Gardaí are investigating the cause of a serious fire at a business premises in Ennis after an earlier incident had been successfully dealt with by Gardaí.
A new Community Cardiac First Responder (CFR) Group has been established in Kilkee comprising volunteers who are trained to attend certain types of emergency calls in the area where they live or work.
Traffic was abruptly brought to a stop on the M7 motorway in Co Tipperary this afternoon after a van and trailer jack-knifed and crashed out of control.
There was a significant increase in the number of calls handled by Ireland’s 999/112 emergency call centres last year with almost two thirds not being patched through to frontline services because they were ‘filtered’ by operators.