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EDITORIAL NOT for the first time, political promises have a hollow ring to them, particularly those vouched for the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis.

THE CIAN EDGE The results of the Irish Times Behaviour and Attitudes poll published recently make for very refreshing reading. The stats reveal a tolerant, mature nation with clearly formed ideas on morality, ethics and social progress.

THE promoters of a proposed windfarm development in West Clare, believed to involve an investment of about €100 million for the local economy, have insisted there is “nothing sinister” in the provision of a confidentiality clause in its lease agreement with prospective landowners.

RESIDENTS of a house in North Clare were this week found to have been living with levels of cancer-causing radon gas equivalent to having 12 chest X-rays per day.

A MESSAGE in a bottle, released into the Atlantic Ocean in April 2009, 20 miles out of Port Canaveral, Florida, was found 6,000km away, in Kilbaha last month.

SHANNON Airport has emphatically denied that it is facing the loss of its US troop transfer business.

TWO Ennis-based gardaí were honoured on Wednesday with national bravery awards for their part in rescuing a young woman from the River Fergus over two years ago.