A mother who had been recovering from breast cancer yesterday relived, along with her husband and their four young children, a night of terror when an armed gang burst into their rural home in Co Limerick.

Former associates will link three men, two from Dublin, to aggravated burglaries in Co Limerick during which neighbouring families were allegedly overpowered by an armed gang, a jury heard yesterday.

Two men were sentenced to life in prison today after being found guilty of murdering a man at a house party that descended into violence.

DNA on a screwdriver found at the scene of a fatal stabbing matched the deceased and one of the two men accused of his murder, a trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A woman has told a murder trial that she tried to intervene while her boyfriend was being stabbed to death by two men.

Two Limerick men have gone on trial accused of murdering a 26-year-old man at a house party two years ago.

Fifty years ago Irish jockey Frankie Shortt sat aboard Aussie at the start of the Aintree Grand National. Little could have prepared him for the next eight minutes and one of the most amazing runnings of the world’s most famous steeplechase.

After a number of valuable sulky race horses perished in a stable fire, a major drug dealer decided to exact revenge on the local community in East Limerick.

Gardaí are investigating a fatal road traffic collision at Ballinaclough, Pallasgreen, Co. Limerick.

Latest: The three-year old boy killed today in crash outside Oola, Co Limerick, has been named locally and by neighbours as Alex James Velocci.

It was Cork, first and foremost, that set Nyle Wolfe on his international singing career.

A truck driver had a lucky escape after his long vehicle jackknifed across the N24 Limerick Waterford Road this morning.

Three men appeared yesterday at Kilmallock District Court charged in relation to armed raids and the false imprisonment of residents at three homes in Co Limerick almost four years ago.

A father and son have appeared in court today charged in connection with a violent burglary and false imprisonment of three elderly siblings, and a separate aggravated robbery on a family of six.

James Heffernan has a formidable election team at his home base, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

A man charged with murdering another man in a “frenzied” knife attempted to flee Limerick District court yesterday morning.

Stop the presses! We have breaking moos from Limerick.

Gardaí have brought two men before a special court sitting in Limerick charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man.

Gardaí believe a fatal stabbing in Pallasgreen, Co Limerick, on Thursday night happened during a drink-fuelled row at a house party.

The family of a rising sports star are praying he will make a full recovery after sustaining serious injuries in a car crash last night.

Hopes of making President Michael D Higgins a Freeman of Limerick City were plunged into further controversy yesterday.

Last Thursday night Mary Harty organised hot whiskeys for a group who gathered at her home near Pallasgreen, Co Limerick, for an ice bucket fundraiser for motor neurone disease.

A violent Dublin gang suspected of a series of robberies have used the train to make their getaway.

A violent Dublin-based gang has avoided Garda roadblocks by taking trains as getaway transport after a series of aggravated burglaries in Co Limerick.

A father-of-four whose family were threatened at gunpoint by four masked men has described the lack of Garda resources in parts of rural Co Limerick as "appalling".

The Ballyfermot/Tipperary gang, one of the most dangerous in the country, struck the Garvey home in Pallasgreen, Co Limerick on April 16, 2012.

Gardaí have discovered that a violent criminal gang, whose leaders are based in Ballyfermot, Dublin and Tipperary, hold detailed intelligence data on business people living in counties Cork, Tipperary and Limerick identified as potential burglary/tiger kidnap targets.

A pensioner left for dead after been attacked by burglars armed with knives and a sword, has called on the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal the sentence imposed of one of the criminal gang, after he walked free from court.

Two men involved in an armed raid on a family’s home in Co Limerick have been given jail sentences of seven and five years at Limerick Circuit Court.

A young man who tragically lost his life in a road accident was attended to by his uncle who works in the emergency services.

A man who through financial difficulties was at the beck and call of a violent gang, drove armed and masked men on a raid during which they subjected two elderly sisters and their bachelor brother to what was described as a barbaric attack at their isolated rural home, a court heard.

More than 3,000 people gathered on a Co Limerick parish hillside yesterday for the biggest re-enactment of the death of Christ ever performed in this country.

A Limerick man is a quarter of a million euro richer.

A 25-year-old mother of one who had been married just four months has passed away from a rare tongue cancer.

A family of three boys were left shattered and heartbroken after their youngest son, aged just 4, was killed yesterday in a road crash.

The family of a murdered man were denied an expected €76,000 pension payment as the man’s boss had failed to pay employee’s pension contributions.

Two semi-finals in the GMIT-hosted Fitzgibbon Cup today, both at the Carnmore in Galway, and two interesting pairings they are.

Finuge (Kerry) 2-9 Pallasgreen (Limerick) 1-9