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A FARMER from Cross in the Loop Head peninsula played a central role in rescuing two people from a stalled fibreglass boat in Trabolgan, Cork last Saturday night.

Clare County Councillors Johnny Flynn and Christy Curtin have voiced their concerns that Clare might be losing out to Limerick City in the Draft Mid-West Area Strategic Plan.

Sixmilebridge National School has decided not to take up the offer of funding for five new mainstream classrooms as a short-term option instead of a modern new building.

A Preferred route corridor has been accepted by the Project Steering Committee to facilitate development of Phase Two of the €100m Limerick Northern Distributor Road.

In the Dáil on Wednesday, Taoiseach Enda Kenny assurred the people that Clare County Council is not entitled by law to reduce or withhold a portion of the third-level grant. He also confirmed no monies have been withheld by Clare County Council in respect of higher education grants.

I have been taken to task by a reader in Berlin – of all places – for criticising the International Monetary Fund in this column last week.

The International Monetary Fund recently issued its opinion of how the Irish Government is doing in getting the economy back in shape after its burial under an avalanche of debt in recent years.

A MAJOR political row has erupted over the proposed “significant downgrading” of 12-hour emergency services at Ennis hospital, amid claims that local Government deputies are not living up to their pre-election promises.