Organisers of an annual charity rugby match held each year in memory of “fallen” rugby stars, are to dedicate this year’s event to two young rugby players who lost their lives in a double drowning tragedy.

Gardaí are investigating a fire which destroyed a house in a Traveller accommodation development in Clare.

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

Clare County Council is set to stop building accommodation units for Travellers.

CLARE county manager Tom Coughlan has recommended that councillors not proceed with a flurry of last-minute rezoning for housing in the Ennis area.