A fireman yesterday described how he saw a five-year-old girl screaming “help, help, help my mom” as she stood in the street and beside her dying 27-year-old mother who had just sustained multiple stab wounds.

The town of Kildysart had seen its share of traffic-related tragedies before the violent double death of a South African couple.

Gardaí have said they are not looking for a third party in their investigation into the deaths of two people in Co. Clare last night.

Gardaí in Clare are treating the discovery of two bodies in Kildysart as suspicious.

Drinking water restrictions which affected 3,300 customers in Co Clare have been lifted.

Clare County Council says water restrictions will remain in place in the Kildysart area until at least next Tuesday.

From scaling mountain peaks to iconic global landmarks — Cork and Clare hurling fans are going to great lengths and heights to show their true colours ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland showdown.

A quick-thinking farmer used a tractor and chain to pull a man and his 4x4 from the Shannon Estuary in Co Clare on Monday night.

Gardaí were last night investigating the deaths of two motorcyclists in separate accidents over the weekend.

Sharon Collins has lost her appeal against her convictions for soliciting a man to murder her wealthy lover PJ Howard and his two sons.

A MAJOR search and rescue operation was mounted on the Shannon Estuary late on Sunday night for a man who was later found safe and well at home, oblivious to the efforts under way to locate him.

THE High Court liquidation of five Whelan group companies has ended the quarry group’s 11-year long battle to construct a contentious €10 million explosives plant on the Shannon estuary.

ONE of the top awards in the cattle section at Cappamore Show in Co Limerick was kept in the county.

Clare woman Sharon Collins will today appeal her conviction for conspiring to murder her wealthy lover and his two sons.

A museum is trying to track down the family of a First World War soldier whose Victory Medal was found buried in the grounds of a village church.

THE prestigious breeders’ championship at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show was won by west Cork exhibitors John and Cathal Dineen, Kilshinihan, Timoleague, with their seven-year-old chestnut, Kilshinihan Lass.

Two men are being questioned about a serious assault in Co Clare in the early hours of Monday morning.

A man is critically ill in hospital following an incident in Co Clare overnight.

WEST CORK breeder and exhibitor Denis Dullea, Killountain, Bandon, made his long journey to the Roscommon Show worthwhile last weekend.

Three young men have died in separate overnight road accidents in counties Donegal, Wexford and Clare.

AN 86-YEAR-OLD woman died from severe burns after her nightdress caught fire in the living room of her Co Clare farmhouse, an inquest heard last night.

An 86-year-old woman died from severe burns after her night-dress caught fire in the living room of her Co Clare farmhouse, an inquest heard tonight.

A 41-year-old man and his 12-year-old son have drowned in an accident at a quarry in Co Clare.

A 41-YEAR-OLD man and his young son died yesterday in Co Clare after the child fell into a quarry and his father jumped in to try and rescue him.

An Bord Pleanala has rejected a planning application for the construction of an explosives factory near the Co Clare village of Kildysart.