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THE HSE has apologised to a Sixmilebridge woman and her family for the second time in recent weeks, this time over a breach of the Data Protection Act.

RECENT health and safety-related work carried out by Clare County Council on the iconic Cliff Walk in Kilkee has been likened to the 1970s situation comedy, Fawlty Towers.

USING and sometimes abusing political office to look after one’s own constituency has long been an unfortunate reality of governance in Ireland and Shannon is currently suffering because of parish-pump politics, Clare’s first citizen has claimed.

CHILDREN are going to school worried about their family’s financial situation, a senior teachers’ representative in Clare has claimed. Their worries were little eased on Monday and Tuesday as Budget 2012 brought more bad news for the country’s youngest citizens.

THE Clare branch of People with Disabilities Ireland (PwDI) is set to close in the new year after funding for the organisation was withdrawn by the Government. The branch is one of 22 across the country facing closure, with Dermot Hayes, network officer in Clare saying, “I am very angry at this, the minister has taken what is considered the easy option to cut our funding. We’re not going to be the ones going out on the streets, we don’t have the clout of other organisations.”

THERE was yet more bad news for employment in Shannon, as the closure of Sykes is set to see around another 130 jobs lost.

ENNIS’ Shop Local campaign has made the shortlist of RTÉ’s The Business Christmas Towns Competition, The Clare Champion can reveal.