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RYANAIR boss Michael O’Leary doesn’t do niceties. He shoots from the hip and the lip and doesn’t really care who gets caught in the crossfire. What he wants to do is dictate the rules and play the game on his terms.

If you disliked paying the controversial €100 household charge, then you are going to absolutely detest paying the new property tax to be introduced next year.

IN 1969, Daniel Ellsberg photocopied all 47 volumes of a top-secret document with the intention of leaking it. Beginning in the New York Times, the leaks constituted what would become known as The Pentagon Papers and in the opinion of many, contributed in part to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.

CLARE Travellers have been accused of adopting a “code of silence” about people involved in criminal damage to Traveller accommodation in the county that so far has cost an estimated €468,000, it emerged this week.

ONE athlete with strong Clare connections was in Olympic dreamland this week when he achieved the qualification standard for the marathon at London 2012.

COMPANIES and individuals in Clare have made settlements totaling almost €1.4 million with the Revenue Commissioners arising from the under-declaration of VAT, income tax and capital gains tax, it was revealed this week.

ONE of Clare’s top rallying navigators remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital, after she sustained head injuries in a crash at the weekend.