As the vehicle lay on its roof, with the young couple and baby trapped inside, smoke began to appear from the front of the vehicle.

Trish Dromey gets the lowdown on quirky, stylish and spacious property in Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co Clare.

Millions of eyeballs will focus on a small rectangle in Cardiff tonight, with three of the four major world heavyweight titles on the line. Both fighters are undefeated, both are heroes in their own countries.

Gardaí seized around €70,000 worth of cocaine and arrested two people in Co. Tipperary yesterday.

Celebrations took place around the country yesterday as Junior Certificate results were received by more than 61,000 students.

A 22-year-old man who uploaded the Facebook profile pictures of 19 girls to a pornographic site was praised by a judge for the progress he was making under the care of the Probation Services.

A 22-year-old Shannon man yesterday pleaded guilty to charges in connection with uploading the Facebook profile pictures of 19 girls to a pornographic site.

Clare County Council yesterday voted through a number of last-minute, contentious rezonings against the recommendations of its acting chief executive, Ger Dollard.

A young man accused of uploading the Facebook profile pictures of 19 girls to a pornographic site has appeared in court for the second time.

A 22-year-old Shannon man yesterday appeared at Ennis District court charged in connection with uploading 19 girls’ Facebook profile pictures to a pornographic site.

The last stretch of rail network that has remained closed due to flooding following storms in December is expected to reopen today.

A Limerick man who was clocked driving at 140km/h during a car chase with gardaí proved too quick for red-faced prison officers yesterday when he escaped custody and ran out of Ennis courthouse along with another prisoner.

The whizz at Greek grammar, nicknamed ‘Snowball’ by his classmates, yesterday recalled clandestine bets at the bookies, porridge without glucose and compulsory hurling on Wednesdays at his alma mater.

A Shannon grandfather was attacked in the hallway of his home while being terrorised by a group of youths in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2012.

AIB MUNSTER CLUB SFC FINAL:

Sixmilebridge 1-10 Newmarket-on-Fergus 0-11

I was in Cork last Sunday at their county final, Midleton beating holders Sarsfields; I was in Ennis then yesterday as Sixmilebridge took the title from Newmarket-on-Fergus in the Clare final. In both games the teams did their absolute best, but I have to say I’m really annoyed.

With a first county senior hurling title since 1991 safely under their belt, the next focus for Midleton has to be the Munster title — so says former great John Fenton. The only Cork club to have won the provincial crown since his own side did it in 1987 has been Newtownshandrum.

There are All-Ireland home-comings, and then there was Clare last Sunday, a homecoming with a difference — certainly different to what we saw in the ’90s.

The Banner roared last night as 30,000 supporters turned out in Ennis to give a tumultuous welcome to the victorious All-Ireland senior hurlers with the Liam MacCarthy Cup.

From the air, it looks a bit like the biggest rock concert ever — 700 acres of stalls, tents, stands, enclosures, and amazing machinery that could easily pass for a U2 set-up.

Blink and you’ve missed it, the village of Tubber that is.

Dromoland Castle Holdings Limited, the owner/operator of the luxury resort in Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co Clare, recorded sales revenues of €13.7m for full-year 2012.

Gardaí were last night investigating the deaths of two motorcyclists in separate accidents over the weekend.

A High Court judge has called on the Government to introduce legislation making it a criminal offence to post “patently untrue” allegations against any person on the internet.

CONNACHT went fancy dress, Leinster travelled to Sean O’Brien’s local, Munster called on an old friend and Ulster spent the night recalling a trip from hell.

A LIMERICK man is in a serious, but stable, condition in hospital in Australia following a road collision that claimed the life of his US girlfriend.

GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI will name his Irish squad for next month’s friendly against Croatia on Friday, when he and Marco Tardelli attend the FAI’s Festival of Football in Clare on the eve of the association’s AGM in Ennis.

YOU can take a winner at Clonakilty Agricultural Show anywhere.

TRIBUTES have been paid to the late Louis Creaven, who as chairman of the Mid-Western Hospitals Development Trust, led many health initiatives in the region.

RESIDENTS in a rural area of Co Clare have been asked to be patient for a few weeks after a nesting bird took up residence in their local postbox in recent days.

CLARE County Council has expressed concern that there may be a repeat of an incident last weekend where tankers had to be used to keep a local reservoir topped up because it was unable to meet the demand of over 30,000 consumers.

THE celebrated Virginia Show, home of the prestigious Baileys cow championship, will be held this year on a new date – Saturday, July 31.

IARNRÓD Éireann has confirmed that the Ennis-Limerick railway line has reopened after it was closed for almost eight weeks due to flooding.

Care is being urged on the roads today as temperatures are set to hit -8C in some areas.

Flood response efforts continue across County Clare with local authority staff, Clare County Fire and Rescue, the Army and Gardaí providing 24-hour cover to the flooding crisis.

DURING the summer, the discovery of what some people believed was a sacred tree, in a church grounds in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, led to sensational headlines that set off a religious frenzy.

DESPITE lengthy and torrential downpour just hours earlier, Andrea Corr and Brett Desmond were blessed with blue skies and glorious sunshine for their wedding in Miltown Malbay, Co Clare.