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COMMENT BARACK Obama’s success in finally getting his healthcare reforms approved by the American House of Representatives last Sunday night has to be recognised as a political landmark.

OVER 100 patients with dementia in Cappahard Lodge, Ennis, St Joseph’s Geriatric Hospital and Carrigoran Nursing Home, Newmarket-on-Fergus, are being assessed as part of an innovative action research project on the palliative care needs of people with non-malignant diseases.

Last year was the worst year for Clare hotels since the 1980s and with many carrying heavy overdrafts from the winter, businesses could be forced to close if tourist numbers don’t increase in 2010. This is according to the chairman of the local branch of the Irish Hotels Federation.

THE future looks uncertain for Aer Lingus staff at Shannon this week, particularly those employed as cabin crew.

Clare County Council’s expenditure of €400,000 on legal fees contesting Equality Act complaints, has sparked disputed claims as to who is to blame for accruing this spending.

Clare is in the top five in the country when it comes to the number of prefabs in use in its primary school education system.

MAYOR of Ennis Councillor Frankie Neylon has claimed that Ennis is awash with drugs and that he has personally seen things on the streets that indicate drug activity.