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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.

“YOUNG people in County Clare care passionately about making the world they live in a better place for everyone,” says Amy Bickerton, chairperson of Clare Comhairle na nÓg.

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.