A Limerick teenager personally affected by suicide has collected thousands of signatures in a bid to light up the city’s bridges with life-affirming messages — reaching out to anyone thinking of taking their own life.

A serial sex abuser who preyed on boys at a summer school building even after being convicted was not employed there as a caretaker, one of its directors has claimed.

HUNDREDS of teenagers yesterday paid a final poignant tribute to a school friend and teammate murdered near his home in Limerick last Saturday night.

MOURNERS wept openly yesterday when a poignant letter from a mother to her only son, killed in a road accident last Saturday, was read out at his funeral Mass.