PARENTS’ representatives have said they believe State systems have failed if the threat of jail is held over parents who do not send their children to school.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions yesterday agreed to adjourn a tax charge against a Limerick TD until after he retires from the Dáil.

MYSTERY last night surrounded the whereabouts of a heavily pregnant prisoner who was rushed to the Mid-West Regional Maternity Hospital from Limerick prison with labour pains, but who left without being examined.

TRAVELLERS’ rights campaigners have called for the urgent publication of an overdue education strategy aimed at encouraging children to stay in school.

A GROUP of farmers have raised concerns about the recent spillage of 50,000 litres of caustic soda at the Aughinish Alumina plant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).