Despite a 2,000-strong petition by parishioners, a Limerick priest is to be transferred to another parish.

A teenager who died following a severe asthma attack was laid to rest yesterday — 13 years to the day he was baptised.

GRAPHIC media pictures taken at the scene of the hit-and-run that claimed the lives of two Irish women on a visit to Rome intensified the pain and loss of both families, mourners heard yesterday.