From the shore at Quilty in Co Clare, Mutton Island looks a flat, unappealing line. Great as a place to land if your boat is in trouble, but to visit there looks uninspiring.

The judge told the accused to "pull yourself together" after he broke down in tears.

Kerry supporters will have to wait until Dr Crokes’ involvement in the club championship comes to an end before Colm ‘Gooch’ Cooper decides on his inter-county future.

Dr Crokes (Kerry) 1-14 Kilmurry-Ibrickane (Clare) 0-8: The last time Dr Crokes travelled by road and sea from Killarney up to this scenic part of west Clare they got enough of a scare to ensure that they never took their foot off the pedal at Páirc Naoimh Mhuire yesterday.

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.

A team of divers is due to carry out a search off the coast of Co. Clare after a car was taken from the water there last night.

“This is Ireland.” These were the words a shocked Ann Davaris from New Jersey heard a stranger saying after she called her missing son Steve on his mobile number 11 years ago.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after he was pulled from the sea by a group of kayakers in Co Clare this morning.

A US Coast Guard life ring has been found on the Clare coast thousands of kilometres where from it was lost overboard in Florida.

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.

Munster champions Tramore needed all their fighting spirit after six years of campaigning together to reach today’s AIG Senior Cup final at Carton House.

Human bones found on an island off the Clare coast earlier this month could date to the 6th century.

Two young men lost their lives in separate accidents over the Easter weekend.

Met Éireann is expected to issue a red alert as gale force winds of up to 130km/h, high tides, rain, sleet, hail, and thunder hit the country this weekend.

Clare County Council will spend some €50,000 on emergency flood defences along a stretch of coastline worst affected by storms earlier this month, but over €2.5m will be required to complete permanent protection measures.

Families in Co Clare were evacuated from their seaside homes as windows and patio doors were blown in by 30m high waves which threw quarter-ton wall cappings 50m across a car park.

Different season but it’s the same old 2012 that Dr Crokes started as they didn’t mean to go on.

Dr Crokes (Kerry) 2-08 Kilmurry-Ibrickane (Clare) 0-13

Noel O’Leary was thrilled his Dr Crokes team were able to prove people wrong after yesterday becoming the first club since John Mitchels in the 1960s to win three consecutive Kerry SFC titles.

Castlehaven got the better of divisional side Duhallow in a scrappy Cork SFC final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh this afternoon, squeezing home by 1-7 to 0-9.

Family-run Wild Irish Sea Veg is tapping into consumers’ growing taste for seaweed and after bagging a deal with a NY deli and aiming to grow sales to Britain and beyond, there’s no limit to the company’s ambitions, writes Trish Dromey

Funerals will be held today for two men who died when their fishing boat sank off the coast of Co Clare on Monday.

The two fishermen who died side-by-side when their fishing boat mysteriously sank earlier this week will be buried following separate funerals today.

The bodies of two fishermen were recovered from the sea in Co Clare yesterday after their boat mysteriously sank on Monday evening.

Post-mortems are due to be carried out on the bodies of two fishermen recovered from the sea off Co Clare at lunchtime.

A body has been found in the search for a missing man off the coast of Co Cork.

The coastguard were last night searching for three missing fishermen in separate incidents off Cork and Clare.

A public works’ contractor landed a local authority with an €11m bill after completing a project for which the tender price was just over €6m.

JOHN KENNEDY is back on a familiar journey. During the three years that spanned his spell as Clare senior football manager earlier this decade, Kennedy was well-accustomed to the trip from his north Kerry home to the west coast of the Banner County.

CLARE County Council’s decision to refuse planning permission to a proposed €10 million wind farm in west Clare “brings into question the council’s commitment to its own Wind Energy Strategy”.

CHAMPIONS Doonbeg recorded a Group One win over Ennistymon in the Clare SFC at Quilty on Saturday ( 3-9 to 1-7).

THE developers of a proposed €10 million wind farm in west Clare have appealed Clare Co Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for the development.

A LOCAL authority yesterday refused planning permission for a contentious 400ft high wind farm due to its likely impact on a protected and rare bird, the Hen Harrier.

A County Clare resident was today charged with the murder of a security guard who died following a stabbing in Dublin, in 2009.

SEVEN months after a cargo ship lost seven containers overboard in a storm off the Waterford coast, part of the load continues to be washed up 300 kilometres away on several beaches in Clare.

MUNSTER SFC (Quarter-Final): Waterford v Clare (tomorrow, Dungarvan, 3pm)

WHEN Kilmurry-Ibrickane chairman Gerald Talty began preparing the club’s blueprint for the 2008 season, he felt there was a need to head in a new direction.

EARLY season training with a twist. Enda Coughlan has grown accustomed to the hard slog during the months of February and March in recent years, trying to calibrate his body for the rigours of the football season ahead.

An elderly man has died following a fire at his home in Co. Clare.