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ENNIS Book Club Festival has once again attracted some of the biggest best-selling international authors. Author of the globally successful A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka will be a special guest at Ennis Book Club Festival, which will take place from March 1 to March 3, 2013.

Clare County Council is seeking a solution to prevent the dumping of more than 40 tonnes of brown waste collected at its central landfill waste management facility at Ballyduffbeg, Inagh.

A YOUNG Cratloe man was part of a group that recently presented a blueprint for a “new Ireland” to President Michael D Higgins.

Following almost 40 years of delivering letters in East Clare, Flagmount man Joe Noonan has received quite a different calling as he embarks on a new path in retirement, taking him from post to paint.  

Three consultants from University College Hospital, Galway have been removed from the inquiry to ascertain the events leading up to the tragic death of 31-year-old Indian woman Savita Halappanavar following a miscarriage at the hospital.

KILRUSH town councillor Tom Prendeville has predicted that Ireland may soon resemble Germany in the 1930s, when the Third Reich was established under National Socialist German Workers Party leader Adolf Hitler.

THE abolition of town councils with statutory powers such as Ennis has been branded unconstitutional by one local councillor, who has called for the consideration of a legal challenge to the plans.

A COROFIN carer, who went beyond the call of duty looking after elderly patients in Galway, has scooped a prestigious national award.