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WITH the latest opinion poll showing Fine Gael tantalisingly close to overall Dáil majority territory, the 2011 General Election is theirs to mess up.

Have our politicians who hope to lead us into the future learned nothing at all? They are still making the kind of promises that got us into the trouble we are in, promises they have no hope of fulfilling.

WITH the creation of jobs and the rejuvenation of industry to the forefront of all the parties’ pitches in the throes of the General Election campaign, there has been little acknowledgement that successive Irish governments of all shades have created and maintained some very effective factories over the last few decades  

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TWO leading figures in Clare Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have broken ranks and expressed dissatisfaction with their parties’ respective General Election strategies in the constituency.

CLARE County Council is to seek tenders for consultants to provide a new inter-jurisdictional strategy to identify sites for development on the Shannon Estuary.

THE availability of consultant anaesthetists who can be on site quickly during out-of-hours for emergency resuscitations of in-patients, has been raised by GPs and staff at Ennis hospital.