A hospice in the Mid-West is bucking the trend to ensure palliative care patients do not face the trauma of dying in overcrowded acute hospitals.

Up to 100 charity and voluntary organisations are bracing themselves for a €60m hit after confirmation that the JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am will not take place in 2015.

A charitable foundation set up by businessman JP McManus has donated more than €33 million to causes in Ireland and abroad over the past six years.

The most lavish summer party of the year has been organised to honour a sporting hero who died when taking on his last great challenge.

BILLIONAIRE gambler JP McManus is funding a clean-up of a huge boarded-up area of Limerick city which has fallen victim to the economic collapse.

TRIBUTES have been paid to the late Louis Creaven, who as chairman of the Mid-Western Hospitals Development Trust, led many health initiatives in the region.

JP MCMANUS donated more than €10.5 million last year to 143 charities, new figures show.

LIMERICK’S mayor yesterday called on a London catering company, which has the contract for the JP McManus Invitation Golf Pro-Am banquet at Adare Manor, to hire out-of-work Irish chefs.

MORE than 170 children from three Limerick primary schools teamed up with the Irish Chamber Orchestra at the Holy Family parish church in Southill as a unique music programme in the city hit all the right notes.