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A NORTH Clare publisher has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award for the third year in-a-row, it was announced this week.
Read More »Locals should vote on boundary
THE boundary line between Clare and Limerick has been the subject of endless debate and controversy over several generations.
Read More »Why I could not support Blair protest
If I were 40 or 50 years younger, I too would be outside the Eason bookshop in Dublin protesting against Tony Blair and throwing eggs at him.
Read More »The bad old days are far from behind us
Further tales of financial woe continued to pour from Ireland this week with Deputy Joe Carey of Fine Gael claiming that 40,000 people in Ireland are now in mortgage arrears.
Read More »Twins boost junior roll in the ’Bridge
IT was a case of two by four starting in junior infants in St Finnachta’s National School, Sixmilebridge on Wednesday morning.
Read More »Limerick to take a slice of Clare
THE population of Clare is to be slashed by 3,000 people if recommendations in a new report are approved by Cabinet.
Read More »Bishop O’Reilly’s ordination viewed worldwide
MORE than 5,000 people logged onto the Ennis Parish website on Sunday last to watch the ordination ceremony of the new Bishop of Killaloe, Kieran O’Reilly.
Read More »Newmarket man conquers world’s deepest cave
NEWMARKET’S Tim O’Connell is one of a handful of Irish people ever to reach the world’s lowest point as part of an expedition that descended the 2,191m Krubera-Voronja cave in August.
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