A collaboration between University of Limerick and UL Hospitals Group has seen the design and capacity created to manufacture 100,000 face visors for HSE front-line staff.

The public health measures will be extended for a further 3 weeks. The measures will now stay in place until Tuesday, May 5.

UL Hospitals Group has launched a recruitment campaign to attract a diverse range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals as part of the immediate response to the Covid-19 public health emergency, and to support the future development of our hospitals.

An Garda Síochána has today launched a major operation to ensure public compliance with the travel restrictions introduced recently as part of COVID-19 public health guidelines.

A rescue operation was mounted off the Co Clare coast this evening after two people in a kayak were reported to be in difficulty.

A motorcyclist is being treated in hospital following a collision near Corofin in Clare this afternoon.

Landowners across Clare are being requested to cease-and-desist all controlled burning immediately in an effort to reduce the demands placed on Emergency Call Operators and the Fire Service during the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency.

Fire crews from two stations are this evening battling a major blaze which swept through a windfarm, forestry and bogland in Co Clare.