THE Department of Education is paying an estimated €1,800 a week to transport two west Clare teenagers with special needs by taxi to Ennis because of the lack of a suitable educational facility unit in their locality.

A JURY yesterday delivered a unanimous not guilty verdict in a case where a west Clare man pleaded self-defence when biting off part of a friend’s ear.

RECENTLY I was happy to travel on the reconstructed 2.5km of the old West Clare railway line at Moyasta junction on the Slieve Galeon steam train.

Six men were rescued in the Shannon Estuary this afternoon after they were cut off by rising waters while collecting mussels.