STUDENTS were fingerprinted yesterday as a Limerick secondary school introduced its own database in a hi-tech bid to monitor absenteeism.

SEVEN secondary school pupils are preparing for a trip of a lifetime to Antarctica next month to learn about the effects of climate change.

BREEDING came to the fore in the Irish Horse Board-sponsored Limerick Lady championship at the Limerick Show.

LAST December during EU talks, Austria, Italy, Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Malta united to oppose the use of European taxpayers’ money for destructive human embryonic research. To our eternal shame, our Government refused to join them.

A group of children at the centre of a Limerick school bus row today hired a private vehicle to protest outside the Dáil.

The school bus row has reached the highest pitch yet after more than 100 angry parents and students protested at today's DeValera Commemoration in Co Clare.

PARENTS plan to picket the constituency office of Minister of State Dr Tim O’Malley in Limerick today in protest at the lack of adequate school transport facilities for their children.

IOLANDA RYAN will have to drive 120 miles each week to get her son Diarmuid to and from school unless a bus seat is provided for him. And she's not alone.

BRIAN CURTIN had his first brush with public controversy when in 2002 he judged the case of a West Cork farmer who sexually abused three young girls.