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Gilmore’s Labour can smell blood. Buoyed by positive poll results they are planning their rise to power and realising that their pool of potentially electable candidates is not as deep or as rich as they might wish it to be.

IN a week where research presented at the Road Safety Authority (RSA) Annual Lecture on Road Safety revealed that drug-driving could be as serious a problem as drink-driving in Ireland, the head of Clare’s Garda Road Traffic Division, Inspector John Galvin, warned instances of drug-driving are on the increase in Clare.

What we need in this country now is somebody who will knock heads together. A national consensus on how to get us out of the economic mess we are in is vital.

Róisín Kelly-Bennett from Newmarket-on-Fergus was this week announced as the overall winner of the Limerick City Enterprise Board’s National Enterprise Awards. She will now compete for the national title in November.

THE future of the landfill service at the Ballyduffbeg Waste Facility in Inagh remains unresolved following a discussion at Monday’s October meeting of Clare County Council.

THE death of a Clarecastle man, Thomas Keenan, in an ambulance outside the Mid-West Regional Hospital, Ennis in the early hours of Wednesday, September 22, has given rise to contradictions regarding the arrival time of his family at the hospital and details on phone calls relating to the incident.