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THE findings of the Rape and Justice Report by Conor Hanly of NUIG make for chilling reading. It is difficult to identify one particular area which is more shocking than another but a number of points leap out.

BISHOP Willie Walsh is to issue a formal apology over the coming days to victims of clerical sexual abuse over comments he made on a national radio programme on Monday about his stance on calls for the resignation of Bishop of Limerick, Donal Murray.

MORE medical aids should be recycled, a local councillor has claimed, after it emerged that the HSE spent €3.78 million on equipment in the county over a three-year period.

AN Australian man, who has been campaigning since 1982 to find the bodies of Australian soldiers missing in action in South Korea, is seeking to make contact with relatives of Ennis native Corporal William Kevin Murphy, who went missing in action on April 24, 1951 during the Korean War.

AN Australian man, who has been campaigning since 1982 to find the bodies of Australian soldiers missing in action in South Korea, is seeking to make contact with relatives of Ennis native Corporal William Kevin Murphy, who went missing in action on April 24, 1951 during the Korean War.

TWO St Vincent de Paul (SVP) accomodation schemes were offically opened in Ennis on Monday. The Minister of State for Housing and Local Services, Michael Finneran, formally opened the Laurel Lodge Accommodation Centre and 12 social housing units in the Westbourne Estate on Watery Road. Also in attendance at the opening of the two facilities was the national president of SVP, Mairéad Bushnell.

COMMUNITY welfare officers in Clare will still be extremely busy over the coming weeks assessing and distributing financial support to flood victims in Ennis and South-East Clare who have suffered substantial damage to their homes.