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Owen Ryan talks to Cathal Oakes about his six years at the helm of St Vincent de Paul in Clare  

REVENUE’S published defaulters list for the fourth quarter of 2012 features three settlements/determinations made with Clare people/businesses, which come to a total of €457,147.

House prices in Clare continued to fall in the last three months, with the average price of a home here now just shy of €143,000.

New INTO vice-president Seán McMahon has expressed concerns about difficulties for principals in terms of timetabling and trying to divide resources to special needs children.

PARADOXICALLY, the coldest March the Banner County has seen in almost 60 years could be due to global warming, which some ­scientists believe may have thrown the Jet Stream off course.

The political story of the week was undoubtedly the collapse of the Labour vote in Meath East. While nobody expected Labour to do well in this mainly rural constituency, the extent of the drubbing that the party got at the polls came as a major shock to Labour supporters everywhere. The fact is that support for the party fell from around 22% at the general election over two years ago to 4.5% now. In other words, support for Labour collapsed in a constituency where the

The recent Meath by-election was a very interesting one, for a number of reasons. Firstly, the main party of government managed to have a candidate elected. Granted there were very specific and tragic circumstances in this case but it must still be seen as a significant achievement.

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