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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.

THE Government has been asked to implement a radical overhaul of the electricity grid connection system to provide the vital spark needed for a new €150 million windfarm approved by An Bord Pleanála.

PLANS to construct a €500 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal on a 104 hectare site on the Shannon Estuary are under threat over the proposed introduction of annual costs of €21m for the use of interconnectors.

MORE than a quarter of a century after she first got involved with Goal, Maura Lennon has been appointed as the charity’s new representative in the West of Ireland.

AER Arann has been recommended to review its maximum cross-wind limits when landing at Shannon Airport.