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PUPILS from Gort Community School performed at the Amnesty International Human Rights Day celebration to remember the creation, 63 years ago, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Bishop of Killaloe, Kieran O’Reilly, will join with the parishioners of Lisdeen church in Kilkee on Sunday to dedicate a newly installed stained glass window to St Flannan, patron of the Killaloe Diocese.

THERE was a record attendance at this year’s Ennis Tidy Towns Local Awards ceremony with more than 250 people gathering in the Civic Room of Ennis Town Council for the event.

A Burren Outdoor Centre instructor will travel to France in January as part of the Leonardo Da Vinci Work Placement Programme.

THE next few weeks will see a number of top-quality concerts in the East Clare area.

DEVELOPERS behind controversial proposals to build a retail centre on the outskirts of Ennis have made a number of changes to the original plans, which they say will make a “positive contribution” to the layout of the proposed scheme.

A FOUL smell from the Tradaree Wastewater Treatment plant is noticeable as far away as Bunratty, it was claimed at this week’s Shannon Town Council meeting.

CLARE County Council has paved the way for the development of a state-of-the-art convalescence home on the site of the former Two Mile Inn Hotel in Meelick.