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Claire Gallagher
Fears have been expressed that people from some of the most notorious housing estates in Limerick city are being relocated to Clare, without being asked to comply with the same level of conditions expected under a major regeneration programme. Limer...

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Hundreds get stoned in the Burren
MORE than 160 people got stoned in a village on the edge of the Burren at the weekend while uniformed gardaí looked on. ...
Muslim leader warns of Irish extremists
The Irish Government is legitimising and indirectly funding the work of extremist Muslim groups based in Dublin. That ...
Bridging the gap in Ennis town
ENNIS is to get a new bridge across the River Fergus as part of a major development by a Galway company which has just g...
Accused who spat at bar manager to give charity €500
SPITTING is very serious and can lead to infection, a district judge warned, after he heard that a bar manager had been ...
Clare shoppers support new retail development
MORE than eight in 10 Ennis residents believe that the town needs a stronger selection of stores to shop in and the same...
Other News This Week
Fair weather success for Clare
Clare 2-10  -  Donegal 0-15 at Cusack Park, Ennis (Ladies Football National League Final Division 2) When the buzzer sounded, relief spread all through Cusack Park. Clare h...
Feelgood Friday for Townies
Éire Óg 2-11  -  O’Curry’s 0-9 at St Flannan’s College, Ennis (Cusack Cup – Round 6) ÉIRE ÓG aren’t yet secure from relegation, but their fate is in their own hands after a...
Bunratty hold out against Moher
Bunratty 2  -  Moher Celtic 1 at the County Grounds, Ennis (cup semi final) A professional performance by cup specialists Bunratty who held out to secure their first final a...
The Rock’ go into the final
Rock Rovers 2 - Rineanna Rovers 1 at the County Grounds, Ennis (cup semi-final) A battle of the Rovers but more like Roy of the Rovers for Rock who grabbed an injury time...
Mixed fortunes for Munster
It’s been a week of mixed fortunes for Munster. The trip to Ravenhill was memorable for all the wrong reasons. Losing there was bad enough but to pick up two injuries in the proces...
Bar stool fall results in assault charge
A FALL off a stool in an Ennis pub resulted in a doctor breaking his hip and led to a man being convicted of assault - after a court heard conflicting evidence as to how the fall o...
New landfill for east Clare
CLARE County Council has granted planning permission for a waste facility in a rural east Clare location to half the capacity of the Inagh landfill. After a two-year campaign, Cla...
Doubts over by-pass
Commenting on reports that no funds have been allocated to begin work on the Galway to Ennis section of the N18, Deputy Joe Carey has expressed concern that the Gort-Crusheen by-pa...
Incoming: Aura Llanas
Fifteen-year-old Aura, from Barcelona, was determined to perfect her English so she left sunny Spain for Ireland’s greyer climes almost a year ago and has been living it up Irish...
The High Horse with Daire Ó Criodain
BERTIE Ahern will resign as Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil today after almost 11 years in the former office and 14 in the latter. Ahern’s legacy falls into two categories. Po...
Agenda
AN advert in the press in the past week served as a sharp reminder that the Shannon Airport Authority doesn’t have control over even the most minute items of operating the airport....
Media Watch with Michael Mulqueen
HOORAY for Boris Johnson, living proof that the diplomatically challenged can still succeed in British politics. RTÉ’s man in London, Brian O’Connell, said of Johnson’s victory in...

Featured Sections
The 19th with Joe O'Muircheartaigh
The 19th (06/05/08)
THIS comes with a health warning attached – not from the Government or even from the much-maligned Health Services Executive, but from the self-appoin...
Ball Hop with Marty Morrissey
A good drive not spoiled
Marty Morrissey
I said it publicly on Sunday night in Logue’s Pub and Restaurant in Ballyvaughan so I may as well put it on the record here as well. My favourite driv...
Inns & Tonics with Cormac MacConnell
The Long Dock, Carrigaholt
Cormac MacConnell
HOURS before the opening of the big Maytime festival of oysters and lobsters and music and song, I arrive in Carrigaholt. She is putting on her powder...
Fuzzy Logic
Where’s me jumpa?
Zeitghost
IT’S been one year, almost to the day, since my jumper went missing. I’ve hunted high and low for the precious garment but there’s no sign. I’ve launc...

Latest National News
15:20 - 9.05.2008
The GAA and ESB have announced details of a new initiative aimed at making Croke Park a carbon-neutral stadium.}
15:18 - 9.05.2008
Gardaí are investigating a raid on an amusement centre in Youghal in Co Cork.}
15:11 - 9.05.2008
The interim Ireland coaching staff has today announced the Ireland squad for the upcoming warm up game against the Barbarians and the tour to New Zealand and Australia.}
15:00 - 9.05.2008
The Ir£10,000 corruption trial of George Redmond has continued on day-eight of the hearing in legal argument in the absence of the jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.}
15:51 - 9.05.2008
Westmeath manager Tomas O Flaharta has stuck with the same 15 that started in the NFL Division Two final for his side's championship opener against Longford on Sunday.}
15:47 - 9.05.2008
Oil prices hit a new record of nearly US$126 today as a weakening US dollar and supply concerns boosted prices.}
15:37 - 9.05.2008
Progress between in dealing with outstanding issues since pharmacists continue dispensing medicines on the community drugs schemes from May 1 has been slow, according to the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU).}
15:31 - 9.05.2008
Music mogul Simon Fuller is to wed long-term girlfriend Natalie Swanston at the end of the month, it was reported today.}
15:27 - 9.05.2008
Anthony Foley will captain Munster in his farewell match against Glasgow in the final Magners League game of the season at Musgrave Park on Saturday.}