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PERMAFROST Solutions, the worldwide leader in refrigeration enhancement technology, has this week announced plans to begin operations in Ireland. The company expects to invest €1 million into Ireland and aims to create 30 new jobs in County Clare in 2010.

CLARE-based charitable and voluntary organisations have benefited to the tune of €13,050 collectively from the District Court poor box.

THE Mid-West Health Service Executive (HSE) has reassured relatives of Clare psychiatric patients that staffing in all mental health facilities will be adequate over the Christmas period.

Following the retirement of Clare Garda Chief Mary Fitzgerald earlier this year, The Clare Champion has learned that the Chief Superintendent of Galway, Donal O’Cualáin has had the Clare division added to his administrative role.

ANECDOTAL evidence suggests that Clare may not be seeing a pronounced rise in Church-going, despite a recent report, which found a noticeable jump in 2009 across the country.

STAFF at Shannon Airport are set to ballot on a deal on cost-cutting, reached between the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) and unions at the Labour Relations Commission last week.

CHRISTMAS can mean polar opposites to different people. Most families, especially those with young children, embrace the festival and all its trappings but for those recently bereaved, suffering illness or living in isolation, it can be a very trying time.

I know it is the season of goodwill but I am sure you will agree that the goodwill should not be confined to Christmas.