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WITH Fáilte Ireland yet to confirm if seasonal tourism offices will open in Kilrush and Kilkee next month, Loop Head Tourism chairman, Cillian Murphy has told The Clare Champion that year-round community information points, located in existing businesses, could be a better option.

The HSE has issued a formal directive banning over-occupancy at Ennis Acute Psychiatric Unit (APU) after an audit found a male patient was sleeping in a corridor space, which was abutted by two wards.

A BALLYVAUGHAN victim of a “barbaric” symphysiotomy has urged the Government to provide justice to over 200 other survivors as quickly as possible.

COUNCILLOR Brian Meaney has applied for membership of Fianna Fáil in Clare, after dramatically ending his 20-year association with the Green Party.

ENNIS Town Council has said it has no evidence to support information given to the district court in Ennis last week that two homeless men were living in public toilets.

CRATLOE-based Neil Cusack, who won the Boston marathon in 1974, was stunned on Monday when news of the bombing of the 2013 marathon filtered through.

A senior teaching union official in Clare is urging the Government to reconsider its position in relation to cost-cutting in the public service following the collapse of the Croke Park II proposals this week.

WITH phrases like “I’m grand” and “That’s class” tripping off their tongues, it looks like a group of teenagers visiting Clare all the way from Australia fully immersed themselves in the local culture.