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ORLA Ní Eilí of the Clare Immigrant Support Centre in Ennis has warned that some people in the county may experience further isolation if next Wednesday’s Budget adversely impacts upon the income of low earners or the unemployed.

Clare office equipment and paper suppliers will suffer a significant reduction in business if the county’s primary and secondary schools are forced to adhere rigidly to a national procurement directive.

Two West Clare cancer survivors are among just four in the country who have relayed their experience of receiving a potentially life-changing diagnosis on a digital video for the benefit of trainee doctors.

  Lions Club of Ennis, together with Ennis Rotary Club, have chosen to partner with Cahercalla Hospice, Ennis to create a remembrance Christmas tree. People may wish to remember a loved one who has passed away or indeed a loved one who is overseas or away from home this Christmas time. The name of each loved one remembered will be written on a yellow ribbon and placed on the tree in The Market Square at the roundabout. This is a fundraising initiative. Ribbons (€5 each) are available from the fundraising department at Cahercalla and Remembrance Tree Office at The Market Square. An ecumenical service to remember every name on the Remembrance Tree will be held in St Columba’s Church, Bindon Street on January 4, at 6pm. All the ribbons from the tree will be brought in procession at the service. The project will be formally launched on December 8 in The Market at 1pm.  All are welcome.

A LIMERICK City councillor has requested the Health Service Executive to reconsider extending the opening hours of the emergency departments in Ennis and Nenagh hospitals.

The failure of the HSE Forum West members to support calls for a public inquiry into the death of a 31-year-old Indian woman in University College Hospital, Galway, recently has been described as a “missed opportunity” by a Clare councillor.

THE effect of budget cutbacks in recent years is emerging as a “significant issue” for many households, according to the Citizens’ Information Service in Clare.

OPPOSITION parties generally look for more generous budgets, whatever the economic circumstances, and Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil are following this pattern as both have launched alternative budget proposals, which they say would reduce hardship.