Meet the running mates who are part of a first-of-a-kind initiative which is forging links with people living in direct provision.

An elderly pedestrian was injured and a motorist narrowly escaped death when a car careered off a street in Limerick yesterday before nose-diving onto a stairway leading to a cellar restaurant.

Tears flowed outside a tiny church in rural county Limerick yesterday for the funeral Mass of a “spirited young boy with the world at his feet” who died suddenly while working on his grandfather’s farm.