A man in his 60’s was airlifted to hospital on Saturday after he was seriously injured in a farm accident in Co Galway, writes Patrick Flynn.

The girl was airlifted from the nearby Kickham’s GAA field to University Hospital Limerick in a critical condition but pronounced dead later in the afternoon.

With 528 patients on trolleys for up to 20 hours awaiting hospital beds, emergency medicine consultants have repeated to HSE chiefs the overcrowding crisis will not be solved without extra doctors, nurses and beds.

A man was killed overnight in a two-car collision in Co Tipperary.

It is rutting season for deer this month. Hillwalkers and strollers in Glendalough Valley have been struck by the piercing sound of sika stags making a shrill triple-whistle sound as they collect their hinds (females) and hold them in a harem while they maintain dominance among their male counterparts during rutting season. A pregnant hind will give birth next June, 33 weeks after ‘unity-day’ in October!

The family of a seriously ill woman, stranded in Bosnia because no intensive care bed could be found for her here, have spoken of their relief at getting her home.

An elderly pedestrian was injured and a motorist narrowly escaped death when a car careered off a street in Limerick yesterday before nose-diving onto a stairway leading to a cellar restaurant.

A book of condolence has been opened at the University of Limerick for a 22-year-old student who collapsed and died on the second last day of her final year at college.