A judge has told a chronic alcoholic that he better join the Pioneers — otherwise he will be sent to jail next week.

A 22-year-old Shannon man yesterday pleaded guilty to charges in connection with uploading the Facebook profile pictures of 19 girls to a pornographic site.

A teen thief broke into a secure car park at a Garda station and stole items from four privately owned Garda cars along with a stab vest from the station.

A Kerry farm labourer charged in connection with alleged false imprisonment of a father, daughter, and her boyfriend at a Co Clare house is to appear in court again on Wednesday.

A US-bound passenger plane was forced to dump over 20 tonnes of fuel to make an emergency landing in Shannon, after a Miami barman got into a drunken rage after drinking a huge quantity of vodka on board, a court has heard.

A 28-year-old American man has been fined €1,000 after a plane was forced to divert to Shannon Airport.

Radio warnings were broadcast and motorists had to take evasive action to avoid colliding with a man driving his car the wrong way down motorway lanes linking Limerick to Ennis.

A victim of the Pol Pot dictatorship in Cambodia this week saw his “journey of a lifetime” — to see his family after 35 years — end in heartbreak as he instead woke up in a prison cell in Shannon.

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IT is more than 150km from Tubber, the North Clare parish that skirts the border with Galway, from the epicentre of Cork GAA that is Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Yet few people will be making that journey this weekend.

HISTORY will be created this weekend when The King's Inns, the institution responsible for training Ireland's barristers, compete in the Fitzgibbon weekend for the first time.

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