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THE number of people presenting as homeless in Clare increased by 17% in 2009, a greater increase than in any other part of the Mid-West.

A MAN in his 50s was rescued from a reservoir in Kilkee on Monday after he fell in while fishing.

RETIRING Bishop Willie Walsh has said he feels his involvement in efforts by Ennis Town Council to commemorate children who have suffered abuse would not be beneficial.

Three babies are alive today because of their mothers’ insistence on getting a second opinion when pregnancy scans showed they had died in their wombs. The circumstances of two cases at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and University College Hospital in Galway have sent shockwaves around the country as many women who experienced miscarriages ask if similar mistakes could have been made in their cases.

An October general election is now on the cards, according to some of the most experienced commentators in the country.

AS the oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico turning the sea to black, the interconnectedness of our world becomes clearer and clearer. BP, the company responsible, has been almost aloof in its reaction and Barrack Obama has even suggested that they are not being fully truthful with his administration regarding the scale of the spill.

Clare’s chief superintendent and the Ennis Garda Division superintendent have called for an end to the traveller feud that is ongoing in Ennis before someone is killed.

THE Office of the President has confirmed that O’Callaghan’s Mills man Paddy Gleeson, who celebrated his 106th birthday on May 20 last, is Ireland’s oldest man. Paddy, who resides at Raheen Community Hospital in Tuamgraney, ranks seventh, however, among Ireland’s oldest people, with six women ahead of him on the list, the eldest of whom is 108. Paddy now boasts six Presidential medals for each birthday he has celebrated since turning 100 in 2004. He moved to Raheen Community Hospital in 2006 but lived independently there in Knockatullish until 2008 before he was welcomed into the main hospital. Like many birthdays before, the staff at the hospital rallied around and held a party for Paddy in the day centre for all his family and friends.He was formally presented with his sixth commemorative medal from President Mary McAleese by staff at the hospital and he was delighted at such an achievement. Speaking to The Clare Champion, Maggie Atkinson, acting director of …