They came with roses to say farewell to a young woman who had bloomed and touched many hearts during her all too short but happy lifetime.

Tom McGlinchey, Ned English and Barry Donnelly have all been nominated for the vacant Limerick senior football manager's position.

THE worst flooding in two decades has destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses and devastated thousands of acres of farmland throughout the country, mostly in the south and west.

BUDGET cutbacks will cause serious damage to the Gaeltacht economy, taking €8 million a year out of the rural west of Ireland, farmers in the area have warned.