Gardaí have arrested a 49-year old Co Mayo man concerning the alleged daytime rape of a 75-year-old woman in Ennis last Thursday.

A visit to Doonbeg by US president Donald Trump would present different security challenges to those raised by the visit of then president George W Bush to Dromoland Castle in 2004, according to the head of the Clare Garda Division.

An oceanographer has been engaged by gardaí as part of a lengthy investigation into the dumping of 17 animal carcasses, discovered below the spectacular Baltard Cliffs in Co Clare.