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Fine Gael’s Tony Mulcahy has been elected to the Labour Panel of the Seanad.

It didn’t take Clare card sharp Niall Smyth long to drop his poker face after scooping a cool €650,000 at the Paddy Power Irish Poker Open this week.

BUNRATTY-based Eoin Gavin is the new president of the Irish Road Haulage Association and this week he launched a broadside at the previous Government, saying it had ignored the industry.

THE planning process for changes to a controversial North Clare corner is likely to begin later this year, according to a senior council official.

A VISIT by 40 influential Austrian farm leaders to North Clare this week could result in increased trade links between the two areas.

GARDAÍ in Ennis are planning to link into the commercial CCTV systems across the town tying them into the state-of-the-art CCTV garda system already in place, it was revealed at a recent business watch meeting.

THE 90th anniversaries of two North Clare ambushes are to be marked later this summer. The Moanreel and the Monananagh ambushes, which took place between Inagh and Ennistymon are set to be remembered at a ceremony in June. Locals are currently working on erecting a plaque to mark the area where the two War of Independence ambushes took place.

ONE of Ireland’s best known golf clubs has brought its accounts out of the red and onto the green over the past year, it emerged this week, despite problems caused by extreme weather and the volcanic ash cloud.