A 10-year old Co Clare girl phoned her mother to say “Daddy is on the floor and we can’t wake him up” after finding her father in an unresponsive state in a sitting room.

Insp Paul Slattery sympathised with the Dinan family and told Patrick Dinan: “It was pure torture that I saw in your face during the search.”

A member of the Doolin unit of the Irish Coast Guard has helped talk down “11 or 12 people” contemplating taking their own lives at the the Cliffs of Moher.

Coroner stops short of suicide verdict ruling that girl died by asphyxia.

A grieving father told an inquest yesterday that he has a real problem with the control of alcohol after hearing that his 20-year-old son fell to his death after an all-day drinking session.

“This is Ireland.” These were the words a shocked Ann Davaris from New Jersey heard a stranger saying after she called her missing son Steve on his mobile number 11 years ago.

Mystery still surrounds the disappearance 11 years ago of a US backpacker who was only yesterday officially pronounced dead at an inquest in Ennis, Co Clare.

A Clare man shouted “goodbye brother, I love you” after watching him disappear into the water in Poulnasherry Bay off the Clare coast in April.

A fireman yesterday described how he saw a five-year-old girl screaming “help, help, help my mom” as she stood in the street and beside her dying 27-year-old mother who had just sustained multiple stab wounds.

A coroner has made a fresh appeal to farmers on farm safety after hearing how the father of an All-Ireland U-21 hurling winner died in a farm accident last year.

A six-year-old boy was in the front seat of his grandmother’s car when it reversed with the hand-brake off and knocked over and killed his granny.

A pedestrian who died after a hit and run was more than four times over the legal limit for alcohol.

A teenager made a desperate attempt to save his school friend from drowning, an inquest has been told.

A coroner is to write to the National Roads Authority after an inquest heard a woman lost her life after driving through “a lake of water” on a motorway.

Gardaí found a man watching a match on TV in an apartment that contained the rotting corpse of a missing person, an inquest heard.

A 47-year-old Co Clare woman lost her life last Christmas Eve after a night drinking on the couch in front of the TV with her boyfriend.

The grieving mother of a Junior Certificate student who took his own life last June yesterday asked parents to be extra vigilant over the mental health of their teenage children.

The HSE has adopted a series of recommendations arising from its own investigation into how a patient took his own life while in a high-observation area at an acute psychiatric unit.

A widow yesterday saw the final chapter close on a tragic night over 27 years ago when she witnessed her then 17-year-old only daughter die from an asthma attack after being rushed to a Limerick hospital.

Almost 10 times as many people took their own lives in Clare last year as died on the county’s roads.

A 14-MONTH-OLD baby boy was found dead in his car seat after spending three hours in a parked car on a warm day in July last year, an inquest heard yesterday.

A CLARE town is stepping up demands for the HSE to establish a methadone clinic.

A “BONE detective” is being drafted in to help gardaí identify the remains of a man that were recovered off the Cliffs of Moher over one year ago.

AN inquest has heard how a Co Clare man was helpless to rescue his father and brother from their burning home.

ALCOHOL was listed on death certificates in almost 1,900 fatalities over a three-year period, statistics reveal.

A FEMALE security guard at Shannon Airport died from a brain haemorrhage just weeks after she was sent home from the Mid-Western Regional Hospital where she was wrongly diagnosed as suffering from migraine, an inquest in Limerick heard.

A CORONER’S inquest was told yesterday that a 73-year-old retired farmer was already dead on the road before being run-over by a car outside the north Clare town of Ennistymon last year.