Members of a small Baptist church in west Clare will have to seek a new place of worship after being refused planning permission to use a shed attached to a residential home to assemble for prayer.

A young woman is recovering in hospital after she was struck by a bus and thrown over a ditch into a field in Co Clare.

STEPHEN GALLAGHER (An Post/Sean Kelly/Martin Donnelly) set out from Ballinamore yesterday morning hoping for a stage win, but by last night he had introduced an exciting new dimension to this year’s FBD Insurance Rás by claiming the race leader’s yellow jersey in a three-man sprint into Claremorris.

THERE will be familiar scenery for the race cavalcade to view when the 2008 FBD Insurance Rás hits the road on May 18.