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A county councillor is seeking clarification from RTÉ after the national broadcaster declined a request by the local authority to play the national anthem every night, saying it would be “counter-productive”.

The setting up of the new Shannon Airport Management Authority is unlikely to take place before next year. Following a query from Clare County Council, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar, said the steering group will submit its recommendations to him and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton “before the end of the year”. The ministers will then “bring forward detailed proposals to Government”.

THE recent establishment of a new education and research department at the first Children’s Hospice in Ireland is being led by a Tiermaclane woman.

LAHINCH Seaworld has been granted a zoo licence at the facility in the resort town.

COUPLES from Clare engaging with the free Family Mediation Service and the ancillary mediation service at the Citizens’ Information Office in Ennis are on the rise, which has prompted a call for an outreach mediation service in the county.

WITH the new personal insolvency regime still months away, solutions for those in mortgage arrears still remain somewhat patchy. These issues were addressed at a seminar organised by the Citizens’ Information Service and Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) in Ennis last week.

There have been renewed calls for greater awareness of the dangers of farming, following the tragic slurry tank accident in County Down at the weekend.

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.