The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.

The second tier of local governance is represented by the town councils — Clare has four in the form of Ennis, Kilrush, Kilkee and Shannon.

Ennis has also written several miniseries for Vertigo, including Goddess ( 1995 – 1996 ), Pride & Joy ( 1997 ), Unknown Soldier ( 1997 ), and Adventures in the Rifle Brigade ( 2001 – 2002 ), as well as eight one-shot War Stories between 2001 and 2003.

Ennis has an annual Bluebonnet festival during the month of April.

Among the buildings she has been active in restoring is the Ennis House in the Hollywood Hills designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Other comics Ennis has written include War Story ( with various artists ) for DC ; The Pro for Image Comics ; The Authority for Wildstorm ; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood ( a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist ), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.

So adding some fantasy superhero narrative, that has always annoyed me a little bit .” Although he has written a number of superhero stories, Ennis has tried to " subvert " the genre as well as he could.

In the 1995 one-shot special Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe, Ennis has the Punisher kill every single superhero and supervillain on Earth.

Ennis has also worked with John Woo on a 5-issue comic book mini-series called Seven Brothers for Virgin Comics.

Ennis is a resolute atheist who has a marked distaste for Christianity.

The character has been described as being obsessed with vengeance ; Garth Ennis noted that the character of the Punisher " sees the world in very black and white terms, he solves his problems with utter finality " and that " his response to any problem: when in doubt, hit back hard.

An explosion of talent and publishing has been one of the consequences of free secondary school education introduced in the 1960s, allowing many southern poets ( e. g. Thomas McCarthy, John Ennis, Dennis O ’ Driscoll, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill ) to come to wider notice.

Politically, Ennis has always been considered a Fianna Fáil stronghold.

Ennis has been a center for Irish Traditional Music, and since 1974 has hosted the Fleadh Nua in late May each year, the second largest traditional music festival in Ireland.

Ennis has numerous Football Clubs ( Soccer, GAA & Rugby ) that play in various Leagues from Schoolboys to Senior.

Ennis has many Sports facitities including the Lees Road Sports and Amenity Park ( See Main Article ), The Fair Green which has a Children's Playground and numerous football pitches.

The Ennis Leisure Centre has a fully equipped Gym with a 25m pool, Saunas etc.

Ennis has been married to Margaret Angela Knight since 1980 and they have three sons, one of which is called Micheal Ennis.

The Institute has four campuses in Limerick City, one in both Thurles and Clonmel in County Tipperary and a regional learning centre in Ennis, County Clare.

The original plot and premise of Preacher was spun out of Ennis ' run on Hellblazer, which postulated what would happen if an angel and a demon mated, and the spirit of their offspring ended up in a mortal man.

Having spearheaded the " British invasion ," by head-hunting such writers as Moore, Gaiman, Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan, Berger was well suited to head up the new line, as she was already editing many of the series which would form the core of the early Vertigo output.

Axel Alonso ( who would later move to Marvel Comics ) began his editorial career at Vertigo on Animal Man, Black Orchid, Doom Patrol and Hellblazer, and also edited the opening issues of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's 100 Bullets and the final issues of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher.

From 1993 to 1995 Ennis and John McCrea worked on another DC title, The Demon, during which they introduced super-powered contract killer Tommy Monaghan, also known as Hitman, whose own series would allow their creative partnership to continue when The Demon ended.

In 2006, it was announced that Ennis would write a new creator-owned extended series titled The Boys, originally published by Wildstorm.

On 9 February 2010, Ennis announced that he would stand down at the 2010 general election.

Executive producer Alex Frame and producer Bob Ennis decided to try a show that would be comparable to The Tonight Show instead, changing the name of the show to Canada After Dark and replacing host Peter Gzowski with veteran comedic actor Soles.

But that would change however, as other writers and artists progressed the story, somewhat disrupting the story line and the vision Ennis had for Shadowman, which was that of a zombie hitman.

The supporting cast would gain their own spin-off strip Strontium Dogs in the 1990s, written by Garth Ennis and Peter Hogan.

Ennis would bring back the Gronk in Return of the Gronk, turning him into an aggressive berserker: learning that Johnny Alpha was dead caused a heart attack which awakened his aggressive side of this one.

Ennis often used the phrase " Hello, friend ", a term Cosby would later adopt.

His pale Englishmen would meet in a pitched battle against Murtough's Irish in the Battle of Dysert O ' Dea near what is now Ennis, County Clare.

Ennis believes that in order to draw the " never-ending story " of homeopathic inhibition of basophils to a close then a new multi-centre trial would be required.

Ennis had the project in mind for a number of years, and The Boys would permit Darick extensive creative control with the opportunity to produce an original work where he could design the characters, create the covers, and continue inking his own material.

Concurrently, the Phillies were being transfused with young blood, bringing to the majors many of the players who would become the Whiz Kids: Robin Roberts, Richie Ashburn, Del Ennis, Granny Hamner, Willie Jones, Curt Simmons, Bubba Church and others.

The series, which was written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Aaron Campbell, debuted on April 19, 2012 in comics shops and was also available for sale through various website sales outlets like eBay and Amazon. com ; the Ennis story arc, set during the Shadow's original 1930s time period, was featured in the first six issues.

In the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar entranced audiences " like no other romance in recent years ".

As Liam grew in his skill as a musician, and as he began to meet legendary piper figures like Willie Clancy and Seamus Ennis, he became acutely aware of his position in the tradition of piping.

In addition to his instruction of East Coast artists like Charles Demuth, Silas Dustin, Marsden Hartley, M. Jean McLane, Georgia O ' Keeffe, John Marin, George Pearse Ennis, Leopold Seyffert and Edward Charles Volkert, he had an important role in influencing California art at the turn of the century, especially in interactions with Arthur Frank Mathews, Xavier Martinez and Percy Gray.

see Ennis Independent School District

Kilrush was once one of the twin termini of the West Clare Railway from Ennis, the neighbouring town of Kilkee being the other ( see Irish railway history ).

* John Ennis v. Smith, see List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 55

The near shore North Star production site in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea under open water conditions ( summer ) is an example of a production facility that relies on a subsea pipeline to carry the resource to land – see Lanan & Ennis 2001, Lanan et al.

Currently only two sections of the line, from Limerick via Ennis to Galway ( as of 17 August 2012 ) and Collooney to Sligo, see regular services, with other sections either closed, or only technically open.