*Atlantic Aviation Group. SHANNON based Atlantic Aviation Group (AAG) has confirmed the addition of 50 new jobs following securing a maintenance contract with a ‘blue-chip’ international airline for a new maintenance line.
*Niall Gilligan. Photograph: Joe Buckley THE STATE is seeking priority in the fixing of a trial date for the assault trial of former All Star and Clare All-Ireland winning hurler Niall Gilligan, a court has heard.
*Element Six. PRE-TAX profits at industrial diamond manufacturer, Element Six last year decreased by 18 percent to $12.55m (€11.3m).
*The late Ger Gunning. AN ENNIS plumber has escaped a jail term for the careless driving causing the death of married father of two and GAA coach, Ger Gunning (46).
*Danny Harty. A JUDGE has imposed a four year-four month prison term on the get-away driver in the attempted murder of a Shannon man out celebrating his 21st birthday during a music festival in a small Clare town.
*The father was awarded sole custody. A MOTHER made her daughter write out “terribly elaborate and grossly inappropriate sexual allegations in a diary” against her father, a court has heard.
*Junior Minister, Anne Rabbitte (FF) TD. A JUNIOR Government Minister has stated that “a line was crossed” the night a Gort farmer threw a sealed bag of cow dung towards her at a public meeting.
*The matter came before Kilrush District Court. A JUDGE has told a 63-year old West Clare woman that “the game is up” for her selling counterfeit Louis Vuitton, Prada, Gucci, Alexander McQueen and Victoria Secrets designer goods for knock-down prices.
*Photograph: Páraic McMahon AN BORD Pleanála has granted the green light to the ESB to convert the 900MW Moneypoint coal-burning power station in West Clare to Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO).
*Kilrush Courthouse. AN EXPERT medical witness has told a court that a 27 year old West Clare man was undergoing a sleep disorder episode when he was drink-driving and his car veered off the road into a ditch last year.
