A quick sweep of the archives would show it is perhaps not the greatest surprise that Kieren Fallon has called time on his career in the saddle.

For a while there, the dunes of Banna Strand were threatening to become for Kerry what the hill in Crusheen was for the Clare hurlers in 1995 or the Spartan-esque Bere Island for Cork’s footballers in 2010. 

A 25-hour wait by a 101-year-old Co Clare grandmother on a trolley at the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) has been described as "inhumane, deplorable, and disgraceful".

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”.

Red tape, over a missing ‘o’ in the name O’Donovan, has led a judge to describe the speeding prosecution system as “totally daft, unreal and unbearable”.

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.

DROMORE WOOD LOOP, COUNTY CLARE

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.

Dramatic video footage of the moment a car sped past unsuspecting motorists on the wrong side of a busy dual-carriageway earlier this month has appeared online.

A construction firm that splurged €400,000 on a derelict toilet at the height of the building boom is only surviving now because its bank is rolling up its interest payments.

A judge said that a man driving 178km/h on a motorway must have been driving an "airborne vehicle".

A coroner is to write to the National Roads Authority after an inquest heard a woman lost her life after driving through “a lake of water” on a motorway.

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has baulked at the €2.1m price tag put on a rail stop to serve a village with a population of 864 people.

Tributes were paid yesterday to one of the country’s best known balladeers Robbie McMahon who helped popularise the Irish immigrant ballad, Spancil Hill.

Irish Rail is being stymied in its plans to upgrade the €106m Western Rail Corridor, it has emerged.

It was a different world twenty years ago. Most counties knew their place in the GAA’s hierarchy.

ACCORDING to Wikipedia, Crusheen is “a small village located 10 kilometres northeast of Ennis in County Clare, Ireland, consists of a church, Garda station, three public houses, post office, a shop-cum-petrol station, funeral home, and a pharmacy.”

Well-known seanachaí Eddie Lenihan recalls the dares and games of Halloween to Carl Dixon.

THE €106 million Western Rail Corridor was given a boost yesterday when a new station on the route got the green light.

YOUR news item (June 10), on the Western Rail Corridor, states that although the Western Rail Corridor had a “creditable year” passenger numbers are “well short” of the anticipated numbers.

Thousands of households around the country are without water today as crews battle to repair leaks, restore supplies and replenish reservoir levels.

A 17-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl has died in hospital from injuries she sustained in a horse-riding accident in Co Clare.

The Minister for Transport will open the Gort bypass later today, where he will be faced with farmers who are angry over the lack of action since last year's devastating floods.

MICHAEL BROWNE knows plenty about bringing teams to the Promised Land.

THE story of the immigrant ballad Spancil Hill is as pertinent today as it was when Robbie McMahon first sang the song over 60 years ago.

AN 80-year-old retired farmer who has lived in fear of cars crashing into his home for over a decade, may soon be able to use his front door again following news that Clare County Council will erect a crash barrier outside his home.

CLARE County Council has expressed concern that there may be a repeat of an incident last weekend where tankers had to be used to keep a local reservoir topped up because it was unable to meet the demand of over 30,000 consumers.

BOXING legend Muhammad Ali’s Ennis relatives yesterday joined with former world boxing champion Barry McGuigan to celebrate Ali’s historic visit to Ennis one year ago.

Traffic is slowly returning to normal following an earlier collision on the Main Ennis to Galway road.

A four-year-old drinking water alert affecting some 30,000 residents of Co. Clare has finally been lifted.

THE main Cork-Dublin road was closed for nearly five hours yesterday after a head-on collision left two drivers with serious injuries.

Three people have been injured in a two-car collision in Co Clare tonight.

The AA is advising motorists in Co Clare to expect delays because of two serious collisions on the N18.

Thousands of residents in Co Clare have been issued with boil water notices after traces of E-Coli were found in the water supply, it emerged today.

IRISH RAIL has ruled out the reopening of the Crusheen railway station, within the planned Western Rail Corridor, as the population of the area does not support such a move.

A lorry driver has been rushed to hospital in Co Clare after his truck hit a railway bridge and overturned.

Two teenagers have been reported missing in separate incidents in Galway and Mayo.

A dozen members from young Fine Gael made the long walk from Galway to Ennis today to raise funds for suicide awareness.

Gardaí in Galway are appealing for witnesses to an accident in Co Galway which left one woman dead and a man seriously injured in hospital.