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In days gone by, England’s difficulties were Ireland’s opportunities. So the 1916 Rising took place while England was having a spot of bother in France and other parts of Europe.

SHANNON Town Council has called on the Government to introduce a two-year moratorium from the time mortgage holders go into arrears, before repossession proceedings can be taken.

ON the eve of the British general election, Clare Fianna Fáil TD Timmy Dooley and his Galway colleague Frank Fahey almost precipitated a general election here.

SUCCESSIVE Fianna-Fáil-led governments have been accused of allocating Clare “crumbs from the cabinet table” for capital spending in sport, education and non-national roads.

DETAILS of a proposed pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES) scheme and visitor centre in the Burren were outlined at a public meeting in Ballyvaughan on Wednesday night.

GUBU banking practices in the Celtic Tiger years were behind massive overzoning in Clare and other counties, according to Green Party Councillor Brian Meaney.

SHANNON Development hopes to create 1,500 new jobs by 2013, it claimed in a submission to the Draft Mid-West Regional Planning Guidelines (RPGs) for 2010-22.