After cancellation last year the Rás Tailteann will return to the Irish sporting calendar for 2020 with the route confirmed for the five-day race which runs from June 10-14.

A kayaker spent almost two hours trapped in a raging river in a 35ft deep gorge in Co Clare while five others managed to escape to safety.

St Breckans from North Clare will meet Kerry’s Templenoe in the Munster Club IFC final after a well-deserved victory over Tipperary title-holders Moycarkey-Borris at Lisdoonvarna yesterday.

Ireland has won two of three special awards at the 2020 Michelin star ceremony in London, while a Kinsale,Co Cork restaurant has become one of the three latest Irish eateries to receive the world-famous recognition.

Six Irish restaurants have become new recipients of the Michelin Star.

A 51- year old man with a terminal illness and who sued his employer over alleged exposure to silica dust has settled his High Court action.

On Saturday night, 24 October 1915, a group of about 25 men from Queen’s County were staying in a hotel on Gardiner Street in Dublin. They were the hurlers of Leix – as Queen’s County was officially known in GAA circles – and they were in Dublin to play the All-Ireland hurling final against Cork.

The Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience has launched a new shuttle bus service to the famous Irish attraction.

The crew was flying to the Aran Islands last night for a training exercise when the dangerous green laser light was aimed at their aircraft.

THE Wild Honey Inn is a former Victorian hostelry dating back to 1841 when well-heeled gentry regularly decamped to Lisdoonvarna to ‘take the waters’ and restore ailing spirits with spa treatments, and was lovingly restored a decade ago by chef/proprietor Aidan McGrath and his partner Kate Sweeney, who looks after accommodation and restaurant front of house.

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Fears at rapidly depleting water supplies with no rain forecast.

Thirty people arrived in the Co Clare town yesterday with an estimated total of 115 to arrive in the coming months.

Locals have rejected plans to accommodate 115 asylum seekers in a Clare town.

A 30% surge in asylum seeker applications here last year has resulted in the State moving to open “as a matter of urgency” a new direct provision centre in Lisdoonvarna in north Clare.

A pensioner farmer prevented three armed plain-clothes members of a Garda drugs unit from gaining access to his home because he thought they were “thugs in hoodies”.

A 19th-century inn in Co Clare has become the latest Irish restaurant to be added to the prestigious Michelin star list.

Sweeping brushes and spades may be the physical tools of success in the Tidy Towns but the crucial factor is partnership.

reland boasts some of the world’s best roads. John O’Mahony went exploring in the spectacular new BMW 5 series

A South African widow who has sold her house and business to find love in Lisdoonvarna is attracting unprecedented interest from would-be suitors ahead of the start of the matchmaking festival.

A man was airlifted to hospital after he fell about five metres while rock climbing in Co Clare, it has emerged.

The Roadside Tavern is a good old-fashioned family-run Irish pub, hosting excellent trad sessions and Ireland’s first micro-brewery.

A taxi driver, who a court was told yesterday was “lying through his teeth,” has withdrawn a €60,000 damages claim for personal injuries he allegedly suffered in a road traffic accident.

Ireland’s last matchmaker, Willie Daly, is taking his unique talents to the high seas next week as he attempts to bring love to those taking a lavish Caribbean Cruise.

A search will resume on tomorrow morning for a man reported missing in north Clare this afternoon.

A single man who ended up “empty-handed” at Lisdoonvarna match-making festival has been told “to go out there with more serious intent” next year.

A bachelor farmer in a remote part of South Kerry, who was given time to organise his cattle and a chance to go to Lisdoonvarna to find “a nice woman” to drive him around during his disqualification for drink-driving, has been put off the road for three years.

Small, well-presented and seeking new prospects... maybe more? That’s the possible sales pitch for Daly’s bar in Co Clare’s Ennistymon, long associated with the family of famed Clare matchmaker Willie Daly, and freshly up for grabs.

A 60-year-old man has been described as carrying out despicable thefts around the country — particularly one where he stole €1,000 from a 79-year-old woman in Bantry who acted as a Good Samaritan and took pity on him.

I know I mentioned it here before but, in all fairness, as the TV advertising continues apace, it is now time for the IFA to strongly intervene with the relevant authorities over the portrayal of that idiot farmer with a pig in the parlour, and nothing better to do than watch films on the box in the corner, while the bonham slumbers in a chair which is more opulently cushioned than the one on which I am sitting now.

Years ago, there used to be this programme on the box called ‘Highway to Heaven’.