A judge has said that a West Clare farmer who told another farmer in a “foul-mouthed rant” that he would fuck him under a tractor after a run-in on a country road “seems to be at this all the time”.

A woman left permanently disabled after slipping on grapes while shopping in a Tesco store has been awarded €1.4m damages by a High Court judge.

Exactly 101 years after the sinking of the Lusitania, the grave-marker of “an unknown victim” is to be replaced with her real name — that of a young bride who was on the ship due to a cruel twist of fate.

On the doorstep of the Wild Atlantic Way, Trish Dromey is impressed by a high-spec holiday home.

Galway was the big winner at the Georgina Campbell Awards, taking the top prizes for best restaurant and best seafood restaurant.

The post office at Carrigaholt in Co Clare has reopened — but only because a local farmer was able to take the postmaster through flood waters from his home, one of six left cut off by the sea.

A FEMALE bottle-nosed dolphin became stranded in Co Kerry last year and was returned to the sea.

Thirty-one Garda stations are to close, while a further 10 will operate on reduced opening hours, under cost-saving plans announced by Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

A SEARCH and rescue operation was mounted on Sunday night for a teenager who became trapped on a cliff after trying to walk home along the shore.

Silver Strand, Sherkin Island, Co Cork

THE doors of the Loop Head lighthouse overlooking the Atlantic in west Clare were opened to the public yesterday for the first time — 341 years after the first lighthouse was built.

THE Department of Education is paying an estimated €1,800 a week to transport two west Clare teenagers with special needs by taxi to Ennis because of the lack of a suitable educational facility unit in their locality.

A body has been discovered on the Co Clare coastline.

A PENSIONER and a predator have between them established what could be an Irish record.

A search and rescue operation off the coast of Co Clare has been called off after it was declared to be a well-intended false alarm.

Donal Hickey on the resurgence of interest in currachs

Rose Cottage has been recently refurbished and extended and is located on half an acre of land.

Minister for the Marine John Browne today announced the allocation of €7.9m in funding for coastal protection and small harbours works throughout the country.

GEORGIE FITZPATRICK was always a popular man in Kilkee. His easygoing manner and a phenomenal football service record for club and county is the type of stuff that gains you kudos in this part of West Clare.

THROUGHOUT the month of July seven ships and three aircraft will be deployed off the western coast of Europe mapping the distribution and the abundance of whales, dolphins and porpoises.

The two teenagers who were killed in a road traffic accident in Clare last night have been named.

Two teenage friends were killed and three others seriously injured in a car crash in Co Clare last night.