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DOUBTS have been cast doubt on whether or not Kilkee will have a tourist office in 2011.

It was a record-breaking week for lifesavers in North Clare when for the first time since it was founded Doolin Coast Guard attended four incidents in 24 hours.

THE finishing touches were being made to the vestments that the Bishop Elect Fr Kieran O’Reilly will wear for his ordination at the Poor Clare Sisters’ Convent in Ennis this week.

BISHOP Willie Walsh, in his final week leading the diocese, has acknowledged that he is very worried that the ongoing feud between traveller families in the Ennis area has the potential to reach the level of the feuds between members of the settled community in cities such as Limerick and Dublin.

The Financial Services Ombudsman has ordered a finance company to repay €25,081 to a South-East Clare couple, whose car was seized last August.

Fears have been expressed that services for psychiatric patients throughout Clare could be reduced next week if a nursing union proceeds with its threat to withdraw from working overtime in the Clare Mental Health Service.

Clare County Council has issued enforcement proceedings on Mountshannon Community Council in respect of non-compliance with planning conditions for the constructed pre-school and after-school facility in the village.

Mayor of Clare Christy Curtin has expressed surprise that he wasn’t invited to accompany a delegation to the Milwaukee Irish Festival in Wisconsin this week.