News

Three bouncing Clare babies arrived into the world on New Year’s Day at the Mid-Western Regional Maternity Hospital in Limerick.

DOZENS of Clare primary and secondary schools will remain closed this Thursday and Friday due to the icy weather conditions that have continued into the first week of 2010.

COLOURFUL East Galway entrepreneur Declan Ganley spent almost 21 times more than Scariff barrister and part-time farmer, Michael McNamara trying to get elected to the European Parliament in the North-West constituency last year.

The widower of a Cratloe woman strangled to death in a Limerick hotel just over two years ago is suing the State for negligence.

AER Lingus is still playing games with Shannon, as the Oireachtas Committee on Transport has learned in recent weeks along with Shannon Airport director, Martin Moroney. That’s the view of Clare Fine Gael TD, Pat Breen, who says that he has a great deal of sympathy for Mr Moroney’s position in the complex situation.

THE Government has introduced wide-ranging cutbacks in the amount of salaries and expenses paid to deputies from the start of the New Year in the wake of deteriorating public finances and criticism of remuneration for Oireachtas members.

WHILE ice builds up on our roads with temperatures recorded between 0ºC and –8ºC over the last week, a homeless man is battling these elements in nothing more than a tent and under a duvet that is frozen solid.

CLARE County Council is confident that it has sufficient reserves of salt with which to grit the main artery routes throughout the county, until at least beginning of next week.