A €12m development of Foynes Port, announced yesterday, will have to be put on hold for more than two years while the port authority awaits the necessary foreshore licence from a government department.

A small plot of strategic land in Foynes port which sold for about €13m at the height of the Celtic Tiger is now being sold off for less than €2m.

Reigning champions Cork relinquished their grip on the McGrath Cup as they fell to a surprise 2-9 to 1-9 defeat at home to Tipperary this afternoon.

Limerick County Council has employed two environmental pollution firms to assist with the clean-up operation along the River Deel.

COMMERCIAL sea plane flights between Dublin and the mid-west were given official approval yesterday.

SHANNON Foynes Port Company – which manages Foynes and Limerick ports – turned a small profit for 2009.

There was a busy schedule of GAA senior inter-county football and hurling matches around the country today, with the new experimental rules providing more talking points and the compulsory helmets rule in hurling coming into force for the first time.

THE state has dropped a dangerous driving causing death charge against a Kerryman who drove into an accident scene, killing a garda and a firefighter.

A JURY in the trial of a Kerryman charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of a garda and a firefighter were last night discharged at Limerick Circuit Court after they could not agree on a verdict following three weeks of evidence.

A FIRE chief broke down in the witness box at Limerick Circuit Court when he recalled the moment he realised he would have to break the news of the death of a fellow firefighter and a garda to their families.

A FIREFIGHTER broke down in court as he spoke about a horrific crash that resulted in the deaths of a garda and a firefighter.

AFTER a Kerry-registered Audi crashed into an accident scene killing a garda and a firefighter, one person emerged from the passenger side of the vehicle saying: “Sorry about that lads,” Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.

A FORMER mayor of Limerick has been nominated by the Transport Minister Noel Dempsey to the board of Shannon Foynes Port Company.

A LEADING Progressive Democrats activist in Limerick is to be the new chairperson of the troubled Foynes Port Company.

AFTER a court case which is reputed to have cost Shannon Foynes Port Company several million euro to settle, the body has suffered another financial blow with the loss of a shipping customer at Foynes.

HOLLYWOOD screen legend Maureen O’Hara will attend this weekend’s re-enactment of the first commercial transatlantic flight to Ireland.

A TEENAGE driver involved in a road accident, in which two members of the emergency services lost their lives, was reportedly over the drink driving limit.

WORK will begin today to complete an aviation landmark in the port village of Foynes.

FOYNES yesterday turned back the clock more than 60 years to spectacular effect.

BOSTON Harbour had its Tea Party and now Foynes port in Co Limerick has just had its Banana Day.

IT’S boom-time for shipping in the Shannon Estuary, according to Shannon Foynes Port Company.

MASSIVE turbines and generators weighing almost 500 tonnes were shipped into Foynes yesterday for the new electricity power generating station being built by Aughinish Alumina at the nearby Aughinish Island.

A clean-up operation is continuing in Foynes Harbour in Limerick after a vessel carrying 11,000 litres of oil capsized.