Colm Collins has now been a senior intercounty football manager for longer than any other manager — apart from two others.

The living could be easy at Carrig near Cratloe in South East Clare where the design is long and low and contemporary and the energy bills are likely to be inexpensive.

A new company, Opera Workshop is establishing itself as a focal point for local singers and musicians interested in experimenting with the genre.

Many’s the time most of us of a certain generation have been heard to utter the old country saying, “Well, that beats Banagher!” when shocked and awed by an unexpected development of one kind or another.

Four limestone statues which were stolen from Charleville in Co Cork in 2011 have been recovered by gardaí.

On the evening of the Clare-Wexford game two weeks ago, I left Cork and headed straight to Whitegate, the last outpost in east Clare, right on the Galway border.

Looking back at 2017, Michael H Daniels says our nearest neighbour’s trauma is cooling the market here, and is making the future a lot harder to predict    

Trish Dromey views an unusual hillside home which was designed to optimise light and space.

So what will you be discussing with your circle of intimates tonight in your local, assuming you have a Saturday-night local and a discussion group? Screenshots and the latest rumours coming out of Tipp, perhaps?

A Limerick criminal who knocked down a garda and rammed a bus and two garda patrol cars, whilst driving a high-powered stolen BMW, told gardaí after his arrest: "I'm addicted to fast cars".

A judge has criticised the “blank mule-ish refusal” by garda chiefs to listen to his pleas to overhaul the prosecution of suspected speeding motorists.

At this stage of his career, John Galvin could be forgiven for taking it easy. Instead, the 36-year-old legendary Limerick midfielder, who played inter-county football for 15 years, is preparing for his second Clare county final. 

Despite one of the worst summers on record, the sun could be the new cash-cow for farmers in rural parts of the country.

You wouldn’t normally associate Clare’s Cratloe Woods with the sun-soaked Costa del Sol but as David Moriarty watched the Tipperary footballers go through their paces, he was filled with a renewed sense of hope.

Conflicting arguments on the retention of the traditional Championship format emerged from Killarney and Thurles on Sunday. 

Last Saturday evening when Gary Brennan stood on the steps of the Hogan Stand, it served as a reminder of another fact of the county he represents so well.

Plans have been unveiled for €60m investment in solar farms in Clare and Kerry over the coming years.

‘Facebook escape artist’ Jason Freyne will be behind bars until 2016 after a judge yesterday imposed a four month jail term on him for his role in a 160kmph Garda motorway chase.

A cyclist is to contest a charge of careless driving on a bicycle on New Year’s eve 2013.

Clare and Limerick? The only differences between us are those little idiosyncrasies, those unique emblems, which distinguish us all as our own separate little tribe in the wider hurling family.

Members of the Clare football management team were remaining tight-lipped last night over the 12-week ban handed down to Colm Collins.

A district court judge said yesterday that a case of a man charged with careless driving a bicycle is the first such case he has come across in the courts.

A judge has told a man who put motorists’ lives in danger by driving up the motorway the wrong way three times, “don’t come out of Cork”.

Limerick football manager John Brudair is hopeful that John Galvin will commit for another season of inter-county football.

A garda told a court there were “a number of close calls” for motorists who avoided colliding with a Cork man driving his Mercedes the wrong way down motorway lanes linking Limerick to Ennis.

Conor Ryan has revealed how Cratloe’s dual players made a private pact vowing not to allow their football heartache affect their AIB Munster club hurling bid.

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Tired limbs and bruised bodies will emerge through the tunnel at Cusack Park tomorrow afternoon, hurlers from both sides carried by the big M: momentum.

Clare might have made an underwhelming fist of defending their All-Ireland title but 2014 has still been a very special year for Conor McGrath, confirming the 23-year-old’s status as one of the country’s leading hurlers.

Gardaí are investigating a crash in Cork City which left six people needing hospital treatment.

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.

Limerick footballer John Galvin says it is remarkable that only the second senior club game he has started should yield him a county championship medal after guiding his adopted club Cratloe to glory in Clare on Sunday.

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Jody O’Connor was the first speaker on stage at last January’s GAA Games Development Conference.

As one season draws to a close, Dónal Óg Cusack looks to the hurling gods and reveals the dream scenario for 2015.

Cratloe football boss Colm Collins has described the decision of Limerick veteran John Galvin to switch club allegiances across the border as a "fantastic lift" for the Clare outfit.

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A good game at Semple Stadium yesterday, a good win for Clare but what I found most surprising is it seemed that the Clare support outnumbered Tipperary. Why was that? It comes down to confidence.

Many parts of the country is bracing itself for further flooding today as yet another Atlantic storm looks set to hit.

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Up to 35,000 homes across the country remain without power this afternoon.

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