Clare 2-11 Limerick 0-5: Clare qualified for a semi-final spot in the Munster MFC against Tipperary on May 13 after ousting Limerick at Cusack Park, Ennis last evening.

A review on the use of fluoride in the public water system will be completed by Christmas amid growing calls for the practice to be scrapped.

More families are bringing court challenges against the Department of Social Protection over its refusal to grant them Domiciliary Care Allowance, and in many cases are bypassing the department’s appeals system altogether.

RTÉ performed a major public service on Monday evening with the screening of Her Body, Our Babies.

The increasing popularity of body piercings has prompted James Reilly to warn about the health risks as his department creates guidelines for an unreg-ulated industry.

Almost 900 GAA players have left Clare and Limerick since 2008

It was a winter of loss for Ballyhale Shamrocks and Oulart-the-Ballagh in 2011.

Ballyhale Shamrocks 0-16 Dicksboro 0-12

Galway’s All-Ireland U21-winning midfielder Fiontain Ó Curraoin has been named in the side for the opening defence of their crown in tomorrow night’s Cadbury’s Connacht U21FC quarter-final against Mayo in McHale Park but remains a major doubt due to an ankle injury.

THE number of people killed on Irish roads in 2011 has risen to 182 following a number of fatal accidents over the holiday period.

A second man has died, and a third man is being treated for injuries, after a car crash in Co Kilkenny yesterday.

A second man has died after he was involved in a crash in Mullinavat in Co Kilkenny yesterday.

THE number of people contacting the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) helpline has more than doubled in the past year, with the service expecting to receive 25,000 calls in 2009.

GARDAÍ and publicans want the public to ring a hotline and report under-age drinkers.