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CONFUSION over services remaining in Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis following the centralisation of acute in-patient cardiology services to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick next February has prompted calls for an independent review of acute hospitals in the region.

IT has been an annus horribilis for tourism, nowhere more so than Clare but there are green shoots appearing according to Tourism Ireland chief executive, Niall Gibbons.

CUTS outlined in last week’s budget will price some Clare students out of third-level education, a local TD has claimed.

PROPOSALS for a €6 million pier at Doolin have been revised and scaled down in a bid to minimise any potential impact on the world-class surfing waves off the county’s coast.

WITH yet another big freeze predicted for the end of the week, concerns about the safety of the county’s roads have been raised by Clare county councillors.

ADDRESSING Shannon Chamber of Commerce members at Dromoland Castle last week, prospective future Taoiseach Enda Kenny vowed he would scrap the air travel tax completely if Fine Gael take power.

With frost and snow predicted to hit the West coast at the end of this week and into the weekend, Ennis Superintendent Peter Duff has issued a general warning to motorists and pedestrians venturing out in inclement conditions.

Plans have been lodged for the construction of a chapel, the final phase of development work at the dedicated daycare Clare 250 Cancer Centre in Ballygriffey Woods, near Ruan.