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A NORTH Clare Councillor has called for an amendment to the planning regulations regarding the rights of homeowners if their property is designated as a protected structure.

A TRADITIONAL musician with Clare roots will have a street named after her in New York. Joanie Madden, whose mother Nellie Meade is from Miltown Malbay, “not the shop, Meade’s, the farmer Meades” she clarifies, was named on the Bronx Walk of Fame 2010. Inductees to the Walk of Fame are announced annually as part of Bronx Week where the borough’s heritage is celebrated with a series of events culminating in a parade. For the first year, the street sign is hung in honour outside the Bronx County Courthouse. Then it is allocated a permanent position on a street along the borough’s Grand Concourse. Joanie attended the prestigious ceremony with her family at the end of last month. In receiving the accolade, she finds herself in good company. Previous inductees to the Walk of Fame include Scrubs star, Judy Reyes, CSI Miami’s Adam Michael Rodríguez, legendary entertainers, Bobby Darin and Luther Vandross, film director, Stanley Kubrick, and former US secretary …

THINGS didn’t end up as badly as once feared with Clare County Council recording an operational loss of €82,000 last year and not the €3million that was predicted in their half yearly report.

THE union involved in an industrial dispute with The Cliffs of Moher Centre Limited has said it expects the employer to honour its obligations to staff even though the company claims this is unviable.

CLARE County Councillors have decided not to go ahead with a live broadcast of its statutory meetings, despite a proposal from Councillor Brian Meaney.

A CLARE mother-of-two, who is facing the prospect of having her family home repossessed, has called on the Government to put a new scheme in place to help people in financial difficulty to restructure their loans.

COMMENT THEY have a habit in Fine Gael of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. There they have been for the first time in history consistently well ahead of Fianna Fáil in all the opinion polls and in all local, European and byelections.

THE day the news rang out that support for An Taoiseach Brian Cowen dropped to 21%, he told the media in Clare he was still confident that the Fianna Fáil party remained an “excellent” force in the county.