A Co Clare community felt "revulsion" at the ordeal of an elderly man who cycled 30 miles in the middle of the night to escape intruders at his home.

A 68-year-old man abandoned his home and cycled 30 miles through the night to check himself into a nursing home after being terrorised twice by robbers at his remote home in west Clare.

At 10pm on Feb 21, 2012, bachelor Michael McMahon heard banging outside his home in rural Co Clare and could see three torches in the darkness outside.

They have sampled the senior management game in recent years but these days Ephie Fitzgerald and Mickey Ned O’Sullivan are focusing on the underage ranks.

THE husband of cancer victim Ann Moriarty said yesterday that his wife would be happy that the sacrifice she made has resulted in an improved health service and increased awareness around breast cancer.

Broadcaster George Hook has been granted judgment against Tribune Newspapers in his €38,000 damages claim for defamation of character in a Sunday Tribune article published in October last year.

ALTHOUGH it is early days in the First Division of the Munster Junior League, many of the early favourites are up at the right end of the table.

WITH all health cutbacks and closing of units the HSE can suddenly find €85 million and order one million masks for a viral flu epidemic which has not affected the Irish people except for a few patients treated at home by their families and general practitioners.

THE review team investigating cancer services at the Mid-West Regional Hospital in Ennis is expected to complete its work within three months.

WEXFORD-bred horses won the ridden hunter championship and the reserve honours for a Co Down exhibitor at last Sunday’s Cork Summer Show.

USA's J Baldwin leads the Irish Seniors Amateur Open Championship after three rounds.

American J Baldwin has taken over the lead at the Irish Seniors Amateur Open Championship from Louth’s B Reddan.

Co Louth's B Reddan leads the Irish Seniors Amateur Open Championship after the first round at Limerick Golf Club.

A Fianna Fáil councillor today said he was being targeted for speaking out about crime after his home was hit by two shotgun blasts.

Gardaí in Co Clare have appealed for help in locating a 59-year-old woman who has been missing since Monday.

The 23-year-old man being questioned about the murder of a young woman in Clare was in a relationship with her, it emerged today.

CHAMPIONS Kerry include five of last year’s starting 15 for tonight’s opening game in the Munster MFC against Clare in Cusack Park in defence of Munster minor crown.

PEADAR MCMAHON is a man of steel. Flesh and blood predominantly, but the Kilrush man has a will and a shoulder of iron.