I just love to take short breaks in Ireland. This time it was west Clare. There’s much to be excited about.

The Cork Summer Show returns once more and, as always, carries a huge programme of food-related events including a food ‘market’ featuring over 60 indoor and outdoor stalls and with plenty of areas for some casual picnicking on purchased fare while checking out some of the live entertainment on throughout the weekend.

A family festival in Limerick at Easter depicted a teenage girl slitting her wrists, leaving children in tears.

Culture Night takes place today, with a feast of free offerings all over the country. Ellie O’Byrne selects some of the highlights

When Gerry Andrew’s photographs of the Milk Market in Limerick were exhibited in the city in 2014, the response was hugely positive. 

Little drummer boy Michael Magci is already generating big music vibes in Limerick.

Given its location and logistical challenges, Tournafulla doesn’t appear naturally conducive to setting up a business, but two local entrepreneurs are bucking that trend in very different ways.

A man who is alleged to have received a death threat from a person described as “head” of Limerick’s notorious McCarthy Dundon gang did not wish to proceed with a complaint he made to gardaí, a court has heard.

How would you spend a day in Limerick? We asked our readers to share their favourite hidden gems in the Treaty city and we’ve included the best in this list.

In this week’s column Kehlan looks at the rise and rise of farmers’ markets and how they are becoming the place to be on your weekend mornings.

Brendan O’Neill felt a sense of peace and wellbeing on a visit to the Treaty city.

St Patrick’s Day, inextricably linked with excessive drinking and anti-social behaviour, is undergoing something of a rebranding. 

In this week’s column we are looking at stereotypes within Ireland and why Limerick City has a bone to pick with Donal McIntyre, writes , Kehlan Kirwan.

President Michael D Higgins yesterday recalled the snugs of the pubs his father ran in his childhood days in Limerick City.

Up to half a million people are expected to flock to thousands of venues nationwide as they open their doors to the public this evening for a free and fun-filled celebration of heritage, culture, arts and music.

Limerick photographer Gerry Andrews tells Richard Fitzpatrick some of the stories behind his incredible pictures from the city’s Milk Market in the 1970s

Riverdance composer Bill Whelan last night cast his eye back on times past to childhood days in his old Limerick neighbourhood.

A disused food factory site is to become an attractive public market area in the centre of Tralee, Co Kerry.

A contemporary Limerick city 124-bed hotel comes for sale as the city enjoys its period as Irish City of Culture — and as trending.ie figures show Limerick hotel occupancy up 7%.

The Menu is glad to see the poor benighted banks being afforded some well-deserved TLC with a clutch of their very own holidays arriving in quick succession and he shall pass the next in Lovely Limerick, enjoying the exceedingly family-friendly Riverfest (May 2-5).

The Easter bunny has never been busier.Pól Ó Conghaile picks some of the best egg hunts around the country

The gurgling Shannon, raucous terrace cheers from Thomond Park, rugby banter in Reddan’s pub, a cheery Saturday morning at the Milk Market, and the pealing bells from The Fathers spire loft on a Sunday morning, all form some of the ingredients of a unique study of everyday life in Limerick.

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Location: Limerick

BACK in the late 1990s Nick Cave took to the stage of Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre.

Having already rejected Rio, San Paulo and Orlando, a five member selection party were guests of a civic and tourism leaders in Limerick last night as the city makes a bid to host the 2018 Federation Gay Games (FGG).

Leading Irish designer Joanne Hynes was among the top designers who showcased their work at a unique gathering of up-and-coming designers in Limerick last night.

Designer clothes worth tens of thousands of euro are to be destroyed after a court ruled a retailer breached the Trademark Act by selling the clothes without permission from the manufacturer.

There is “no recession in Irish, quality food”, according to John McKenna, author of the national food bible, The Irish Food Guide.

A photographic exhibition has unexpectedly revealed an image of a Limerick boy whose murder was to set in train the vicious feud which caused death and bloodshed in the city for nearly 20 years.

BEST view of Limerick City? From The Strand hotel’s elevator. Launching from a sleekly-styled lobby, its glass walls zoom upwards to a panorama over Sarsfield Bridge, the mighty River Shannon and Limerick Castle.

A group of paranormal investigators have spent a night in Limerick’s Milk Market to follow up reports of strange, dark happenings at the 200-year-old city centre gathering place.

Costing north of €500, daytrips to Lapland aren’t exactly a holiday for the masses. Not to worry, writes Pól Ó Conghaile, there are lots of winter wonderlands right here at home

IF LIMERICK is a tale of two cities, its Radisson Blu is a tale of two hotels.

THE Aviva Stadium and more than 30 other architectural wonders have been toppled by a tent-like structure which shelters Limerick’s historic Milk Market.

Pól Ó Conghaile visits a manor with the X-Factor and a ‘gourmet summer’ to savour

MINISTER of State for Trade and Development Jan O’Sullivan yesterday unveiled details of events to be held in Limerick to mark Africa Day.

ROYAL wedding watchers will get to see the British royal wedding on a big screen being erected in Limerick for the occasion.

Four men today received sentences totalling 31-and-a-half years for offences including violent disorder and demanding money with menaces, in the largest tranche of Limerick gangland cases to come before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.

A Limerick man, who was arrested along with seven other men following a Garda investigation into extortion, has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to violent disorder.

A Limerick man, who was arrested along with seven other men following a Garda investigation into extortion, has pleaded guilty to violent disorder before the Special Criminal Court.

THE businessman who spearheaded the €2.5 million re-development of Limerick’s famed Milk Market has accused the city council of undermining the retail project – by allowing nearby street traders to compete at lower charges.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan should meet with energy company Siemens to discuss its offer to lend the state money to install domestic water meters, the Environment Minister has said.

Eight Limerick men facing a variety of charges including violent disorder, making threats to kill and demanding money with menaces will stand trial together in March next year.

Eight Limerick men arrested as part of an investigation into extortion appeared briefly at the non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

EIGHT Limerick men are to face charges including extortion and threats to kill at the non-jury Special Criminal Court.

A HIGH-PROFILE Limerick figure last night sparked political outrage after he appeared on a court prison video link with his face partially masked by a bandana mask and making a finger gestures to the camera.

LIMERICK’S famous Milk Market, which draws huge crowds every Saturday morning, is about to enter a new era combining the old with the new.