Peter Barley, organist at Limerick’s 12th century St Mary’s Cathedral, was jazzing up his usual routine over the weekend as he led more than 120 youths in Benjamin Britten’s children’s opera, Noye’s Fludde.

A serial sex abuser who preyed on boys at a summer school building even after being convicted was not employed there as a caretaker, one of its directors has claimed.

LIMERICK leaving cert student Patrick Kirby’s new pink streak hair style cut a dash. But it broke school rules and as a result he is sitting his exam in isolation at Ard Scoil Mhuire in Bruff.

FOUR people, including a girl aged four and a mother of six young children, have been given a second chance at life due to organs they have received from a Co Limerick Leaving Certificate student.