Former Labour TD, Michael McNamara told the district court that he was “utterly and completely shocked” when pepper-sprayed by a Garda outside his home in December 2016.

A judge has said the State agency responsible for wildlife is not doing enough to kill sufficient numbers of deer resulting in motorists facing the danger of the animals landing on their car bonnets.

When Ford launched the new Fiesta in 1976, it signalled the company’s entry into the burgeoning ‘baby car’ or ‘supermini’ market.

An elderly woman is recovering in hospital after she was rescued from her burning home in Co Clare yesterday.

A 60-year-old man has been described as carrying out despicable thefts around the country — particularly one where he stole €1,000 from a 79-year-old woman in Bantry who acted as a Good Samaritan and took pity on him.

An ex-businessman who, with others, burned a garda’s private car after she seized a vehicle for having no insurance, has been spared jail despite an appeal by prosecutors.

Fiann Ó Nualláin describes the heroic work of Seedsavers in Co Clare who are saving our native flora and fauna. 

Paramedics delivered a baby within 10 minutes of arriving at the scene of a call out this week — 50 kilometres from the nearest hospital.

A quad bike accident cost an eight-year-old boy his life following a collision 500m from his home.

Dan Martin made a brave but ultimately futile bid for a second ever Tour de France stage win yesterday, the Irishman finishing runner-up to Rafal Majka (Tinkoff Saxo) on a gruelling day in the Pyrenees.

Two All-Ireland titles and multiple All Star awards have secured Eoin Kelly’s place in Tipperary hurling folklore. Now he is slowly growing accustomed to life as a former inter-county hurler, but the memories of the glory days in blue and gold are as fresh as ever.

Limerick’s reputation as a violent city is ill-deserved, the most senior circuit court judge said yesterday.

Galway’s Loughrea GAA club were crowned winners of the 15th annual All-Ireland GAA Golf Challenge at Waterford Castle Golf Club.

A teenager and a man in his 40s died in separate road accidents in Limerick and Tipperary in the past 48 hours.

Gardai in Co Clare are investigating a serious two-vehicle collision on the Scarriff to Ennis Road this evening.

A tragedy was narrowly averted last night when 35 people were rescued from Lough Derg after boat crews taking part in an international rowing event got into difficulty.

A search and rescue operaton was launched on Lough Derg this evening after rowers taking part in an international regatta encountered bad weather.

Dozens of firefighters from four different stations were last night battling to save homes and forestry threatened by one of the largest gorse fires in Co Clare for several years.

An investigation is underway into an arson attack at an garda station in Co Clare.

The death has taken place in Bordeaux of the only local ever to become the Rose of Tralee.

Redundancy costs of €1.6m at a timber processing firm contributed to losses at a Co Clare company totalling €3.4m in 2011.

The Irish Seed Savers has just opened a state of the art seed bank on their 20-acre site in Scarriff, Co 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.

LABOUR’S first TD elected in Clare in 19 years said “a huge canvass” was the main reason behind his surprise win.

Fifty jobs are to go in Co Clare, it was announced today.

GARDAÍ were last night attempting to confirm the identities of two young eastern European men, understood to be from Moldova, who were killed in an horrific high-speed crash south of Cork city.

A GARDA was treated in hospital for smoke inhalation after he kicked down the door of a patient’s room at a nursing home in Co Clare where a fire alarm had been activated in the early hours of yesterday morning.

SOURCES in Coillte have predicted the value of forest residue could be boosted to €65 per tonne by the Government’s support price structure for bio-energy.

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

Thousands of homes were facing water shortages again today as local authorities continued to ration supplies in the wake of the big freeze.

PAUL HEALION (Ireland National Team) put down an important marker along the road to London 2012 by beating some of the world’s top sprinters for the stage victory when the FBD Insurance Rás arrived in Castlebar yesterday.

NICHOLAS WALKER (Australia Cinelli-DownUnder) was the surprise stage winner and Simon Richardson (Britain Rapha Condor) took the race-leader’s yellow jersey, but it was young Sam Bennett (Tipperary Dan Morrissey) who turned in the performance of the day to finish sixth in the uphill sprint when the FBD Insurance Rás arrived in Killorglin last evening.

Ireland has today won nine medals in the Alpine Skiing category at the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Boise, Idaho, US.

The Clare senior hurling manager has played down claims that Davy Fitzgerald's inter-county career is over.

The 2008 Waterford Crystal Cup gets underway in earnest over the next two Sundays but the opening game of tournament took place last night at Carrick Beg where Waterford grabbed a morale-boosting win.

THE Gala retail group is to set up 40 new shops and create 500 jobs involving an investment of €48 million over the next 12 months.

A 24-year-old woman has died in a fire at a house in Scarriff, Co Clare.

ONE of Limerick’s most famous sons and celebrated broadcaster, Terry Wogan, described the occasion as “one of the proudest moments” of his life.

RTÉ analyst and former Meath footballer Colm O’Rourke has apologised to Tyrone’s Allstar attacker Brian Dooher for remarks he made four months ago.