Fine Gael and Labour have held tentative talks on a voting pact for the Seanad elections.

Six Clare towns with the incorrect spelling of their names on official signage for the past five years, will have to hold a public vote before the mistakes can be corrected by Clare County Council.

Traditionally, Clare has been Fianna Fáil country, with the party consistently taking at least two of the seats on offer since it became a four-seater in 1981.

A 42-year-old mother has died unexpectedly, only five months after giving birth to triplets.

Fine Gael looks set to fall four seats short of securing control of the 28-seat Clare Co Council.

A senior garda said his “hands are tied” in relation to dealing with children younger than 12 “running riot” in a private housing estate in Ennis.

A local authority is considering installing CCTV cameras to overlook holy ground due to a number of violent clashes in a graveyard.

ENNIS’s unlikely twinning with a sprawling US desert city with a population of more than four million has resulted in two of the town’s top representatives addressing a global forum in China.

TWO branches of a Kerry family that had lost touch for half a century have been emotionally reunited through an internet-based ancestry tracing service.