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CLARE GAA is facing a major challenge as the dire economic situation is forcing many young players to emigrate.

A 31-year-old man was arrested in a Kilkee bar on Tuesday afternoon in connection with the deaths of two children and two women in a house in Newcastle West.

WITH intense speculation that the talks between the Government, the IMF, European Central Bank and the European Commission will lead to a financial bail-out, there has been an air of despondency hanging over Irish public discourse this week.

IF Travellers are responsible for damage to accommodation units provided to them, they should be held accountable, this week’s meeting of the Clare County Council Housing, Social and Cultural Services Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) heard.

A 25-year-old Cooraclare man sustained serious facial, chest and hip injuries while serving with the British army’s Irish Guards regiment in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Ciarán O’Sullivan, from Brisla, was injured at 6am on Tuesday morning when he was caught in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast.

Twenty-five jobs are to go at the Roche Ireland plant in Clarecastle, with the company hoping to secure the job losses through a voluntary redundancy package.

The father of a North Clare teenager who died by suicide earlier this year has broken his silence. Jeremy Prince, whose daughter Phoebe died in January, will speak publically as part of a documentary being screened on RTÉ next week.