The departure of Michael Harty, who was elected an Independent TD in 2016 after running a successful ‘No Doctor, No Village’ campaign, now makes Clare an interesting one to watch.

Boris Johnson’s election victory might have one positive impact. His 80-seat, five-year majority means the Tories are not dependent on the DUP and can insist, should they be so moved, that the bickering that has silenced Stormont for three years ends.

The hospital is consistently the most overcrowded in the country, however management say they do not have enough bed capacity to deal with their catchment of around 400,000.

The Vice President’s trip comes three months after Mr Trump visited Ireland for the first time as president.

US vice-president Mike Pence will be met at Shannon Airport by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney and Mayor of Clare Councillor Cathal Crowe

The worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737-Max aircraft will cost the region served by Shannon Airport €58m this year.

A round-up of the counts in Munster.

Taking away your child’s phone will not protect them from the dark underbelly of social media, but educating them from an early age will, writes

Clare County Council yesterday voted through a number of last-minute, contentious rezonings against the recommendations of its acting chief executive, Ger Dollard.

An 86-year-old man and his wife face the prospect of a new four-lane €120m roadway going through their four-bedroom home.

Over €400,000 may have to be written off by the Limerick and Clare Education Training Board (ETB) as a result of weaknesses in the control of capital projects by the former County of Limerick VEC.

Clare County Council is to make an audacious bid to have the University of Limerick (UL) renamed the University of County Clare and Limerick.

A disabled chef has been forced to live in appalling conditions in a mobile home for over four years due to a lack of funding for social housing maintenance and repairs.

A public works’ contractor landed a local authority with an €11m bill after completing a project for which the tender price was just over €6m.

A FORMER TD has called for “a period of civil disobedience” in response to the planned septic tank registration fee and household charge.

CALLS were made last night for no further money to be spent on Traveller accommodation in Co Clare until new legislation is introduced.

RESIDENTS of a village on the outskirts of Limerick were said to be flabbergasted yesterday on learning a local publican was at the centre of a West African gunpoint abduction in a scene straight out of a Frederick Forsythe novel.

CHANGES in the Garda management of outlying areas of Limerick city will pose a threat to a number of neighbourhoods located across the Clare boundary, it was claimed yesterday.

An elderly women has had to be evacuated from her home in Co Clare due to flooding being blamed on the ESB.

AT THE sprightly age of 36, Cork North-West TD Micheal Moynihan remains Fianna Fáil’s youngest member of Dáil Éireann.