Irish Water Safety (IWS) has called for compulsory aquatic training for primary school children as part of a long-term strategy to prevent future drowning tragedies.

Four people have been airlifted to hospital following two separate incidents in Kilkee, Co Clare, this afternoon.

THE off-duty garda who died after falling from a cliff in Co Clare on Thursday was the 10th person to be killed in such circumstances on the Clare coastline in the past five years.

A body recovered from the sea in Co Clare has been identified as that of a man in his 70s, whose boat capsized in Kilkee Bay on Thursday.

A Polish man in his mid-30s has died in Ennis General Hospital after he fell from a cliff in Kilkee Bay in Co Clare.

A Polish fisherman has been airlifted to hospital after falling from a cliff in Co Clare.

Ireland is to hold its first Surf and Music Festival in Co Clare in September.

IT wasn’t just sausages that sizzled at a beach barbecue in the West Clare resort of Kilkee.