*Graves were firebombed in Drumcliffe as part of the ongoing feud. AN INCREASING GARDA PRESENCE is visible in the county town with rising tensions as part of an ongoing serious dispute between families prompting “deep concern with the escalation of a turf war”.
FARMERS IN EAST CLARE are going to sleep with shotguns “loaded under the bed at night” ready to take the law into their own hands with one representative fearing a repeat of the Padraig Nally case while an Ennis superintendent has voiced his opposition to arming Gardaí.
*Concerns have been voiced on the rising violence in Cloughleigh. NO INJURIES have been reported in an incident which saw a firearm discharged in Ennis on Wednesday evening.
*Rescue 116 had been involved in the Ennis search. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TWO BODIES have been recovered the water in different parts of Co Clare today.
*Cllr Donna McGettigan & Sergeant Seamus Mulligan have walked Shannon Town Park in recent weeks. Photograph: Joe Buckley HOMEOWNERS in Shannon were “scared out of their wits” when flower pots were thrown through their windows by “people stoned out of their minds,” a local representative has said.
A CLARE WOMAN sexually abused by her uncle ‘numerous times’ has told a court that her cousins confronted her brothers in social settings “where they had accused me of compromising the family name through my lies”.
YOUTHS aimed fireworks in the direction of motorists on the outskirts of Ennis with one driver expressing alarm with the conduct.
ONE MAN has died following a two vehicle collision in Clooney on Thursday afternoon.
*Photograph: John Mangan GARDAÍ in Shannon uncovered drugs worth a combined €32,000 when searching two properties in the town on Friday.
*Supporters on the field following Sunday’s Clare SFC final. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A 49 year old Ennistymon GAA supporter who allegedly released a flare at the Clare SFC final on Sunday told a Garda “I would do it again”, a court has heard.
