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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.

ENNIS will be pedestrianised this Saturday, the first of five days when the town will be closed to vehicles in the run up to Christmas.

THE ARCHBISHOP of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin has pledged to write to the Bishop of Limerick, Donal Murray and all other auxiliary bishops who served in Dublin and are named in the Dublin Archdiocese report.

ARCHBISHOP KEVIN McNamara was one of four archbishops who handled child sex abuse complaints “badly”, according to the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin (Murphy Report).

THE combination of flooding and the absence of a public sewerage treatment plant have been blamed for the introduction of a precautionary boil notice for residents in South-East Clare and County Limerick.

MANAGEMENT at Aer Lingus unveiled it as its “Greenfield” scheme, implying by the name that a new start was to be made. But unions, which were presented with the latest survival plan only on October 7, have dubbed it “the Aer Lingus Snake” amid fears that the former Irish national airline is uprooting by stealth in moves already in motion to set up new bases in the US and UK, which could open the door to wholesale outsourcing of offshore staff.

A REPORT into the €10 Air Travel Tax (ATT) has found that it will result in hundreds of millions of lost revenue for the Government and thousands of job losses.

AER Lingus could be winging its way to the rescue by keeping its Shannon-New York service flying through the winter and then helping to plug the east-bound gap, if Ryanair carries out its threat of a 75% reduction in flights from April. But, there is going to be a price to pay at Shannon.