A major search was launched after the alarm was raised at around 5.15pm when Gardaí and the Irish Coast Guard received a report of a person in the River Fergus in the Cloughleigh area of Ennis.

Calls have been made for three dolphins which have taken up residence in a Co Clare river to be left alone so they can return to the Shannon Estuary.

MUNSTER juvenile fly anglers sealed their places in the Trout Anglers Federation of Ireland inter-provincial fly fishing competitions next month.

A massive search has been launched in Ennis for a 4-year-old child feared missing in a local river.

The body of a woman who went missing two weeks ago was tonight pulled from a river today.