Thirty-eight patients were on trolleys during one inspection at University Hospital Limerick’s Emergency Department. The agreed safety cap is 29.

THE flying skills of a former airline pilot saved his life when he managed to put his tiny homemade plane down in a field near Limerick after it suffered engine failure.

THUGS who failed to gatecrash a Limerick wedding, later torched the home of a relative of the bride while a baby and childminder slept upstairs.