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 clip shows a number of youngsters jumping from a cliff in the popular resort town of Kilkee while others sit, with their feet dangling over the edge, laughing, cheering and recording the potentially fatal acts.

VISITORS to historic buildings in Co Clare can now use a mobile phoneapplication to browse information on the location which had previously only been available in booklet form.

THE numbers of Health Service Executive workers who retired in the mid-west last year increased by 53% to 292.