The Clare Champion Clare news, sport, entertainment and local notes
THE first three months of the year saw a 3.6% drop in the asking price for houses in Clare, according to the latest daft.ie report. This was a greater drop than the average across the country, which was 3.1%.
Read More »Concern over Fergus Park walkway plan
PLANS by the Office of Public Works to create a new walkway at the back of the estate has raised concerns among Fergus Park residents.
Read More »Hope for families over Vietnamese adoptions
Hopes are high that adoptive couples who have been stuck in limbo since the suspension of a bilateral agreement with Vietnam will benefit from efforts to re-open the South-East Asian state for adoption.
Read More »Trolley watch
The Trolley Watch figures, released on a daily basis by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), make for grim reading.
Read More »The more things change the more they stay the same
Fianna Fáil is dead! Long live Fianna Fáil! Who needs the Soldiers of Destiny when you have Fine Gael and Labour adopting Fianna Fáil policies? Now doing the very things they condemned the then Government for doing before the election last month.
Read More »When will the penny finally drop?
Watching Prime Time last week I had a very bizarre experience. While I didn’t actually weep I found my eyes filling with tears as I sat through the figures they quoted regarding the other potential uses for the money being used to bail out the Irish banks.
Read More »Massive search continues for missing woman
Investigations by the Garda Technical Bureau are ongoing on Thursday after the disappearance of a woman from Ballyvaughan at the weekend.
Read More »A dream come true for Jordan
A BRAVE little boy from Sixmilebridge became the first ever child to see inside the Share a Dream Foundation’s specially-designed Dream Machine, when it was launched in Clare this week.That wasn’t the only dream come true though for four-year-old, Jordan Perez, who suffers from the rare genetic disorder spinal muscular atrophy type II. At the launch in the West County Hotel, Ennis, Jordan, who is a massive Thomas the Tank Engine fan, was thrilled to discover he and his family would be flying to Thomasland in England this weekend where he will get to meet the Fat Controller. The idea for the Dream Machine came about after Share a Dream gave six-year-old Jason Lorrigan from Kildysart some of the best days of his life last year. Jason, who has spent many birthdays in hospital, was treated to a very special birthday party and a helicopter ride.The foundation, which has been making dreams come true for hundreds of sick and disabled …
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