A ‘road to nowhere’ built at a cost of €3.7m that has lain idle for the past seven years is to be finally completed.

Trish Dromey on a modernised and redecorated house on Derrynane Rd.

A new Game of Thrones-style Celtic adventure park could be built on lands adjacent to the Bunratty Folk Park — in an effort to help revitalise the “stale” tourism amenity.

Almost four decades after last hosting the event, Ennis, Co Clare, will finally get its chance to stage Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in 2016.

GWYNETH PALTROW has said she’s got no problem with CHRIS MARTIN’s relationship with JENNIFER LAWRENCE.

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The National Roads Authority (NRA) has confirmed that 126 manhole covers have been replaced on the M18 since last summer at a cost of €100,000.

Cattle stampedes could become a regular occurrence in the Burren, with valuable livestock plunging to their deaths over dangerous cliffs.

The operator of a soup kitchen network claimed he was warned not to set up in Ennis, Co Clare, as a woman there allegedly warned him that “she didn’t want any blacks, winos, or Travellers” in the town.

Post-mortems will be carried out today on the bodies of three brothers who drowned when their fishing vessel overturned at sea.

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Investigators are trying to establish why a boat carrying two men in their 40s capsized early yesterday morning, causing the death of one of the men after he spent a number of hours in the sea.

Two men have died in separate boating accidents off the Irish coast.

Gardaí have launched an investigation following the death of a fisherman off the Waterford coast.

A senior member of Ennis Town Council has hit out at “Prada-wearing Travellers”, saying that any Travellers convicted of being involved in feuds should have their social welfare entitlements withdrawn.

MUHAMMAD Ali’s Irish ancestral home of Ennis is not forgetting the boxing legend as he approaches his 70th birthday.

A LOCAL authority was forced to spend an extra €450,000 on Traveller accommodation over its budget allocation following damage on sites and high legal costs for the first six months of the year.

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

A NEW €900,000 purpose-built water treatment plant located in Clare is lying idle for over two years — after a rural group water scheme reverted back to its old system.

THE National Roads Authority has been criticised for taking almost three years to install emergency phones on a motorway in Co Clare while the authority still stands accused of failing to complete the route to the “highest safety standards.”

MEMBERS of Ennis Town Council have stopped short of erecting a 12-foot fence around new €450,000 playing facilities in response to continuing anti-social behaviour.

THE members of Ennis Town Council last night agreed to request the Office of Public Works (OPW) to investigate the possibility of purchasing a town centre site co-owned by developer Bernard McNamara for a knock-down price.

PLANNING permission has been given for a €40 million private hospital on the outskirts of Ennis after councillors overwhelmingly voted through a rezoning to accommodate the proposal.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has begun installing emergency telephones on the M18 Ennis bypass, over a year after the route was upgraded to motorway status, however it has been claimed that the route remains unfinished and unsafe.

Hip hop favourites Black Eyed Peas and rockers Kasabian are among music stars lining up for a clutch of global concerts to toast 250 years of Guinness this autumn, it was revealed today.

Blackburn have completed the signing of Northern Ireland Under-19 defender Jonathan Flynn.