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Men running around with cars and flipping giant tyres weighing over 70 stone will be just some of the sights on show in Parteen this weekend as some of the world’s top strength athletes compete in an international event.

CHIEF executive officer of Barnardos Fergus Finlay isn’t afraid of rolling up his sleeves and getting stuck in when it comes to fundraising.So much so that he is undertaking a sponsored weight-loss programme to raise funds for Barnardos.

COMMENT TWO weeks ago, I wrote here that Fianna Fáil had no respect for the Green Party, their partners in Government. I should have gone further but I didn’t know then what I know now – the Greens have no respect for themselves.

EDITORIAL

ELEVEN therapists from a renowned North American Speech and Language Centre will present innovative programmes for parents and teachers of children with special needs in Ennis next month.

IT’S important that the country experienced balanced development, with rural communities not being forgotten, Minister Éamon Ó Cuív told Clare County councillors this week.

COMMENT Good Friday is traditionally the driest day on the Irish calendar. That is the theory at least. Christmas Day, when the general public are also denied entry to the pubs and taverns of the country, tends to have a booze-soaked tinge to it of the homespun variety but Good Friday is an altogether more pious affair.

A €14 million upgrading of infrastructure and equipment at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis copperfastens its retention as an acute medical hospital in the future, Deputy Timmy Dooley has claimed.