A stunned bride watched as her father collapsed on the dance floor and later died from a heart attack at the height of her weekend wedding celebrations.

It’s quite a few miles from Saint Tropez and the Côte d’Azur but the tiny village of Quin in Co Clare is fast gaining a reputation as the celebrity holiday destination of 2014.

Many parts of the country is bracing itself for further flooding today as yet another Atlantic storm looks set to hit.

Painted in 1434 The Arnolfini Portrait still influences contemporary painters and writers. Peter Murray on a new history of the masterpiece

A receiver has been appointed to one of the largest construction firms in the mid-west, Brian McCarthy Contractors Ltd, that ceased trading last month.

West Clare man Jim Scanlan said it is “devastating” for the village of Kilmihil to be losing its Garda station.

The Department of the Environment has taken the unprecedented move of directing a local authority to reverse a rezoning due to concerns over a roost of rare and protected species of bats.

A local authority county manager is at loggerheads with the vast majority of his elected members over a housing zoning beside an internationally important site for a rare bat.

The rescheduled first session of the two-day Ormond Foxhounds point-to-point took place at Ballingarry in north Co Tipperary on Saturday afternoon, but it was abandoned in the interest of safety after the fourth race, the first division of the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

Gardaí are investigating a possible connection between two arson attacks on a family business.

CONCERNS for a colony of the protected and rare lesser horseshoe bat has resulted in a local authority putting plans for a proposed paintball facility on hold.

A MOVE by Pat Rabbitte, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to grant a prospecting licence for gold and silver to a Dublin-based firm for land in east Clare, has created great local excitement.

THIS spacious, contemporary Co Clare property, at Moyreisk, near Quin village, has been attracting good interest.

GARDAÍ are following a “definite line of inquiry” following a hit and run incident in Clare on Sunday morning which left two men trapped in the wreckage of their car with serious injuries.

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

The family of an Irishman killed in a plane crash in Central Africa will travel there in the coming days.

AN Irish citizen has been killed in a plane crash in central Africa.

Search teams today found the wreckage of a small plane that disappeared over the weekend carrying 11 people including one Irish man, a spokesman for Cameroon’s government said.

THE newly-formed firm of Helen Gallery Auctioneers and Valuers is listing a fine example of a modern one-off in Quin, Co Clare.

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

Householders around the country tonight faced a second evening without fresh running water as reservoirs were ordered to ration supplies.

THEY’VE probably heard all the George Clooney jokes you could mention — but fame by coincidence of name is a fate that Clooney, near Quin in Co Clare will have to put up with.

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.

CROKE PARK yesterday was a marvellous place to be, two hugely entertaining hurling games and a fine football game between Meath and Mayo.

A 45-year-old man has died after being struck by a car in Co Clare in the early hours of this morning.

Two Bronze Age crannogs, burned down two years ago, were today re-opened to the public after being completely rebuilt.

LIMESTONE quoins and plain render give this standard dormer at Moyriesk, Quin, Co Clare, its own look.

PART of Clare’s crannóg site, which has featured on Irish school curriculums for decades, has been destroyed in a fire.

Part of the world-famous Cragganowen heritage site in Co Clare has been destroyed in an overnight fire.