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Clare County Council’s guide price for affordable houses in Kilkee has been described as “false and unrealistic” by two West Clare county councillors. Affordable houses are sold at a discount on the market price to people who cannot afford to buy a house on the open market.

THEY rolled through the main streets of Ennis with their high powered John Deere, Massey Ferguson and Zetor tractors. They caused a lot of interest but no major traffic disruptions and one hour later, all  IFA protesting farmers had departed for their various home destinations.

REPORTS about a possible downgrading of the ambulance service in East Clare have been refuted by the Mid-West Health Service Executive (HSE). East Clare Councillor Joe Cooney has expressed concern about reports that the HSE were allegedly planning to remove full-time and on-call ambulance cover from the Scariff Ambulance Station on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night between 8pm and 8am.

THE pressure is on the Government Minister, Ministers of State and TDs of the region to make a stand against the Aer Lingus dismantling of the Shannon transatlantic base.

Concern has been expressed over the suspension of scans from a new €0.5 million  diagnostic CAT machine at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis. The Mid-Western Hospital Development Trust provided funding for the capital cost of the CAT following a campaign mounted by former Ennis hospital consultant and board member, Gerry Byrnes, over the past 16 years.

THE Greens have once again displayed a maturity in politics that some might not have expected from them some years ago. By voting overwhelmingly for the new Programme for Government last Saturday, they have again shown that they have grown up in Irish politics. They first showed that maturity more than two years ago when they originally agreed to share power with Fianna Fáil.

Cowardly and inexcusable is possibly the best way to describe the actions of those men who perpetrate violence against their wives or partners and their children.

CLARE will be taking part in a Regional Housing Strategy, which will see residents of Moyross and South Hill rehoused in the county. However, according to officials, there will only be a small number of arrivals and the county council will be able to vet people. In September 2008, Shannon Town Council venomously opposed Clare’s participation in the Regional Housing Strategy, with Councillor Tony Mulcahy warning that the “dregs of society” could be dumped in the town.