The company that employed two workers who drowned in a tragic accident on the River Shannon on Saturday has described their deaths as “heartbreaking”.

A CASH-STRAPPED Catholic diocese has received over €670,000 in a will.

THE body of a woman, for whom a massive search was launched on Thursday, was discovered in a wooded area in south east Clare early yesterday.

A THREE-MILE stretch of the Shannon River near Limerick city has been declared a poaching black-spot.