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THE National Cancer Screening Service contacted Clare county manager Tom Coughlan on Thursday to express its regret for any offence or embarrassment caused by incorrect information provided to Health Minister Mary Harney concerning the council delaying the provision of a mobile screening unit in the county.

A MAYORAL reception was held in honour of local, national and international organisations for people with disabilities, at Monday’s meeting of Clare County Council.

GARDAÍ in Ennis are investigating an incident of criminal damage at the Rectory and St Columba’s Church on Bindon Street early on Wednesday morning.  

AN ACTION plan has been introduced at a nursing home in Kilrush after an inspection undertaken by the Health and Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) last February identified a number of concerns.

TWO deceased gardaí from Lisdoonvarna and one from Gort were honoured this week at the opening of the Garda Síochána Memorial Garden in Dublin.

VOLCANIC ash spewing from Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, which has played havoc with travel through Irish airspace, has turned to gold dust for Portugal.

There is a fierce hatred out there for Fianna Fáil among the general public that we have never experienced in this country before.

Dire times for democracy it seems. Wherever it happens those who fear and mistrust it seem either to ignore, suppress or crush it. Whatever the intricate rights or wrongs of the Thai “red” protest, the government’s decision to increase the force of its response is hardly helpful or constructive.