Poor visibility reportedly prevented two helicopters respond to a serious road traffic collision in Co Clare yesterday where an elderly woman was left trapped in the wreckage of her car for over an hour.

Donald Trump's plans for a wall - this time to keep out the sea in Co. Clare - has been branded naive, monstrous and unsustainable.

A local authority’s warning to a 90-year-old bachelor to repaint his family vault has been described as “bureaucracy gone mad”.