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THE rush by healthcare workers to retire in advance of the Government’s public service pension deadline at the end of February could leave Mid-West hospitals hopelessly understaffed.

If you were to go by the papers over the past week you would think that our biggest enemies are not the Germans nor the French nor the English, nor even the bankers. You would think that the biggest enemies of the Irish people were, wait for it… the Irish people themselves.

If you were to go by the papers over the past week you would think that our biggest enemies are not the Germans nor the French nor the English, nor even the bankers. You would think that the biggest enemies of the Irish people were, wait for it… the Irish people themselves.

David Cameron’s European hissy fit in the face of euro-saving reform is an interesting action to study when you delve a little below the surface. On the face of it, he has merely bowed to the rabidly Euro-skeptic element that has so long been a defining element of the British Conservative Party.

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.