A BOOK of Evidence has been served on Clare County Council in relation to charges allowing water untreated for cryptosporidium into the Ennis public water system in 2008 and 2009.

A MARRIED father-of- two said “I’m very sorry for what happened” when charged with the murder of Deirdre McCarthy, a court heard yesterday.

A JUDGE has ordered a Slovak national repay a debt of €409 to a person he claimed had been a moneylender.

A CO GALWAY father has been charged with 185 counts of raping three of his daughters over a 17-year period.

A court has heard how a Galway man, who has already been charged with cruelty, rape and neglect of his children, now faces an additional 185 charges.

A Co Galway couple charged with cruelty, rape and neglect of their children have been further remanded in custody.

A COURT charge was struck out yesterday against a local authority that permitted drinking water to bypass a temporary treatment plant for the bug, cryptosporidium.

The grandson of Co Gaway pensioner Finbar Fahy has been charged with his murder.

CLARE County Council faces a potential €500,000 fine for allowing water untreated for the cryptosporidium bug into the Ennis public water system last year.

A teenager charged with murdering a 14-year-old boy outside a fast food restaurant in County Clare has been sent forward for trial in Dublin.

A 40-year-old Galway man has appeared before Ennis District Court charged in connection with the siege in Gort almost three weeks ago.

A 26-year-old Cork man who tried to ram two garda squad cars near Ennis in Co Clare this morning has been remanded in custody.

By CALLING for an internal investigation by the Garda Commissioner into the garda handling of a case before him, District Court Judge John Neilan may have done a public service, but in a direction which he may not have intended, or anticipated.

LEGISLATION which allowed a district court judge impose prison terms on three travellers was yesterday described as “draconian, repressive and anti-traveller.”

Six people facing charges in connection with anti-war protests at Shannon airport were remanded on continuing bail in court at nearby Ennis, Co Clare today.

PROBATION officers are threatening to boycott a new community scheme supervising released sex offenders over a staffing crisis.

A man was given a suspended jail sentence today after pleading guilty to an air-rage offence on a flight between the United States and Ireland.