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OVER €5,000 was raised for cancer charities by the family of the late George Fitzpatrick, the distinguished former Kilkee and Clare footballer, who also served as a Clare FM analyst, before his death in February of this year, aged 51.

Diarmuid McMahon has been appointed managing director of Sherry Fitzgerald McMahon in Ennis and is the fourth generation of  the McMahon family in the property business in the county.

AN information day for kidney patients organised by the Clare branch of the Irish Kidney Association (IKA) attracted a great deal of interest from health professionals and service users last weekend.

One of the most ambitious cultural initiatives in recent years, Cuimhneamh an Chláir, will be launched next week.

Timeline The play, The Mousetrap entered the record books over 50 years ago in 1958 when it became the longest-running show in the history of British theatre.

    ENNIS author Anthony Galvin’s new book The Cruellest Cut – Irish Women Who Kill has hit the shelves.

THEY were classmates at De La Salle College in Waterford but 17 members of the class of ’61 returned to Bunratty for the sixth time when they held their latest reunion at the weekend.They have been holding an annual weekend get-together each November since they all met up at the official 30th anniversary event, which was held in Waterford in 1991. “We all got along so well together then that we decided to hold assemble in November each year and this year was the 18th event and next year’s weekend in Skerries has already been arranged,” said Aidan White of Shannon. With his background in the hotel and catering sector, the retired banqueting manager with Shannon Heritage and Banquets has been organiser-in-chief of the reunions held in Bunratty. In clocking up its eighth reunion last weekend, Bunratty moved further ahead of Kenmare, the venue for five events, with Blarney on two and the others hosted at two County Wexford locations …

FOR more than 50 years the building on Ballard Road operated as a vocational school but when the school closed its doors in Miltown Malbay in 1993, local people saw it as the beginning of a new era rather than the ending of one.Councillor Christy Curtin was the driving force behind plans to develop the building into a community resource centre and what’s more, he was prepared to put his money where his mouth was.When finance couldn’t be found from any source to initiate a Social Employment Scheme, both Christy and the late Michael McMahon put their hands in their pockets and coughed up the €1,000 to cover insurance and get the scheme up and running. Michael O’Loughlin was the first supervisor and Mary O’Brien the first secretary. It was a humble beginning but with patience and perseverance the community-orientated project has since blossomed to provide a range of social, recreational and education services for the wider West Clare community.Earlier …