*Photograph: Joe Buckley. CRIMINAL ACTIVITY is on the rise in Newmarket-on-Fergus with local residents on edge following a stabbing and the firebombing of a car in separate incidents.
*Martin Downes (36) of Seafield Park Quilty, charged with robbing Carrigaholt postmistress THE four Clare men charged in connection with the robbery of Carrigaholt Post Office last Wednesday afternoon were all further remanded in custody for a two week period. At Ennis District Court, the four men appeared in court via video link from Limerick …
A CLARE woman has broken down in tears in court after saying that her ex-boyfriend has shamed her and humiliated her by posting intimate photos of her on fake social media profile accounts he created. At the Family Law Court in Ennis, the office worker said that “I couldn’t leave the house” after the pictures …
FOUR people have died on roads in Co Clare in 2025, marking no change from the previous year. RSA have published their yearly provisional road traffic collision figures, which reveal that Clare’s total road fatalities in 2025 are four, the same as 2024. Last year, Clare made up 2% of Ireland’s 190 total road deaths, a national increase …
A SIXTEEN YEAR old Ballyea teenager has died following a single-vehicle collision involving a tractor outside Crusheen on Saturday.
CENTENARY commemorations take place this Sunday in Fanore, 100 years on from the first killing of on-duty Garda in Co Clare.
*Photograph: Ruth Griffin EXTRA Gardaí are to be on the beat in Ennis town over the festive period.
*Parteen Basin. UISCE ÉIREANN have failed to honour a long-standing request to address elected members in East Clare to discuss funding shortfalls and plans to extract water from Lough Derg.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley MEMBERS of the Defence Forces tasked to protect a US military aircraft at Shannon Airport drew their weapons briefly in response to an alleged “planned and premeditated” airport incursion by three pro-Palestinian activists, a court has heard.
THREE people have been arrested at Shannon Airport after a vehicle entered an unauthorised area.