An Bord Pleanála has given the go-ahead for a new €6m wind farm in west Clare.

A man has received a four-year sentence for terrorising a 64-year-old unmarried farmer who was assaulted and tied up at his isolated home during the ordeal.

The excitement was reaching fever pitch yesterday ahead of the St Patrick’s Day parade in Ennis, Co Clare, as a group of ‘new Irish’ Nigerians raised their voices to sing ‘Ireland’s Call’.

A 64-year-old bachelor farmer yesterday told of his terror at being assaulted and tied up by two men at his isolated home.

Clare GAA chiefs are investigating how a gate at Cusack Park became dislodged within feet of a child’s buggy at the weekend.

The endangered fresh water pearl mussel has struck again – this time to knock back another large scale, €54m wind-farm in west Clare.

It was the summer of 2005, when Cratloe’s footballers first announced themselves on the local scene.

Students at home and abroad are among dozens of groups who are close to setting a record for the longest conversation in Irish.

Jody O’Connor was the first speaker on stage at last January’s GAA Games Development Conference.

Cratloe are poised to challenge for a senior hurling and football double in the Banner county.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said it is hopeful judges and legal professionals will soon take part in education programmes to help them better understand the consequences of sexual crimes.

Colm Collins’ appointment as Clare football manager last October garnered but a few inches of space in the national papers.

AIB MUNSTER CLUB SFC FINAL:

It certainly wasn’t your traditional county final celebration but Podge Collins wouldn’t have it any other way.

Cratloe made it through to their first Clare SFC final when they defeated Éire Óg, Ennis 2-8 to 0-9 in the semi-final at Clarecastle yesterday.

Lissycasey edged into the Clare SFC semi-final after extra-time at Clarecastle yesterday, beating Ennistymon by 0-9 to 1-4.

Pádraig Chaplin is fine-tuning the wiring in Setrights tavern.

Contentious plans for a €20m windfarm near a small village in west Clare have been put on hold.

Tipperary may be overwhelming favourites to beat Clare in this evening’s Cadbury Munster U21 football championship semi-final at Semple Stadium (7.30pm) but with Joe Garry in charge of the visiting Banner, anything is possible.

West Clare man Jim Scanlan said it is “devastating” for the village of Kilmihil to be losing its Garda station.

The competitive edge to delivering babies is never more to the fore than New Year’s Eve when maternity units around the country vie for the title of “first baby”.

CHAMPIONS Crusheen advanced to the last four of the Clare senior hurling championship after a 1-24 to 0-10 win over Broadford at Clarecastle yesterday.

With the Dublin Horse Show on this week, Colman Garrihy offers a personal perspective on the Irish draught

A 30-YEAR-OLD man at the centre of a garda car chase in Ennis town centre on Wednesday afternoon was yesterday jailed for contempt of court for one week for harassing a Garda witness while giving evidence.

IT’S a scene replicated everywhere in Ireland, new clubs coming to the fore in county finals.

A man in his 20s is in a serious condition in Limerick's Mid-Western Regional Hospital following a single vehicle collision in County Clare this morning.

Clare 1-6 Kerry 0-6

IN the second round of group games in the Clare SFC, St Breckan’s had an easy 0-12 to 0-4 win over last year’s IFC winners Cratloe at Cusack Park on Saturday, having lead 0-8 to 0-1 at the break.

THOSE who missed Comet Tempel1 last night may not have the opportunity to see it again, as astronomers are unsure how long more it will be visible for.

PARENTS of more than 30 second-level students are considering moving their children to a different school because they say their bus service has been withdrawn by the Department of Education.

EUROPE’S biggest on-shore wind energy farm will soon be built in Co Mayo.