Trish Dromey visits a Georgian home for the modern world in Parteen, Co Clare, on the banks of the Shannon.

On the evening of the Clare-Wexford game two weeks ago, I left Cork and headed straight to Whitegate, the last outpost in east Clare, right on the Galway border.

Battle lines have been drawn in Limerick over a decision by the City and County Council to give the go-ahead for a roadway linking Annacotty in the eastern suburbs to Parteen on the western side of the city.

Funeral arrangements are being prepared for devoted teenage sweethearts Gary Kelly and Delia Keary after they both lost their lives following a head-on road collision, last Friday.

Hundreds of residents in South East Clare have been left high and dry for five days after a water main burst last Saturday.

NOT surprisingly, as the Government meets in Cabinet session today to draw up a flood emergency strategy, the despairing prayer on the lips of those struggling to keep flood waters at bay is that their terrifying ordeal will never happen again.

Irish Water’s plan to extract water from the lower reaches of the Shannon to meet the needs of the greater Dublin area is not a straightforward matter of pipes and pumps, according to Pat Aherne.

As retired friends walked to their car after their regular afternoon game of pitch and putt, they were mown down by a speeding car which was being pursued by gardaí following a burglary, a court heard.

Clare County Council recently voted through the incorporation of the Northern Distributor Road and the re-zoning of lands in south east Clare into the Clare County Development Plan.

An 86-year-old man and his wife face the prospect of a new four-lane €120m roadway going through their four-bedroom home.

A former Limerick hurling legend yesterday told how his life changed irreparably, due to catastrophic injuries, when he was mowed down by a burglar during a high-speed chase with gardaí.

A pensioner injured in a dramatic hit-and-run accident in Co Clare has passed away.

A man has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious harm to two pensioners, one of whom lost his leg, following a hit and run incident outside a pitch and putt course in Co Clare.

Thousands of people are set to take to the streets across Ireland tomorrow in a series of water charges protests.

Bail was yesterday refused for a Limerick man who, it was claimed, made full and frank admissions of being the driver of a car which struck three elderly men in Parteen village last Thursday while being pursued by gardaí.

It has emerged the 26-year-old driver of a car that drove into three elderly pedestrians in Parteen in Co Clare on Thursday was on bail at the time of the incident.

One of the men knocked down by an out-of-control car was so covered in blood and dust the local parish priest couldn’t even recognise his friend.

GSOC has launched an investigation in Co Clare after three men were seriously injured after being hit by a car that was being pursued by Gardaí.

Three pensioners were seriously injured after they were struck by a car being pursued by gardaí in Parteen, Co Clare.

Two male elderly pedestrians have been knocked down and seriously injured by a stolen car which was being pursued by Gardaí in Parteen, Co Clare.

Ten closure orders and a prohibition order were served by the Food Safety Authority for breaches of food safety legislation last month.

A priest whose parish straddles the Clare/Limerick border admitted yesterday he will be “storming the heavens” at Sunday Mass tomorrow for the Limerick hurlers, even though most of his flock will be cheering on the Banner in Croke Park when the counties clash in the All Ireland senior hurling semi-final. The winners will face Cork.

As someone born and reared close to the border — just off the main road to Ennis on the banks of the Shannon in Cratloe — I grew up with first-hand experience of the Clare and Limerick rivalry.

Ireland’s farming community is in mourning this week for former IFA president Paddy Lane, whose funeral took place yesterday in his native Parteen, Co Clare.

A Co Clare couple have spoken of their shock at being told of plans to demolish their home of almost 50 years to facilitate the construction of a controversial road.

A RETIRED school teacher received fatal injuries when hit by a falling branch which had been broken off when hit by a passing lorry, an inquest heard yesterday.

Thousands of households around the country are without water today as crews battle to repair leaks, restore supplies and replenish reservoir levels.

A PUBLICAN abducted on a business visit to west Africa thanked the local police yesterday for freeing him from an armed gang.

THE Clare publican who was abducted by an armed gang in Sierra Leone returned to Parteen yesterday after his terrifying ordeal.

RESIDENTS of a village on the outskirts of Limerick were said to be flabbergasted yesterday on learning a local publican was at the centre of a West African gunpoint abduction in a scene straight out of a Frederick Forsythe novel.

Water will be shut off in Tulla and Broadford in Co Clare today from 11am to 4pm and again tonight from 8pm to 8am.

IT was the turn of Kildare and Dublin to deal with the deluge yesterday as flood warnings were issued in both counties.

The ESB has confirmed it is to release more water from Parteen Weir.

The ESB has announced that it will increase the discharge of water from Parteen Weir today, adding about three inches to water levels downstream as far as Limerick city.

RESIDENTS were bracing themselves last night as the lower Shannon threatened to burst its banks for a second day and with Co Clare under a severe flood warning.

Clare County Council has confirmed that the ESB will not be increasing the release of water at Parteen today.

THE ESB stopped releasing water from the Ardnacrusha power station and Parteen dam last night to help ease the threat of flooding to hundreds of homes on the Limerick city side of the power station.

Energy chiefs today warned of further possible damaging floods along the Shannon after the swollen river reached record levels.