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A former occupational therapist who lost her legs as a child in a tragic farming accident has revealed her lingering hopes of tracing the family of an American GI whose blood saved her life more than 70 years ago.

AN appeals mechanism must be put in place for cases where care support is withdrawn from pupils with disabilities, primary teachers demanded yesterday.

ON St Valentine’s Day, this week, a Limerick couple will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their first date.

SECOND-TIME around Valentines’ Day groom John Walsh, 62, admitted yesterday he proposed three times to widow Ann McMahon, 59, before she said “yes”.