*Ruairí Keenan. Photograph: Tom Micks. CLARE’s youngest candidate to have contested the local elections has said the campaign has affirmed his love for politics.
*John O’Connor addresses the crowd in Ennis. Photograph: John Mangan “TOGETHER WE can Save Ennis Town” was the rallying call issued at a demonstration in the heart of the county town on Saturday afternoon.
*Candidates in the Ennis Municipal District who attended The Electoral Chair election debate. POLLING DAY is less than a month away and as part of The Clare Echo’s build-up to the local elections, The Electoral Chair has kicked off election debates in all of the electoral areas.
*Seamus Ryan (LAB). CONTESTING a local election for the third time, Seamus Ryan (LAB) is hoping it is a case of third time lucky.
*Páraic McMahon, Brian Meaney, Kieran Burke and Michelle O’Connell during recording at The Temple Gate Hotel. THERE WAS SO much debate on the Ennis Municipal District episode of The Electoral Chair that we’ve had to split it into two parts.
*Leah Minoge and Amber Nolan. Favourites Diarmaid Nash and Colin Crehan were pipped in a tie breaker in the All-Ireland senior doubles handball final in Croke Park on Saturday evening.
The decision not to move the pension age to 67 as part of the Budget has been praised by the President of the Clare Council of Trade Unions.
A local health activist group has raised €6000 worth of personal protective equipment for nursing homes in the county.
North Clare’s branch of the Labour Party have urged newly elected leader, Alan Kelly to guarantee they do not enter into Government as a junior coalition partner alongside Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
As the fight for better medical services across the Mid-West intensifies, a number of community health campaigns have merged together.
