Over the last 23 years, around eight or nine bodies have never been recovered from the seas around the Cliffs of Moher, a garda told an inquest.

Garda Andrew Monahan was speaking at the inquest into the death of German national, Max Tienert (31) who is believed to have entered the waters at the Cliffs of Moher more than four years ago.

A judge has told a north Clare farmer that if he hasn’t removed by tomorrow 14 ewes and their lambs from a one and a half acre field owned by his brother, he will be sending him to jail.