WORKERS made redundant with the collapse of the Whelan Group yesterday expressed their anger at the National Assets Management Agency’s role in the liquidation of the quarrying group.

A VICTIM of last year’s winter flooding, Susan Walsh, yesterday welcomed an announcement that the Office of Public Works (OPW) is to spend €135,000 aimed at preventing further flooding in Ennis, Co Clare.

All-Ireland winner Ger ‘Sparrow’ O’Loughlin is set to be named Clare senior hurling boss following the resignation of Mike McNamara and his management team last night.

Mike McNamara's reign as Clare Senior Hurling manager has ended following an emergency meeting of the Clare GAA Board at the West County Hotel in Ennis tonight.

THE Irish Red Cross has raised over €300,000 for its flood relief operations.

The Clare hurling crisis intensified over the weekend after the majority of players expressed a vote of no confidence in manager Mike McNamara and his backroom team.

THE Clare hurling crisis intensified over the weekend after the majority of players expressed a vote of no confidence in manager Mike McNamara and his backroom team.

THE anticipated stormy meeting of the Clare County Board at the West County Hotel in Ennis last night never materialised, the reported rebellion by the players very much a non-issue, taking up less than 10 minutes of a meeting that went on for well over an hour.

WITH debts of almost €23m the Co Clare-based Lynch Hotel Group, which employs 450 staff, has gone into voluntary examinership and has been placed under the protection of the High Court.

Tony Considine has been confirmed as Clare's new senior hurling manager.

A dozen members from young Fine Gael made the long walk from Galway to Ennis today to raise funds for suicide awareness.

A former car salesman told the corruption trial of former Dublin Assistant City and County Manager, Mr George Redmond, that he recalled paying a £10,000 to Dublin County Council for a right-of-way, despite his earlier denials of doing so.