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THE US Ambassador to Ireland, Dan Rooney, on a visit to Clare this week, guaranteed that he would continue to suggest to President Barrack Obama to come to Ireland and specifically to Clare, and to fly into Shannon Airport.

A NORTH Clare publisher has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award for the third year in-a-row, it was announced this week.

THE boundary line between Clare and Limerick has been the subject of endless debate and controversy over several generations.

If I were 40 or 50 years younger, I too would be outside the Eason bookshop in Dublin protesting against Tony Blair and throwing eggs at him.

Further tales of financial woe continued to pour from Ireland this week with Deputy Joe Carey of Fine Gael claiming that 40,000 people in Ireland are now in mortgage arrears.

IT was a case of two by four starting in junior infants in St Finnachta’s National School, Sixmilebridge on Wednesday morning.

THE population of Clare is to be slashed by 3,000 people if recommendations in a new report are approved by Cabinet.

MORE than 5,000 people logged onto the Ennis Parish website on Sunday last to watch the ordination ceremony of the new Bishop of Killaloe, Kieran O’Reilly.