Gardaí issued an alert to parents in Limerick yesterday following a suspicious approach made to a 14-year-old girl near Annacotty on Tuesday as she returned home from school.

THIEVES have turned their attention to stealing lead, aluminium and copper, according to a commercial security company.

GARDAÍ have renewed their appeal for information about a kidnapping at a post office in Co Limerick in which €100,000 was stolen.