A man has been airlifted to hospital after he was injured in an incident in Newmarket on Fergus this afternoon.

The funeral has taken place of Tom Stack who served as Chief Fire Officer (CFO) for Co Clare for over three decades and who is credited with being instrumental in modernising the service.

The Killaloe unit of the Irish Coast Guard was requested to assist in the search for a missing person near Nenagh in Co Tipperary this afternoon.

UL Hospitals Group has introduced a skin temperature monitoring system at University Hospital Limerick in an intensification of efforts to minimise the risk of Covid-19 infection among patients and staff at the region's main acute hospital.

A body has been recovered from the sea in Co Clare this evening.

A community of volunteers from across industry and education in the Mid West have begun producing up to 5,000 face shields per week for nursing home workers and other frontline staff.

A teenage boy has died following a farming accident in Co Clare this morning.

The Mid-West Hospital Campaign group has initiated an appeal to the public for PPE supplies for the county's nursing home facilities.