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Hospital funds increased

EDITORIAL OUTRAGE at the cutbacks in the health service, in terms of the cap on staff replacements, proposals to slash wages for new nurses and capital expenditure cuts was mollified to some degree in Clare this week.

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Time for genuine drugs debate

DEPUTY Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan has used Class A drugs, such as cocaine and LSD, in the past. This was news in the Irish media this week. He stated that his experiences were mainly negative and that people should be aware of the potential pitfalls of using such substances.

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Farmers face trek to Naas

members of the Clare farming community could well have to travel to Naas in County Kildare to talk directly with staff in a Department of Agriculture District Veterinary Office (DVO), it emerged this week.Amid considerable controversy, Clare’s DVO in Ennis was closed in April 2010 and services have since been provided from Limerick. A senior IFA figure has now warned that any reduction in services at the Limerick DVO would be “a step too far”.Clare IFA chairman Andrew Dundas made the comments after administration staff, working in Limerick DVO, said they were told at a meeting on Monday that they are to be redeployed to Revenue within four to six weeks.The Department of Agriculture has, however, contradicted claims by staff saying that while the Limerick office is being reviewed, “no final decision has yet been made”.June Danaher, secretary of the Limerick general branch of the Civil Public and Services Union, who works in the Department of Agriculture, said, “If our …

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Slain garda mourned in Kilkee

PASSENGERS on a bus from Kilkee to the late Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe’s removal in Louth on Tuesday, fell totally silent as they approached the Lordship Credit Union where he was shot dead.That’s just one of the poignant images that Mayor of Kilkee Claire Haugh recalled when speaking of West Clare people’s journey to pay tribute to a man they knew as the husband of local woman, Caroline Deloughrey.“As we got nearer to where it happened, people fell silent on the bus. We had read about it and seen the Lordship Credit Union on TV over the weekend but to see exactly where this tragedy happened, that was the defining moment for me personally,” Councillor Haugh said.Hundreds of people travelled from West Clare on Tuesday and Wednesday to pay their respects at the removal of the remains and the funeral mass and burial.“Adrian was laid out in his own living room, surrounded by his family on Tuesday. His mother, father, …

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