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.

Kilmurry-Ibrickane, champions for the past two seasons, were brought back down to earth at Cusack Park on Saturday when they succumbed to an impressive Cratloe by 0-11 to 0-4, in round one.

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.

Mediation efforts between a Clare school principal and a parent who assaulted him have broken down after a Catholic bishop said he could not intervene.

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

A SENIOR member of Clare County Council said yesterday that “west Clare seems to be for the birds and not for the people”.

A PUBLICAN abducted on a business visit to west Africa thanked the local police yesterday for freeing him from an armed gang.

THE sister of the 26-year-old school teacher who died following an alleged assault in Ennis on St Stephen’s night has described her brother “as a role model, inspiring son and loyal friend”.

A 19-year-old woman has been killed in a road crash in Co. Clare.

THE prestigious breeders’ championship at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show was won by a nine-year-old bay mare owned by Margaret Jeffares, Ballykelly House, Drinagh, Co Wexford.

ALL the arguments that are based on ethical, legal and moral considerations against the use of Shannon Airport by the American military have fallen on deaf ears in Dublin.

A community pledged tonight to rally around a mother and her three sons after her husband and 10-year-old boy died in a tragic quarry accident.