Dáithí Ó Sé in conversation with Richard Fitzpatrick.

A meeting of the World Rally Commission in Geneva tomorrow to discuss next season’s Word Rally Championship may increase the possibility of an event returning to the island of Ireland.

Gardaí have seized cannabis worth an estimated street value of €21,000 in a search in Co Clare.

When the mood takes me, I’ll often head back to the Atlantic Ocean in west Clare for a dip. Living so close to the sea gives me that luxury and I have any amount of options; the Pollock Holes in Kilkee, Cappa near Kilrush, White Strand in Doonbeg, Spanish Point in Miltown Malbay. Beautiful spots, every one of them.

John Allen remains the last Cork hurling manager to win the All-Ireland — and the last Limerick manager to win the Munster Championship, yet his achievements and methods have tended to be underestimated.

An application for a large battery storage compound near an electricity substation on the Cork-Kerry border is being vigorously opposed by locals, who warn of a historic area being turned into “an industrial minefield”.

The body of a British soldier executed and buried in Co Clare almost 100 years ago has been exhumed and will be reburied in Dublin.

Dr Susan Crawford has become an expert in movement skills to help her son and others who are debilitated by catatonia, says Dan Buckley

Traffic division gardaí in Kerry were specifically watching for mobile phone use by all drivers, including bus drivers, in Killarney during the summer, a court has been told.

This week Paul Rouse tackles a subject dividing people for a number of reasons - hare coursing.

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.

Radie Peat is a musician and singer from Artane, Dublin. 

A woman who died after her car overturned into a field was not found for several hours. Catherine Lynch, 56, died late on Friday night. Her car drove off a narrow country road, at Shanaway West, near Miltown Malbay, in Co Clare.

An excellent second-half display saw Clare move into the last 12 of the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship following their seven-point defeat of an overpowered Sligo at Markievicz Park today.

Niall Carew has no need to dig into his reservoir of Clare football DVDs ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland qualifier third round game in Markievicz Park. 

A deaf victim of DoneDeal fraudster Patrick Matthews has been left “very hurt and angry” by his former flatmate’s deception.

A grieving father told an inquest yesterday that he has a real problem with the control of alcohol after hearing that his 20-year-old son fell to his death after an all-day drinking session.

Cratloe relinquished a second senior crown inside seven days, when their footballers were surprisingly beaten by Clondegad on a final scoreline of 1-12 to 0-11 in the quarter-final of the Clare SFC at Cusack Park yesterday.

A comedy video featuring a foul-mouthed Co Clare version of Postman Pat has been removed from YouTube, despite being viewed almost 100,000 times in just three days.

A fresh bail application is to be made next Monday for a 32-year-old man charged in connection with an alleged meat cleaver assault that left the victim with a 20-stitch laceration to the head.

Early results from a technical examination of a suspected mass grave in Co Clare have revealed “significant” evidence of underground disturbances, consistent with the presence of human remains.

A book of evidence has been served on a 32-year-old man arising from an alleged meat cleaver assault that left the victim with a 20-stitch laceration to the head.

The dismantled but famed West Clare Railway line is to breathe new life.

Traditional Irish music and Gaelic football, the foundation stones of life out Miltown Malbay direction.

The battle for next year’s general election in Clare will be a family affair, as Fianna Fáil’s John Hillery looks set to contest the election against his future son-in-law, Independent Michael McNamara.

Beaches and marinas across the country are bathing in the warm waters of European approval — 86 of them have been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag status.

A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the assault of a man in Miltown Malbay in Co Clare yesterday afternoon.

A heroin dealer armed with a lump hammer, claw hammer, and pepper spray on his way to robbing an isolated home belonging to two elderly brothers, has been jailed for 16 months.

Clare enjoyed a facile victory over a very poor Waterford side in the quarter-final of the Munster U-21 football championship at Miltown Malbay last evening.

Cork midfielder Ian Maguire has overcome a back injury and is selected for tomorrow’s Munster U21 football quarter-final against Limerick.

Clare 1-16 Wexford 0-5: Allianz Football League Division 3: Promoted Clare got their Division 3 campaign off to a winning start at Miltown Malbay yesterday, easily dismissing the challenge of Wexford by 14 points.

A senior garda told a court yesterday that a number of residents “were in fear of their lives” over the staging of an unofficial boy-racer rally in Clare last year.

ONE does not associate traditional music with Waterford in the way one does with the heartlands of Miltown Malbay or Cúil Aodha, but the thriving trad scene in the city reflects the healthy state of the genre in Ireland.

An undercover garda who posed as a boy-racer at a late night car rally said that if one of the cars performing ‘doughnuts’ had spun out of control, "it would have resulted in carnage".

The quarter-final pairings for the Clare SFC were finalised at the weekend.

Wind farm developments may be blown off course by a likely High Court challenge.

With kids in the back, tent packed and a Lexus GS 450h F Sport for transport, John O’Mahony hits the trail.

For much of the time, he served as a Clare delegate to the Munster Council before being elected chairman, Noel Walsh was a strong advocate of the inter-provincial competitions and in the vanguard of the movement to open up Croke Park to rugby and soccer.

Storms that ravaged Ireland’s coast at the start of the year have cost several beaches their coveted Blue Flag award.

Eighty blue flag awards have been given to beaches right around the country.