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CLARE adolescents, who are suffering from a wide range of psychiatric problems are being admitted inappropriately to the acute adult psychiatric unit at Ennis hospital, according to Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Moosajee Bhamjee.

CLARE County Council expects its income coming from the Central Waste Management Facility at Ballyduff Beg will decline by around €12,000 a week in 2011.

SHANNON Airport needs to be promoted as a tourist attraction in its own right, which could lead to increasing visitor numbers.

UNWRAPPING their Christmas presents last year, the Malone family didn’t expect this year they would be spending the festive season in New York in a desperate bid to save their daughter’s life.

The West on Track campaign has called on the Government to commit funding to proceed with the second phase of the Western Rail Corridor before the general election. The call came after Minister for Social Protection, Eamon Ó Cuív, said he hoped to see planning and design of Phase 2 of the WRC completed in 2011.

Indicating that perhaps discernible traces of the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle are not completely extinct, Dromoland Castle manager Mark Nolan received an interesting call from U2 manager Paul McGuinness last week.

FINE Gael has yet to reveal the names of any additional candidates it will run alongside the sitting TDs in the next General Election. While it is anticipated that the party will run at least three candidates, the pool of possible candidates deepened this week as former Mayor Tony Mulcahy expressed his interest in becoming a Fine Gael TD for the county.

THE sight of a snow plough attempting to dislodge tonnes of snow on the Strand Line in Kilkee, four days before Christmas, underlines the severity of the winter weather even in coastal communities.