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The Clare People

newspaper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7723265 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Clare People was an Irish weekly regional newspaper founded in June 2005. It was published every Tuesday and sold mainly in County Clare. It published Clare related news, sport and events. It announced that it had published its final print edition on 13 August 2019.

The newspaper's headquarters were located in Ennis, County Clare.

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The public source identifies “The Clare People” as newspaper. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Clare, People and newspaper.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Clare, People and newspaper providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7723265. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Clare People” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.