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Clare County Council is confident that there will be sufficient capacity in the Kilkishen Wastewater Treatment Plan (WWTP) to cope with pending developments, despite a projection indicating that difficulties could arise in the future if all planned construction went ahead.

PUPILS at Seamount College, Kinvara will stage the musical Seussical in Kilcornan Hall, Clarinbridge next week.Seussical is a musical based on the stories of Dr Seuss.

THE organisation responsible for the conservation of wild salmon has expressed “very significant concern” about the scale of a proposed deep-sea salmon farm off the North Clare coast.

BUSINESSES in Shannon are paying multiples of the commercial rates of similar operations in Nenagh, this week’s meeting of Shannon Town Council heard.

A call for a rethink by the Government and local authorities on the need for the controversial second phase of the Northern Distributor Road was requested this week by the Deputy Mayor of Clare, Councillor Pascal Fitzgerald.

TWO-year-old dog Levi returned to his County Clare roots recently after been abandoned and dumped at eight-weeks-old. Now part of a loving family and living in Wales, Levi visited the carers who helped him survive a range of illnesses, including one that proved fatal for his little sister.

Disperse: the anatomy of the Canada Cross shootings in Miltown Malbay in April 1920, is the title of the second lecture in the Old Kilfarboy Society’s 2012-2013 series. The talk will be delivered by local historian John Treacy in the Malbay on Tuesday, November 13 at 8pm.

THE current system of charges at Lees Road was the target of some criticism at Monday’s Ennis Town Council meeting.