A 65-year old farmer today pleaded guilty to a charge in connection with the dumping of 12 decomposing animal carcasses from a 300 ft high cliff four years ago in west Clare.

A 64-year-old bachelor farmer yesterday told of his terror at being assaulted and tied up by two men at his isolated home.

A land row between two neighbours will not stop the opening of a new €400,000 walkway along one of the most spectacular stretches of coastline in the country.

A judge has told members of a family that “it is a desperate tragedy” that a land dispute between a mother and her eldest son ended up in court.

A man who was the subject of a garda manhunt this week after escaping from custody calmly walked into court yesterday to be sentenced for burglary at the home of a prominent solicitor.