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YOUNGSTERS who took part in a nationwide writing and art competition, including the overall winner from Kilmihil, were honoured this week when their works were put on display in Ennis’ de Valera Library.

EDITORIALTHE Anglo Irish Bank telephone tapes affair goes way beyond GUBU, an acronym coined in the early 1980s with reference to incidents leading to the apprehension of a double-murderer in the house of the Attorney General.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is far more clever than we have been giving him credit for. Instead of debating economic issues, where the Government is weak, he has had us arguing about getting rid of the Seanad and about abortion, issues where a majority of the people are backing the Government.

THE revelation this week of the so-called ‘Anglo Tapes’ by the Irish Independent has sent shockwaves through Irish civil and political life.

An ‘impending crisis’ looms for the elderly people of Clare, writes Dan Danaher

PLANNING has been lodged with Clare County Council for the redevelopment of the West Clare Railway, incorporating a National Railway Heritage Museum in Moyasta.   The project would include a storage and repair area for historic railway rolling stock, a café and gallery. It would involve the construction of a footbridge over the railway line, adjacent to the museum building, along with a railway and pedestrian crossing on the main Kilrush/Kilkee road. In the planning report submitted by Brendan McGrath and Associates, Corofin, it is envisaged that the museum would have a floor area of 1,853 square metres. Clare County Council granted permission for a similar project in 2009 but the National Roads Authority successfully appealed that decision. An Bord Pleanála refused permission on the grounds the development would endanger public safety by reason of a traffic hazard and that the proposal had “not shown how it would integrate with the established railway at Moyasta junction”. However, Brendan McGrath’s planning …

A PAIR of medieval carvings, which were removed by a sea captain from Scattery Island more than 150 years ago, are to be returned to the island as part of a Gathering events on Sunday, July 7.

THE Clare Volunteer Centre is organising a unique gathering on Sunday at Ennis Cathedral in an effort to break a world record for the largest ever gathering of people of the same name, in the same place at the same time.