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WITH the sun shining in Ennis this week, visitors to the town are lapping up the 36th Fleadh Nua. By day and by night, people are flocking to experience the best of traditional music, set dancing and atmosphere that the fleadh brings with it.

ONE of the rarest beetles in Europe was discovered at a new location on the Clare/Galway border at the weekend.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) policy of labelling local road signs by number and not by name has been likened to a “big brother mentality”, by Lissycasey Fianna Fáil councillor PJ Kelly, who also claims that Kilmaley has disappeared off the map on the Kilrush–Ennis Road.

A TWO-metre-high barrier in North Clare, has become the subject of an internet campaign to have it removed.

CLARE ICMSA chairman Martin McMahon has expressed his disbelief that Brazilian bottled water was on sale inside the Fraher Field GAA grounds in Dungarvan last Sunday, when Clare played Waterford at the venue in the opening round of the Munster senior football championship.

A PARTEEN publican was back pulling pints in his bar on Saturday night after recovering from an abduction attempt in West Africa early last week.

ALTHOUGH the six West Clare area county councillors have proposed to add another road-patching machine to the county council’s stock in the region, the local authority cannot afford to do so. There are currently two patching units available for the 1,200km of West Clare roads. In previous years, up to four units were utilised.