HUGE cutbacks have already been made at Clare County Council over the last few years, county manager Tom Coughlan told last Friday’s special meeting of members of the local authority, organised to discuss a cut in funding for the third quarter of the year.
Read More »40 E.coli cases in Mid-West region
Up to 40 VTEC E.coli cases have been reported in the Mid-West Region, the Mid-West Health Service Executive has revealed.
Read More »First Mr Gay Clare eyes title
IRELAND’S first Mr Gay Clare has been named, following a dramatic decision by organisers of the Mr Gay Cork competition at the weekend.
Read More »Manufacturing biggest Clare employer
The manufacturing industry sector is the biggest employer in County Clare, according to the latest figures released by the Central Statistics Office.
Read More »All is not what it seems
AT first glance, the purveyors of gloom could have a field day. A financial deficit of just under €11,991,000 and a net loss of just under 200 jobs on the Free Zone are the stand-out headlines in Shannon Development’s Annual Report for 2011.
Read More »Olympian effort needed to change our mindset
“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.” – Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
Read More »We need to change how we elect TDs
When I was a boy, the great political promises of the time were to revive the Irish language and to abolish the border. We are still waiting for those promises to be fulfilled.
Read More »Road funding to be first casualty
Roads across County Clare look set to be the first casualty of the cuts to local government funding announced last week.
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