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THOUSANDS of manufacturing jobs will be put at risk if Government bodies insist on the full implementation of existing European Union wastewater directives, Mayor of Clare, Councillor Tony Mulcahy has claimed.

THE Government’s decision to suspend negotiations on a new bilateral inter-country adoption agreement with Vietnam, has devastated at least 30 prospective Clare parents.

A Clare woman who visited Haiti with aid agency Concern has expressed her distress at the aftermath of the earthquake that recently hit the country and has urged all those who can afford to contribute to the relief effort to do so.

BISHOP Willie Walsh said he would not seek to have any significant influence on his successor as Bishop of Killaloe.

Continental Airlines has put it up to Aer Lingus by announcing stepped-up summer flights on the Shannon-New York run in advance of next week’s unveiling of Aer Lingus services.

The vacuum created by Aer Lingus continuing to leave Shannon Airport dangling regarding the future of their Mid-West operation has opened the door for other airlines to step in and capitalise at their expense.

OFFICIAL responses to concerns about dog fouling dangers around the national school and wheelchair access to a housing estate provoked different levels of satisfaction for Sixmilebridge Councillor PJ Ryan at this week’s meeting of Shannon Electoral Area councillors.

“It was real, it was raw and it was what life is all about.”  The words of parish priest Fr Harry Bohan in reaction to the opening talk in the Meaning to Life programme underway in Sixmilebridge.