THE mother of former garda Daniel Hickey spoke in court yesterday of how the family have always been proud of her son, who is the second of five children.

NURSES at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick yesterday staged a third walkout over what they claimed were dangerously overcrowded conditions in the emergency department (ED) as a union leader insisted they were not for turning on the issue.

MANAGEMENT at Limerick City Council are determined to face down moves by elected council members who want to block the provision of a key bus lane into the city centre.

TWO gardaí were hospitalised yesterday when their patrol car was reportedly rammed during a high-speed pursuit on the outskirts of Limerick.

Gardaí in Limerick have mounted raids on around 20 houses on the south side of the city this morning as part of an investigation into unspecified criminal activity.

A TIPPERARY hospital which the Health Service Executive plans to downgrade is providing a vital service to Limerick patients with a life threatening blood disorder.

REGIONAL Garda firearm squads are to be set up despite the reservations of lower and middle-ranking gardaí.

ONE of the country’s busiest cancer units is to plead for the chance to stay open despite not being named as one of the eight big cancer centres where all patients must be treated within two years.

A man has died following a single-car collision in Kilcornan, Co Limerick, in the early hours of this morning.

Before the introduction of random breath testing last summer, the Garda Síochána could not stop and breathalyse a driver without cause to suspect that the person’s driving was impaired.

Eighteen people gathered in a mountain hostel in eastern Spain for a birthday party died in their sleep from an apparent gas leak, officials said today.

A VAT of cholesterol-laden meat fat helped save the life of a worker in Co Limerick.