It was 6.55am, June 7, 1996, when Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and Detective Garda Ben O’Sullivan were targeted by an IRA gang as both officers provided an armed escort for a mail delivery van.

A 28-year-old man has died following a road traffic collision in Co Limerick.

An 82-year-old woman has been killed in a road accident in Limerick.

A man in his 20s has been killed in a road crash in Co Limerick.

Up to 500 staff at five hospitals in the University of Limerick Hospital Group have begun industrial action over the continued employment of the group’s chief operations manager on €250,000 per year — more than twice the €116,000 that would be paid to a public servant.

John Thomas McNamara, who was paralysed in a fall at last year’s Cheltenham Festival, was in the intensive care unit of Limerick Regional Hospital last night, having been taken ill the previous day.

A body discovered at a quarry in Co Clare this morning has been identified as that of Adrian Folan.

The decision to call in the services of a coastguard helicopter with thermal imaging equipment paid off during a search for an 80-year-old man in North Cork.

An 18-year-old man has died in a single-vehicle crash in Co Tipperary.

An eight-year old boy who was seriously injured in a quad bike accident in Co Clare has died.

An eight-year old boy has been seriously injured in a quad bike accident in Co Clare.

Gardaí are investigating the discovery of a man's body in Clare.

THE family of a stroke victim who died after a fall from a hospital bed were distraught after their father’s remains were left in a busy ward for more than six hours.

A man has been seriously injured in a car crash in Co Cork.

Gardaí are today investigating a fatal road accident in Co Limerick today.

A teenage girl has been arrested and a woman is in a serious condition in hospital following a stabbing in County Clare.

The body of the mine-worker killed in an underground rockfall on Thursday will be repatriated to his native Philippines this week.

An air ambulance was forced into an emergency landing after its blades got caught in overhead cables as it flew in for a roadside pickup last year, a report into the incident has found.

Children and teenagers needing psychiatric care are being denied admission to mental health facilities while beds lie idle.

Child patients attending emergency departments in hospitals around the country are being forced to share facilities with adult emergency patients.

A father and daughter who are both awaiting kidney transplants have made a heartfelt plea for people to carry a donor card.

A father and daughter who are both waiting for a kidney transplant have made a heartfelt plea for people to give the gift of life and carry a donor card.

A man in his 20s has died after a crash in Co Limerick.

An eighth person is being treated at Limerick Regional Hospital following a chemical spill in Co Clare yesterday.

A man is in hospital after being stabbed in County Clare last night.

New work practices will be needed in the health system to ensure services continue, HSE boss Cathal Magee has warned.

A senior consultant has described plans by the HSE to establish a trust to oversee the operation of six hospitals in the Mid-West as “rampant managerialism” and “guaranteed to fail”.

A elderly man been arrested in connection with the stabbing of another man in Co. Limerick yesterday.

A number of hospitals around the country are experiencing double-digit rates of absebteeism in some units, according to a report in today's Sunday Business Post.

Gardaí are investigating a fatal road crash in East Clare.

The partner of a Limerick man who was shot dead outside his home has denied that she incorrectly identified the man who is now on trial for the murder.

The brother of a Limerick man who was shot dead near his home has told a jury he saw the man accused of his murder standing close to the scene shortly before the shooting.

A POSTMORTEM on the body of a man found in a Clonmel apartment block was expected to reveal he was assaulted before his death.

Motorists have been warned to beware of black ice and gale-force winds over the coming days.

THE family of an in-patient at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick has called for an inquiry into how he was knocked down and killed just a few hundred metres from the facility’s entrance on Monday night.

OVERTIME paid to HSE registrars is still costing over €100 million a year, while 15 hospital doctors around the country earned more than €100,000 in overtime alone last year.

THE mid-west’s largest hospital is €15.2 million over budget so far this year.

Two men have been arrested in Limerick after an incident involving gardaí, and another car, in which gunshots were fired.

A CLARE man had his ear almost severed in an alleged hatchet attack by his brother in Shannon on Wednesday night, a court heard.

A man has died after falling from the cliffs in Kilkee in Co Clare today.

An investigation is underway into a stabbing incident in Limerick last night in which a man and a woman were injured.