Birthday's just aren't the same in times of Covid-19, but emergency services personnel in Ennis helped make sure one 21-year old's special day was a memorable one.

Routine outpatient appointments and majority of elective procedures cancelled at University Hospital Limerick and Ennis Hospital

With greater demand for upmarket homes, we see what's on offer around the province

On one of the most wretched days in the history of the championship Limerick produced one of the finest displays in the history of the championship

Under the Climate Bill, councils are required to produce local plans to combat emissions — but they are too small to make such a significant impact on their own, John FitzGerald has warned.

When asked why he sped off, the man replied that he "just wanted to get home to Limerick".

The alert will come into effect in the early hours of Thursday morning and last until 6am on Friday.

The ten separate burglaries took place at petrol stations, post offices and shops around the province over the last number of months.

The defendant claimed that when the "evil entity" had possessed his then-girlfriend it could "make objects disappear" and "send text messages in Latin".

A 25-year-old college student imported over €10,000 of MDMA through the post after watching a tutorial on YouTube on how to get illegal drugs through the ‘darkweb’, a court has heard.

US President Donald Trump has recorded $63. 6 million (€54. 6m) in losses on his Scottish and Irish golf courses. The losses were revealed in 15 years of Donald Trump's tax returns seen by the New York Times. Trump Golf Resort in Doonbeg Co.

As part of an ongoing operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs in the county, Gardaí from the Divisional Drugs Unit, assisted by the Armed Support Unit, executed a search warrant at a house in the Spancilhill area shortly before midnight last night.

More than €2m worth of cars were seized by officers from the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) in Clare and Tipperary this morning.

A status yellow wind warning is in place for counties Cork, Kerry, and Clare. Very windy conditions are expected in parts of Munster this morning and afternoon.

A man, aged in his 20s, has been arrested in Co. Clare in relation to a robbery that took place in Limerick on August 27.

2,100 hectares currently planted with spruce and pine forests will be restored with re-wetted bog and replanted with native woodlands.

The Offaly and Birr star played when the centre-forward's job was to flake.

A criminal case relating to alleged online abuse of Clare GAA secretary Pat Fitzgerald and other county officials is at an advanced stage.

Gerry Mahon and Eamon O’Neill met in the Zest coffee shop in Limerick on February 6 last.

Gusts of up to 100kmh are expected in some western coastal counties as well as parts of the midlands and east today.

Cork minor camogie manager Jerry Wallace has lodged an appeal to the Camogie Association against the decision to cancel this year’s All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship.

If you are going to holiday in Ireland, you could hardly do better than Munster.

Champions Dublin have been pitted with Waterford and Donegal in the round-robin phase of the revised 2020 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship.

Three people were rescued from a sinking boat off Co Clare late last night by an RNLI lifeboat crew.

House prices have fallen by 2.9% so far this year but held remarkably steady during the peak months of the coronavirus crisis, a new report has revealed.

Derek McGrath claims there is “populist propaganda” driving the club versus county debate.

This extract from the John Doyle biography — Doyle, The Greatest Hurling Story Ever Told by John Harrington — covers the 1951 Munster final between Tipperary and Cork, regarded as one of the greatest ever games.

Davy Fitzgerald has labelled posters on a Clare GAA fans web page as “cowards” for calling him a traitor in recent days.

It's clear that the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael attempted to improve the gender balance of their Seanad showing, with Fianna Fáil electing three women, and Fine Gael electing four.

The number of new cases of Covid-19 and deaths associated with the virus continues to fall here .

Dublin is the worst-hit county by Covid-19, new figures show.

Half of wet wipes found in a study of Irish waters were branded as 'flushable' but actually contained microplastic pollutants.

Six people have been arrested in the latest crackdown on organised crime in Limerick and surrounding areas.

Some 15 counties reported no new cases of the coronavirus in the week ending June 12 — with a further 10, including Cork, reporting fewer than five cases.

Dublin is the only county that had more than 10 new cases last week.

Farmers have warned of a 50% reduction in straw supply, due to drought.

Nine people have been arrested and more than 60 searches carried out in a garda operation.

As the programme for government negotiations comes to an end, all three parties will be designated a number of Taoiseach's nominees to the Seanad.

A weather advisory has been issued for the whole country ahead of expected further thunder and lightning storms.

Two people arrested in connection with a €440,000 drug seizure are due in court this afternoon.

There were fewer than 20 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Munster last week.

Some of the counties worst affected economically by Covid-19 are among the winners of a new tranche of tourism project funding.

Robert Hume highlights a case of blatant sexism one hundred years ago.

The live streaming of Limerick county championship fixtures later this year will be behind a paywall.

Colette Cowan, head of the UL Hospitals Group, said she expects there will be a “surge” of cases of Covid-19, flu and respiratory related illnesses at UHL over winter.

What happens the county player whose club is knocked out in the first round of the championship?

Mike Quirke and Anthony Daly are celebrating the GAA's return to play plan, but say there are many questions to answer.

Farmland market news

Just eight prosecutions have been taken in the last decade for illegal burning of vegetation in Munster, it has emerged, as emergency services fought several wildfires this weekend, including one close to an explosives plant.

Two young boys have been rescued off the Clare coast after they were reported to be adrift in a small inflatable dinghy.