THE neighbourhood of Springfield just outside Clonlara village in south east Clare is in the forefront of the battle against the raging lower Shannon.

Two Limerick secondary schools have been left reeling after losing their long-awaited artificial hockey pitch to Saturday’s floods.

A SCHOOLGIRL killed in a road accident yesterday played for her county in a packed Croke Park on All-Ireland Football final day, it emerged last night.

AS she prepared for the latest round of RTÉ’s You’re A Star programme next Sunday, teenage singing sensation Maeve O’Donovan yesterday spoke of her first, and saddest, public performance.