Two Limerick brothers today appeared in court charged with the double rape of a young teenage girl in north Clare two years ago.

Gardaí say it is understood from initial investigations that the car collided with a wall.

The brother of a republican prisoner who died on hunger strike has opened up about the bizarre events surrounding the commandeering of his brother’s body by the government en route to his funeral.

Gardaí have seized cannabis worth an estimated street value of €21,000 in a search in Co Clare.

An 18-year-old man was killed, and two others were critically injured, in an early morning crash in Co Clare on Sunday.

Gardaí in Dublin are still searching for a missing teenager believed to be armed with a riffle

A man who was arrested in connection with an investigation into a robbery at a shop in Ennis has been released without charge.

Latest: Gardaí have arrested a third man in connection with a fatal stabbing at Marion Estate, Kilkee, Co Clare.

A 19-year-old Slovakian man has appeared in court charged with the dangerous driving causing the death of GAA coach Eugene McNamara.

Revenue officers have seized drugs and cigarettes with a combined street value of €23,500 in Counties Clare and Tipperary.

Coroner stops short of suicide verdict ruling that girl died by asphyxia.

€80,000 worth of drugs have been seized in County Clare today.

A man has been arrested in Co. Clare in connection with an armed robbery at a retail outlet in Bunratty.

A man is in hospital after a collision between two cars in Co. Clare last night.

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A man has been arrested by gardaí, who are investigating a violent carjacking in Limerick city.

A judge yesterday banned a 74-year-old peace activist from entering Co Clare arising from an alleged incursion into Shannon Airport.

An Army bomb squad has carried out a controlled explosion on a vintage grenade that was handed into Ennis Garda station this morning.

A court has refused to return a passport to a Clare woman, whose partner is involved in organised crime in Limerick, to allow her go on a foreign holiday.

Elderly shoppers and a wheelchair user with special needs had to take cover as bottles of wine flew through the air in a mid-morning battle at a shopping centre.

A man is recovering in hospital following a shooting incident in Co Clare last night.

A man arrested in a busy town square after smashing a TV set with an axe has claimed he was engaging in “conceptual artwork”.

A man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly produced an axe and smashed up a television set in a busy town square.

A man, arrested in Co Clare yesterday after a water meter installer was threatened with a gun, has today been released without charge.

A Munster senior title-winning hurler turned up at Ennis Garda Station last Christmas with his head bloodied and bruised after being struck by a beer glass and a stick.

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.

Gardaí have arrested a man following a robbery in Ennis, Co. Clare this morning.

A pedestrian who died after a hit and run was more than four times over the legal limit for alcohol.

A judge has said what the men behind the glass do in their speed camera vans has long been shrouded in mystery, with people wondering if they spend their time reading the Beano or the Dandy.

Gardaí at Ennis have arrested two males this afternoon after a spate of manhole-cover robberies in the locality.

An elderly woman has been killed when she was struck by a car at around 1.40pm in Ennis, Co Clare, today.

A man's been arrested after a major drugs seizure in Co Clare.

A man has been arrested after a drugs seizure in Ennis, Co Clare last night.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the discovery of two separate cannabis growing plants in Co Clare.

Gardaí have arrested a man in connection with a shooting incident in Ennis in the early hours of New Year's Day.

A mass brawl in a pub “was like a scene out of a Wild West movie”, a garda told a court yesterday.

A murder trial has heard that the accused thought he had done the world a service by killing the devil and couldn't understand why he was being detained on suspicion of murder.

A file has been sent to the DPP following the arrest of a woman in connection with a fatal hit and run that claimed the life of a Polish father of one.

A priest told mourners for the late homeless man Josef Pavelka last night it is not a time to be angry, but a time to remember “a real legend of a man we all knew”.

A young woman who was stabbed in Co Clare yesterday has been transferred to Cork University Hospital where she is said to be in a stable condition.

A teenage girl has been arrested and a woman is in a serious condition in hospital following a stabbing in County Clare.

Contracts for the construction of a €7.1m flood defence system for the town of Ennis were signed yesterday — more than three years after the devastating floods of Nov 2009.