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COMMENT EAMON Gilmore told us at the weekend that “the people of Ireland have spoken” when endorsing the European Fiscal Treaty. Well, I have news for the leader of the Labour Party: the people of Ireland have not spoken. Some of the people of Ireland have spoken. Nobody asked the people of Derry, Antrim, Down, Armagh, Fermanagh or Tyrone for their opinion.  

Hundreds of soccer fans from Clare are travelling to Poland to support Trapp’s Army as they take part in the UEFA European Football Championship Finals, which begin at the weekend.  Ireland will play their first match on Sunday evening against Croatia, watched in Poznan by between 15,000 and 20,000 Irish fans including many from the Banner County.

MAYOR of Clare, Pat Hayes, has said he is concerned about the pending loss of Aer Rianta International to Shannon. He has also criticised the decision not to appoint any representative of Clare County Council to the steering group, or the two subcommittees of that Steering Group; which has been created to examine the restructuring of Shannon Airport or Shannon Development.

A North Clare student, supported by the Union of Students of Ireland, has filed a Supreme Court Appeal against “unfair and unjust cuts” to student grants.

RESIDENTS opposing the construction of large-scale wind farms in Clare have been invited to attend the first meeting to establish a new national wind energy group.

COUNTY Clare had one of the highest percentage of yes votes in the country in last week’s Fiscal Stability Treaty Referendum. Nearly two-thirds of voters in the county were in favour of the treaty after weeks of lobbying from the county’s four TDs.

PRODUCTION at the Finsa Forest Products Ltd Plant in Scariff may have come to an end in December 2010 but it seems any hopes of returning to production are now at an end as it has emerged the company has sold its production line.

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