Gardaí are investigating a burglary at a business premises in Co Clare that has been targeted three times in the past 10 years.

Gardaí are investigating the discovery of a man’s body in a public toilet in Co. Clare this morning.

Gardaí are investigating after two men and a woman were assaulted in Ennis, Co Clare yesterday evening.

A judge has jailed a guilt-ridden sex offender for three-and-a-half years for the sexual abuse of a young girl over a four-year period.

A 23-year old Ennis man armed with a hurley embarked on a cocaine fuelled attack on another man that was sparked by an insult on Facebook, a court has heard.

Emergency services are dealing with a suspected chemical incident at a leisure centre in Co. Clare this morning.

A social worker has told a court that she came across two parents passed out on the couch in the sitting room with two children aged three and six unattended nearby in the home.

An Ennis woman has appeared in court charged with stealing €170,830 from 11 people over a five year period when she was acting as a solicitor for the parties.

Plans are to be lodged for a €400m one million sq ft data centre on the outskirts of Ennis early next year.

A high profile GAA figure in county Clare has appeared as a character witness for a sex offender at a sentencing hearing.

Romanian prostitutes at two Ennis brothels were selling their bodies in order to raise the exorbitant rent being charged to them for the properties by a brothel keeper, a court has heard.

In sentencing the man, Judge Patrick Durcan said that “any citizen walking along a street is absolutely entitled to expect that they can so freely and safely and without any danger of being molested by someone and that is what happened in this case, the lady was molested by this man”.

In a clear reference to the burial of cervical cancer victim and mother of five, Emma Mhic Mhathúna taking place on Wednesday, Judge Patrick Durcan said: “On today of all days.”

A district court judge today continued his hard line against motorists parking in disabled parking spaces when he banned a mother of five from driving for three months.

A 31-year old man has appeared in court charged with operating two brothels in Ennis, Co Clare.

A judge has said that all he wants to do at the end of a day at the family law court is to have a shower after listening to vitriol and bitterness from people before the court.

Gardaí and emergency services are at the scene of a serious collision between a cyclist and a car in Ennis, Co Clare.

An Ennis-based taxi driver who was set upon by four members of the same family and stabbed six times by a then 17-year-old male in a dispute over a fare said that he will not be intimidated by any of them.

They grew up only six miles from one another, the self-described sons of two cranky East Clare farmers, but for nearly 20 years after leaving school in Scarriff Donal Moloney and Gerry O’Connor barely crossed paths.

An "obsessive and possessive" university student has pleaded guilty to twice assaulting a "high-achieving" Ennis woman and ‘keying’ her new car, causing €1,100 worth of damage.

Jim Warny is back on Irish soil after taking part in the cave rescue in Thailand.

An Irish-based cave diver was part of the international team who helped rescue the 12 boys and their coach in Thailand yesterday.

We all complain that our cars are absolute bangers but this one takes the top prize, which led to Gardaí in Ennis taking it off the road.

A 42-year-old Romanian man, labelled the ‘Beast from the East’ by a judge, is seeking to have his 15-month jail term reduced.

Gardaí are anxious to speak to a driver who may have witnessed a fatal crash in Ennis.

The 15-year-old Ennis Junior Cert student who lost his life while trying to save the life of his friend in a double drowning tragedy was yesterday described as “a most extraordinary and inspirational young man”.

The grieving father of 15-year-old Ennis schoolboy, Jack Kenneally told mourners that his heart fills will sorrow knowing that his friend, Shay Moloney lost his life trying to save his son’s life.

The funeral is taking place this morning, of Jack Kenneally who died in a double drowning in County Clare.

Minister Michael Ring has extended his sympathy to the family and friends of the teenage boys who died in a drowning in County Clare.

Two teenagers who got into difficulty while swimming in a quarry near Ennis this afternoon have died.

At least two members of the herd of feral goats which has been rampaging through Ennis, Co Clare, in recent weeks have been identified as Old Irish goats — an ancient breed protected under the Convention of Biological Diversity.

A husband and wife team who charged clients €200 an hour for sex with them at their Ennis home have escaped jail.

In a world ever more dependent on industrialised framing — and the horrors that intensification can inflict on animals — we seem to have developed a reluctance to confront our obligation to manage wildlife populations to protect the quality of life and security wild animals can enjoy.

Update 8pm By Marita Moloney: The mother of a baby whose life was saved by quick-thinking gardaí has reached out to extend her gratitude.

An 18-year-old man has been killed in a car crash in Ennis.

A Toronto-listed mineral exploration company has confirmed plans for a major drilling programme in Co Clare.

A HSE investigation into how 43 children at a dental clinic were treated with drain cleaner has found that internal security within the dental clinic was poor.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has concluded its review of an incident where water containers used in one of its dental clinics were contaminated with diluted drain cleaner.

One of the events that fell victim to the recent arctic weather was the auction of a very rare and interesting piece of farm land in Ennis, Co Clare.

An Ennis woman was the victim of a daylight sex assault when a 36-year old man came up from behind her on a crowded street during last year’s Fleadh and put his hand up her dress and tugged at her underwear.

The head of the country’s Civil Defence College has told a court that the alleged manoeuvre carried out by HSE paramedic Andrew Long on two women at a first aid course "could have been life-threatening".

A teenage boy is recovering in hospital after he was attacked by three masked men in a garage forecourt in Co Clare this evening.

One man was seriously injured while a woman was arrested following a road traffic collision in Co Clare last night, writes Patrick Flynn.

Birds or animals were lucky that they didn’t come across two bags of cocaine left by a drug dealer on a school wall, according to a judge.