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The architecture and ambience of these elegant restaurants complement and enhance their first-class food offerings
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Unique insects aren’t in the Burren for the scenery - but add another resplendent layer to an astonishing part of Ireland
The Burren is home to 27 species of moths and butterflies found nowhere else in the country, along with all of our rarest butterflies and half our rarest moths
Pedestrian dies following collision in Kilkee, Co Clare
Garda appeals for witnesses, especially anyone with camera footage from the area
Warning signs ignored at Cliffs of Moher as public engage in ‘risky behaviour’
Sport Ireland report calls for Clare cliff trail to be ‘closed immediately’ to be made safe
Man arrested after gunshots fired at house in Co Clare
No one was injured during the incident on the Acha Bhile estate on the Lahinch Road
Wastewater treatment at 10 cities and large towns fails to meet EU standards, EPA finds
Uisce Éireann ‘must prioritise’ prompt delivery of essential works at locations highlighted by the agency
Appointment of UHL executive to new senior role ‘not a promotion’, Donnelly says
Colette Cowan appointed among integrated healthcare area managers in midwest while facing disciplinary proceedings following Aoife Johnston’s death at University Hospital Limerick
Ireland weather: Orange alert extended to Co Waterford with Met Éireann warnings for seven counties on Saturday
National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management and Met Éireann met on Friday ahead of alerts coming into force
Patrick Nugent: What happened that night, do gardaí know something new and why are they exhuming a body?
Chef William Ryan was acquitted in 1985 of Mr Nugent’s manslaughter and dangerous driving causing death
Patrick Nugent death: Gardaí interviewing guests and staff at Bunratty party 40 years ago
The cold case investigation involves the ‘sensitive operation’ of exhuming Patrick Nugent’s remains from his grave on Tuesday
Remains of Co Clare man killed in 1984 to be exhumed
Patrick Nugent was aged 23 when he died while working at a wedding anniversary party in Bunratty Castle
Clare medical student returns home to death threats after a summer dodging Russian drones and glide bombs in Ukraine
Student befriended 20-year-old Dubliner Alex Ryzhuk who was fighting with the Ukrainians and is now presumed dead
What will €165,000 buy in France, the US, Croatia, Norway and Co Clare?
One price, home and away: A cut-stone house on the Cotes-d-Armor, hideaway cabins and more
Intel’s research and development facility at Shannon to close next year
Base for those currently working in Co Clare operation to be moved to Leixlip or abroad but no additional redundancies expected
Lahinch Golf Club’s €6m redevelopment in full swing amid healthy finances
Club believes it important to enhance its clubhouse experience to that of a world top 50 golf course
Ireland’s refugee hotels: ‘We have more Ukrainians than Irish people in Ballyvaughan now’
How Irish villages are handling the influx of Ukrainians and the closure of hotels to the public
Great restaurants around Ireland to try for a special occasion
For special occasions, restaurants that are places to savour in themselves
Dublin, Mayo and Clare beaches closed to swimmers due to Storm Lilian water pollution
Restrictions at 20 beaches in Mayo will remain in place for up to six days with further six locations affected in Clare
Edna O’Brien talked about a book-burning of The Country Girls in rural Clare. But did it actually happen?
Plus: Dave Grohl’s Kerry drive in 1994; rhododendron set for ban; and some interesting local government ethics declarations
Trump’s Doonbeg resort raking in the revenue, according to US election filing
Republican candidate declared more than €22m from Co Clare hotel and golf links
Sixty years ago, the clerics denounced Edna O’Brien. On Saturday she was welcomed home
A flotilla of lake boats carried mourners to Holy Island, where the ‘brilliant, wild, soaring and indomitable’ Irish writer was laid to rest
Aer Lingus to close Shannon cargo facility
IAG Cargo set to begin consultation with affected staff in the coming weeks
Infighting and division in Doolin Coast Guard prompts husband of Caitríona Lucas to set up independent rescue service
The current Coast Guard unit does not have enough experienced members to operate a climbing team, a critical part of the rescue and recovery service at the Cliffs of Moher
Mammy and Daddy Collison are moving up in the world, to Ailesbury Road to be exact
Plus: the seller of Tathony House in Dublin 8 got his sums right, Caitríona Balfe’s healthy finances, and the rising price of a Brittas Bay mobile home
Seven great classic restaurants to visit around Ireland
Innovation and attention to detail define these first-class dining establishments
My sister Valerie French Kilroy was our warrior princess. Change the law to protect her children
When her husband was charged and convicted of her murder, his guardianship rights were not affected
‘The best place to see Edna O’Brien was at Mass’: the banned and burned author’s complex relationship with Ireland
‘You have to be dead in Ireland to be a hero. History has shown us that; there are no living martyrs’ - O’Brien’s nephew
Inside the US biomedical behemoth ‘down a boreen in east Clare’
Irish man Kevin O’Reilly is global president of the medical diagnostics company Beckman Coulter
Man who beat up his girlfriend during ‘horrendous’ vodka-fuelled assault escapes jail sentence
Judge Francis Comerford imposed a suspended sentence on Colin Curtis, of Crusheen, Co Clare, at Ennis District Court due to mitigating features in the case
‘I don’t find them to be credible’: Judge dismisses ‘outrageous’ €60,000 injury claims taken by two women
Anne Keenan (66) and Catherine McCarthy (66), both from Ennis, alleged taxi struck van during 2016 trip to Heuston Station in Dublin
Irish author Edna O’Brien has died aged 93
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘fearless teller of truths’ who died peacefully on Saturday after long illness
Body recovered from sea off Co Clare confirmed to be boy who went missing at Cliffs of Moher
Body seen in water by occupants of pleasure craft at about 10am
Drones deployed by Coast Guard to help in search for 12-year-old boy who fell at Cliffs of Moher
Boy became separated from his family on Tuesday and is believed to have fallen from cliffs
Cliffs of Moher search for boy (12) continues
The operation is due to resume from around 11am, the Irish Coast Guard confirmed
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