Tales of ghost ships and a hidden city are among a wealth of folklore explored by a pioneering heritage trail in a spectacular part of Clare which could provide a template for a series of walking routes along the Wild Atlantic Way.

Nearly three-quarters of homes in a Clare seaside village are unoccupied.

The westerly wind driving Storm Brigid switched the focus of the destruction witnessed in January, bringing havoc to a new list of coastal communities.

Recently, Fáilte Ireland announced that €8m will be invested in establishing and promoting the Wild Atlantic Way. This should bring a great boost to tourism up and down the west coast of Ireland.

The post office at Carrigaholt in Co Clare has reopened — but only because a local farmer was able to take the postmaster through flood waters from his home, one of six left cut off by the sea.

Two firms seeking to begin fracking in Ireland to release natural gas trapped in shale have confirmed initial positive results.

THE off-duty garda who died after falling from a cliff in Co Clare on Thursday was the 10th person to be killed in such circumstances on the Clare coastline in the past five years.

THE doors of the Loop Head lighthouse overlooking the Atlantic in west Clare were opened to the public yesterday for the first time — 341 years after the first lighthouse was built.

A €1.75 million cable suspension footbridge to link the historic Bishop’s Island to the Co Clare mainland “could be the ‘jewel in the crown’ of Ireland’s tourism.

A SEARCH will resume this morning for a Polish man in his 20s who fell into the sea at a popular fishing spot in west Clare yesterday.

Donal Hickey on the resurgence of interest in currachs