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TWENTY-eight years has always seemed like a long time to me. However, it had not felt to me like a long time since I was last carried in my father’s arms squealing and screaming like a wounded animal having been stung by a wasp. In the intervening 28 years, I have studiously avoided repeating the experience because I remember the pain as being almost life threatening. Summer days sitting in Clare supping a pint, I have been almost pathological in my desire to avoid the black and yellow monsters when they come into view.

MONEYPOINT ESB power station has been ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to submit a schedule to the agency before Thursday, August 19 detailing how non-compliance issues at the station will be addressed and rectified.

A CORK man has become the first professor of surgery appointed to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis as a result of an initiative involving the University of Limerick and the Health Service Executive.

A 22-year-old Ethiopian athlete living in Clare was attacked and left unconscious last Thursday after he was set upon as he was out running just outside Meelick.

The public are being urged to be vigilant following a number of scams carried out in the county over the past week.

AER Lingus cabin crew represented by Impact have voted in favour of industrial action in protest against the implementation of new working arrangements but have said that the travelling public should not be discommoded.

A SECOND allocation of tickets may be issued to 59 parishes in the Killaloe Diocese for those who wish to attend the ordination of Bishop Elect Fr Kieran O’Reilly in Ennis Cathedral on Sunday, August 29 at 3pm.