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TWO key electricity-generating stations in Clare will not be sold as part of the Government’s part-privatisation of some State assets, according to Deputy Michael McNamara.

THE national Health Service Executive (HSE) has been accused of pursuing a “vendetta” against health services in the Mid-West by imposing an extra €19 million of cuts in community health services in the region.

ENNIS Chamber and Ennis Development Forum are to facilitate a meeting for interested parties to outline the appeals process after developers behind the controversial €30million retail development lodged an appeal to the planning refusal with An Bord Pleanála.

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Editorial

Controversial claims by a well-known Irish psychologist that parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may be in some way responsible for this disorder have been strongly rejected by Clare psychologists.Dr Tony Humphreys, who worked in County Clare for a number of years, has drawn a storm of protest from parents and national and international health experts, who have dismissed a number of assertions he made in a recent Irish Examiner article.In his article, Dr Humphreys stated, “In studies in 1997 and 2001 it was found that the children and grandchildren of engineers were more likely to be autistic and that mathematicians had higher rates of autism than other professions. What is shocking is that Professor Simon Baron-Cohen [director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University] and the team of researchers are one: assuming that autism is a scientific fact and, two: missing the glaringly obvious fact that if the adults they researched live predominantly in their heads …