americans and Soviets stared each other down, just yards apart on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall, for almost 30 years.

THIRTY years after he walked through the doors of St Finnachta’s National School for the very first time, Dick O’Connell will see out his years in the teaching profession as the Sixmilebridge school principal.

Seamus Torpey, always interested in becoming barber, began his career when he was 15. He was running his own barbershop in Miltown Malbay by the time he was 20 but left this to go to NUIG. After completing a research masters in information technology, he travelled South-East Asia, India, China, Mongolia and Siberia, before going back to Galway in 2007.

Irish rugby legends Keith Wood and Peter Clohessy have signed up as the region’s first sports ambassadors in an initiative that could see more sports events secured for County Clare and the Mid-West region.

MEMBERS of the Kilfenora Céilí Band past and present received a prestigious award this week when John Lynch, the group’s musical director, was bestowed with a Master of Music from the National University of Ireland, Galway.