Gardaí in Ennis are investigating the discovery of a woman’s body in the town early today.

A major search was launched after the alarm was raised at around 5.15pm when Gardaí and the Irish Coast Guard received a report of a person in the River Fergus in the Cloughleigh area of Ennis.

Gardai have interviewed “a substantial number of witnesses” in its investigation into bogus letters for a planned €10m Supermac’s motorway forecourt outside Ennis.

A windfarm proposed for north Kerry, near the Shannon estuary, has been refused planning permission, on grounds of its potential adverse impact on the environment.

A teenage girl is recovering in hospital after she was rescued by two passers-by from a river in Co Clare.

If you fancy waking up in a tower then this Kells home is ideal, writes Trish Dromey.

A young woman is recovering in hospital after she was rescued from a Co Clare river by a member of An Garda Síochána.

The dismantled but famed West Clare Railway line is to breathe new life.

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Public anger over Irish Water has reached new heights after a man allegedly threatened workers with a rifle as they attempted to install a meter outside his home.

Clare County Council will deploy divers to investigate recent "eruptions" in a river that has left locals mystified.

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The body of a woman has been recovered in a river in Co Clare by search teams.

Met Éireann is expected to issue a red alert as gale force winds of up to 130km/h, high tides, rain, sleet, hail, and thunder hit the country this weekend.

Contracts for the construction of a €7.1m flood defence system for the town of Ennis were signed yesterday — more than three years after the devastating floods of Nov 2009.

Three exam students are being hailed as heroes after they rescued a woman from a river in Co Clare.

A young Irishman has been killed while crossing a road in Australia, just weeks after emigrating to the country.

A SENIOR garda said yesterday that the circumstances surrounding the grim discovery of the remains of missing man, Frank Hassett are “very unusual and baffling”.

A COUNCILLOR forced to use a dinghy to access his flooded home has lodged plans for five detached houses close to his Ennis residence.

THE heroes of 14 dramatic water rescues have been honoured at the Irish Water Safety national awards.

Gardaí have confirmed they are investigating the discovery of a body in Ennis, Co. Clare.

A post mortem is due be carried out today on a body recovered from the River Fergus in Ennis, Co Clare, yesterday.

A body has been located in the River Fergus in Ennis this afternoon.

A search is due to resume in Co Clare this morning for a man who is believed to have fallen into the River Fergus in Ennis.

Gardaí are treating death of a young boy in a Co Clare river as a tragic accident.

A massive search has been launched in Ennis for a 4-year-old child feared missing in a local river.

Garda Divers have recovered a body in the River Fergus in Ennis.

A large-scale search has been launched in Co Clare after a second young man was reported missing.

THE man who fell into the River Suir in Cahir on Saturday night had been married for less than a year, it emerged last night.

Searches are resuming this morning for three men who are believed to have fallen into rivers in Clare, Tipperary and Longford at the weekend.

Divers are set to resume their searches this morning for two men who fell into rivers in Co Clare and Co Tipperary at the weekend.

A search is underway in Co Clare for a man who is believed to have fallen into the River Fergus in Ennis.

A post mortem is due to be carried out today on the body of Galway man Aidan O'Donoghue.

The body recovered today from the River Fergus in Ennis, Co Clare, has now been officially identified as that of Aidan O'Donoghue.

A body has been taken from the River Fergus in Ennis, Co Clare.

THE people of Ennis are no strangers to the national limelight after it was named as Ireland’s Information Age Town five years ago.