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‘Six months of torture’ over for former mayor

A FORMER Fianna Fáil county councillor has expressed his delight that “a long six months of torture” has ended but said questions remain to be answered after a complaint of plagiarism was made against him relating to his masters’ thesis, four years after he graduated.

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Ambassador’s wife comes home to the west

  Patricia Dubois Zanini, wife of Italian Ambassador Maurizio Zanini, will visit her ancestral home on Sunday for the National Famine Commemoration in Kilrush. Approximately 43 ambassadors are expected in the West Clare town for the commemoration, which will also be attended by President Michael D Higgins. Patricia Dubois Zanini visited Kilrush twice in 2012. Along with her sister she visited their ancestral Bulger and Scanlan family graves. They paid their respects at the family plot where those buried include three children of Daniel Scanlan Bulger, who died in infancy in 1867, 1872 and 1874; John Bulger (died 1836) and Mary Bulger née Scanlan (died 1864), probably Daniel’s parents; and Daniel Scanlan and Ellen Scanlan née Kelly (both died 1830), probably Mary’s parents and thus the great-great-great-great-great-grandparents of the younger visitors. Patricia Zanini’s great-grandmother, Anne Bulger, was born in 1875 in Kilrush, where her father, Daniel Scanlan Bulger, ran a loan office and other businesses in Moore Street. The Bulger …

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