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CLARE Water Safety are running a Design a Logo Competition, open to all fifth and sixth-class pupils in the county’s 122 primary schools to mark this year’s water safety week.

PROBLEMS in accessing social welfare are forcing emigrants, even legal ones, into very difficult circumstances.

THE Shannon Region is receiving vital support in this time of recession with a new high-powered US-based business group pledging to champion its cause Stateside.

I don’t know if many people would agree with Michael McDowell’s claim during the week that the media treats politicians as a ‘sub-class’.

Sitting on the train back to Edinburgh from London last Sunday, having attended a friend’s wedding, Helen and I were struck by the ebullience of one of the passengers sitting at the table opposite. She was enthusiastic on a monumental scale, seemingly eager to speak to anybody that wandered within audible distance of her seat. The people who held tickets for the three places around her gradually appeared and as their conversation spread simultaneously through its natural progression and the carriage, we learned her back-story and that of one of her new-found companions.

MORE than five years after Emer O’Loughlin’s body was found in a burnt-out caravan on the Clare/Galway border, gardaí have confirmed the young artist was murdered.

TENSIONS between feuding Traveller families erupted on the streets of Ennis this week when a man sustained serious slash injuries after being attacked by a number of people.

THERE was high-speed drama in Ennis on Wednesday evening when gardaí pursued a stolen jeep through the town.