It took two attempts but Kilfenora were crowned 2016 Clare Intermediate Football Champions when they overcame the challenge of Kildysart by three points.

After 60 minutes of a great spectacle, Clare’s IFC finalists will have do it all over again in a fortnights time as the game finished all-square, either side could feel hard done by if they lost this one but neither side could honestly admit they had done enough to lift the trophy.

Kilfenora will take on Kildysart in the final of the Clare Intermediate Football Championship.

An amateur photographer from Newmarket-on-Fergus has put together a montage of wildlife photographs taken around the County.

A man is recovering in hospital after he was rescued from an island in the Shannon Estuary last night.

Cooraclare and Kilmurry Ibrickane represented the County in the Féile na nGael competition in Kerry last weekend with both reaching the knockout stages.

An elderly man had to wait three hours for an ambulance after he suffered a fall despite the National Ambulance Service acknowledging it was an ‘urgent’ call.

Clare TD Michael McNamara has urged the Minister for State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works to make a decision to grant the Minor Coastal Protection Works for Doonbeg, Ballynacally and Kildysart immediately.