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THINGS didn’t end up as badly as once feared with Clare County Council recording an operational loss of €82,000 last year and not the €3million that was predicted in their half yearly report.

THE union involved in an industrial dispute with The Cliffs of Moher Centre Limited has said it expects the employer to honour its obligations to staff even though the company claims this is unviable.

CLARE County Councillors have decided not to go ahead with a live broadcast of its statutory meetings, despite a proposal from Councillor Brian Meaney.

A CLARE mother-of-two, who is facing the prospect of having her family home repossessed, has called on the Government to put a new scheme in place to help people in financial difficulty to restructure their loans.

COMMENT THEY have a habit in Fine Gael of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. There they have been for the first time in history consistently well ahead of Fianna Fáil in all the opinion polls and in all local, European and byelections.

THE day the news rang out that support for An Taoiseach Brian Cowen dropped to 21%, he told the media in Clare he was still confident that the Fianna Fáil party remained an “excellent” force in the county.

AN iconic image of the Cliffs of Moher appeared this week as one of National Geographic’s photos of the day.

AN Ennis businessman has become the first person to circumnavigate Ireland on a jet-ski after spending almost 60 hours at sea in often treacherous conditions.