Gardaí were today investigating reports a well-known Limerick figure had been shot in the face with a shotgun.

SO Alderman Máirín Quill is the latest public figure to join the parent-bashing brigade (Irish Examiner, January 29).

The Lord Mayor of London City, Alderman Robert Finch, said today that Ireland has a major opportunity to shape global trade during its presidency of the EU.

THE Farmers Journal carried a report in its edition of July 26 last which it claimed to be an analysis of payments to councillors.

AROUND a dozen flights in and out of Cork Airport were affected by yesterday afternoon’s hour-long meeting of Aer Rianta staff.

CRIME gangs in Limerick battling each other to gain control of the drugs trade in the mid-west region are among the most organised and well armed criminals in the country.

A jury has retired to consider a verdict in the trial of a 21-year-old Limerick man accused of stabbing a man to death in a fight outside a pub in the Southill area of the city in June 1999.

A Limerick solicitor advised a man accused of murder to answer "I can't remember" to questions put to him by gardai investigating a fatal stabbing, a jury has heard.

The Waterford Corporation is taking steps to close their multi million pound bank account with the Bank of Ireland.