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THE Clare Rose won’t be the only local person taking centre stage at the annual Rose of Tralee festival next week. Ennis’ Colm Flynn is the host of a new ‘behind the scenes’ look at the Rose of Tralee, which will be broadcast around the world on Monday and Tuesday.

ONE of the most popular family events in the Mid-West, the Milford Hospice Harvest Fair will take place at the UL Sports Arena on Sunday, September 1. The fair has grown to become the hospice’s main fundraiser.

COMMENT HAS anything changed in Northern Ireland? Yes, there have been many changes, in spite of recent chaotic riots and mindless anarchy on the streets of Belfast.  

COMMENT A NUMBER of weeks ago, in or around the day of the latest royal in birth Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron made an announcement regarding the introduction of an “opt-in” system for online pornography.  

EDITORIAL THE Clare U-21 hurlers’ decisive Munster final win over Tipperary last week provides a timely boost for the seniors, as they prepare to face Limerick in Croke Park on Sunday, with an All-Ireland final place at stake.  

  HAVING cycle lanes and footpaths right beside each other is causing problems in Shannon, with some elderly people afraid to walk to local shops. That was the message delivered at last week’s meeting of Shannon Town Council last week after independent councillor Cathy McCafferty put down a motion asking for details of any measures that would be taken to “address the anomaly of so-called ‘shared use footpaths’ put in place by the local authority given that the Department of Transport has confirmed its intention to introduce fixed charge notices for various cycling offences, which are likely to include cycling on a footpath.” However, she was told the introduction of these fines wouldn’t be relevant to the shared use paths/lanes. “The shared-use foot/cycle paths currently in place in Shannon are signed and lined for shared-use and as such would not be subject to these fixed charge notices. Cyclists are allowed to use marked cycle paths and mixed-use pedestrian/cycle paths, but …

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has uncovered breaches of management and staffing records at eight Clare pre-school facilities, following inspections earlier this year.

  DECEASED Cooraclare and Cree emigrants, who are buried abroad, will be remembered on Sunday when a commemorative monument is unveiled outside St Senan’s Church. Part Leader-funded research, carried out by the Cooraclare Cree Historical Society, has found that hundreds of Cooraclare people are buried around the world. Committee chairman Tommy Clune has a deep personal interest in the project, as four of his siblings are buried abroad. Indeed, it was while at his brother Peter’s funeral in Southampton that he happened upon the remembrance concept. “I was over at the brother’s funeral and that’s when this idea struck me. That was about five years ago. I was coming away from the grave and I said to myself ‘I might never again see this grave’. I thought about it after and I said there must be an awful lot of people in this situation,” Tommy told The Clare Champion. Another brother, Patrick, is buried in Northampton; his sister Theresa is …