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HURRICANE Sandy caused disruption to millions of people and its tentacles reached Shannon Airport where passengers were disrupted earlier this week.

MINISTER Joan Burton saluted the contribution made by Clare people to the Labour party since the party was founded 100 years ago.

TIME was when you heard of a bully you thought of a big strong brute of a man frightening the life out of a weaker individual with violence or the threat of violence. It also extended to constant jibes and exclusion from play or recreational activities and even permeated the workplace.

I am certainly not the first, and I hope I am not the last, to congratulate our Taoiseach Enda Kenny for being nominated European of the Year by the German Magazine Publishers’ Association.

THE investigation carried out by The Irish Times this week which reveals the worth of 15 Cabinet ministers is an eye opener if there ever was one. It has revealed, “The 15 members of Cabinet will have pension entitlements by the end of the Dáil term that would cost €36,301,205 if bought in the market today”.

A ROMANIAN national, described as “one of Clare’s most prolific criminals” has been “expelled from the country”. He becomes the first such criminal in Clare to be the subject of expulsion from Ireland by ministerial order.

FARMERS in East Clare are concerned at the level of departmental farm inspections that have taken place in the last two months locally and which have led to delays in issuing farm payments.