The statue is finally to be - just in time for the impeachment proceedings. The people of Ballybunion are "bracing themselves" for the arrival on Christmas Eve of a seven foot bronze sculpture of the beleaguered President Clinton, who schmoozed them in a "blaze of glory" last September.
The sculpture is to be erected outside the Garda station in the centre of the town, said The Kerryman. And a good place for it, US Republicans might say.
The bizarre sightings in the night skies over Kerry had one local vet declaring: "I'm going to study to be a ufologist. You get nothing from cattle these days."
The picturesque village of Rathmore is not normally associated with extraterrestrial activity, but the locals were out in force last Monday evening to see if a prediction by UFO expert Mr Eamon Ansbro would come true, said The Kerryman. Using a "special astronomical formula", he forecast UFOs would be visible in the sky at 7 p.m. and 9.30 p.m.
The consensus among most customers of Cahill's bar was that the truth was more likely to be found in a pint than "out there". But Mr Dan Power, local vet, is still "frightened" by the "yoke" he saw in the sky.
What first appeared to be a "ball of fire, revealed itself as a craft which looked like a De Lorean motor car with two big exhausts coming out of it", he says.
Watching the skies for different reasons were mourners left waiting at Knock airport when the plane bringing the coffin of the deceased landed, then took off again for London with the coffin still on board, said The Sligo Champion.
"It should have been known that there was a coffin on board but for some reason the ground handlers could not find it when the plane landed in Knock. It's a small aircraft so we cannot understand how it wasn't located. Obviously a mistake was made," said a spokeswoman for Ryanair.
Distancing Ryanair from the mix-up, she said that at the request of the Mayo Association, Ryanair carried human remains free of charge provided the airline was not involved in the administration, handling and forward transportation.
Gardai in North Mayo are investigating a number of reports that women living alone have been drugged by a man visiting their homes in the Bonniconlon area, said The Connaught Telegraph.
The man gave them a potion to drink that rendered them unconscious. A wave of rumours has been sweeping the area since the arrest recently of a man on rape charges.
A worrying series of attempted abductions made headlines around the State. Gardai have issued a warning to Laois schools after attempts to lure children into cars in Mountmellick, Portlaoise and Monasterevin, said the Leinster Express.
The Anglo-Celt described how two Cavan girls had to scream and struggle to escape when they were snatched on the steps of their primary school by a "weird-looking" man.
Mr Noel C. Duggan's Green Glens Arena in Millstreet is to receive a two-thirds rate rebate worth nearly £100,000 over 10 years, said The Corkman. But the decision caused controversy at a meeting of Cork County Council. Cllr Larry Kelly said: "This is a company that made £1.96 million in their accounts in 1997. What about the small shopkeeper, where does he turn when it comes to a rate rebate?"
There was perturbation among Longford County Council over the story line in the RTE TV soap Fair City, where - in the words of Cllr Gerry Brady - "one man was dying of AIDS and two men were fighting over him", said the Longford News.
He added that RTE had "actually shown two men kissing on television" and asked "what are we as a nation coming to?"
Mr Niall Mathews, executive producer of Fair City, told the Longford News the production team were very conscious that the programme is televised at 7 p.m., well in advance of the watershed of 9 p.m.