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THE new Clare Heritage Plan (2011-2017), which has three overall aims, will be implemented at a cost of €500,000 excluding staff costs, it was revealed at the launch in Kilrush this week.

A MAJORITY of Clare Fianna Fáil councillors have broken ranks with party headquarters by insisting the party should put forward an internal candidate for the Presidential election.

CLARE County Council has said it got “more than value for money” from the €50,000 it invested in an event at the Cliffs of Moher that organisers have now “postponed”.

A NORTH Clare woman is among a number of students taking part in a Union of Students of Ireland (USI) High Court challenge to the reform of the maintenance grants system, which will see some students lose up to 60% of their entitlements this year.

KILRUSH Community School principal Rock Kirwan, who is starting his 20th year in the role, has warned that if the pupil-teacher ratio rises in Irish schools, school curriculums will suffer, with less of an emphasis likely in science subjects.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate Michael D Higgins closed this year’s Cumann Merriman School on Changing Irish Childhoods on Sunday emphasising that achieving “a fulfilling Irish childhood will require more than legal and constitutional change, it will require a change of consciousness at every level”.

CLARE County Council is seeking expressions of interest for the future use of the historic station house in Sixmilebridge.

A 31-year-old man, charged with the murder of a law student from Ballyea, is to be tried in the Central Criminal Court.