A status red wind warning is now in place for Clare and Galway as Storm Jorge hits Ireland.

Declan Kelly’s international public relations firm Teneo has bought the Co Clare- based Bridge PR — whose accounts include the Shannon Airport-and-heritage-owner Shannon Group, Limerick local authorities, and the Bon Secours private hospital in Cork.

I’ve ducked and dodged and weaved like Lionel Messi the footballer, but the Christmas season is also the time for confessing and repenting.

A charity rower had to be rescued from the River Shannon in Co Clare this afternoon after he got into difficulty in the strong currents.

The family of the late and much-loved comedian Brendan Grace has today honoured one of his last wishes by having his photo installed in the Shannon Airport ‘Wall of Fame’.

Des O'Sullivan rounds up the latest news from the antique world.

Three men were forced to abandon their lake boat and jump into the River Shannon after they collided with a bridge.

There may be an element of people trafficking in the case where a 32-year-old Vietnamese woman is charged with cultivating cannabis at luxury lakeside home, Tinarana House.

BlackBee Investments has also created a new company, Aperee, to manage what will be the single largest private sector investment in the long-term healthcare sector.

From pig farming to Reiki master seems like a bit of a stretch, but that’s the direction Caroline Rigney is taking. For the last 21 years she’s been as happy as a pig in chemical-free manure, producing the best possible food to sustain a lifestyle she and her husband chose to rear their two daughters, Rebecca, 29 and Rachel, 27.

As July signals the start of the ritual marching season for our Orange brethren, in readiness for their huge Twelfth of July rallies, on the other side of the historic border which is convulsing this chaotic Brexit business, ye will please forgive me, for strolling down Memory Lane.

June is drizzling down all over, and the mayflies have gone into hiding in the bushes around my backyard slice of Lough Derg, at Killaloe.

A 32-year-old Vietnamese woman charged with cultivating cannabis at Tinarana House told Gardaí that she was forced to do it.

A Vietnamese woman in her early 20s is to appear in court in Co Clare this evening in connection with the seizure of €900,000 worth of cannabis.

The garda dog Laser found a woman hiding in the attic of a growhouse in Clare today where almost €900,000 worth of cannabis plants have been discovered.

The find was made at premises at Tinarana in Killaloe today.

Des O’Sullivan casts an eye over Morgan O’Driscoll’s online art sale BISHOP Willie Walsh of Killaloe is generally considered by liberals in Ireland to be one of the good guys.

A major search was launched on Lough Derg in Co Clare this evening amid fears that a kayaker was missing or in difficulty.

There are some startling truths out there.

The RNLI and Irish Coast Guard rescued four people and a dog in separate incidents on Lough Derg this afternoon.

Four people, including a young child, had to be helped by an RNLI lifeboat this evening after their cruiser got into difficulty on Lough Derg.

You could hold a wedding in this 5,000 sq ft Ballina home — in fact that’s what its owners did, writes Trish Dromey.

The Gael Warning I accurately issued last week can be downgraded somewhat by now, thank heavens.

Many’s the time most of us of a certain generation have been heard to utter the old country saying, “Well, that beats Banagher!” when shocked and awed by an unexpected development of one kind or another.

I have to issue a health and safety warning to all of you before proceeding any further today, says Cormac MacConnell.

Karen Murray talks to a fundraiser who has personal reasons for getting on his bike to help raise vital monies for Down Syndrome Ireland.

On the evening of the Clare-Wexford game two weeks ago, I left Cork and headed straight to Whitegate, the last outpost in east Clare, right on the Galway border.

Headline acts Jack L, Hudson Taylor, Celine Byrne, and Paul Brady will showcase their talents this summer in a spectacular outdoor theatre where an exhausted limestone quarry was once used as a public dump.

There is something magical about embarking on a boat trip into the past where for part of your journey there is almost nothing modern in the scene before you apart from the bow of the boat, writes Dan MacCarthy.

In a week when the ethos of Munster Rugby has been thrust under the spotlight, perhaps it is fitting the man who was the very embodiment of such ideals and beliefs was honoured forever in Limerick.

In a week when the ethos of Munster Rugby has been thrust under the spotlight, perhaps it is fitting the man who was the embodiment of such ideals and beliefs will be honoured forever in Limerick.

An investigation has been launched after a serious car crash in Co Clare in the early hours of this morning.

Anthony Foley’s aura will be all around Thomond Park tomorrow, says Ronan O’Gara.

“At the very worst time in life, we saw the very best of others."