The courage needed by Thomas Gilmartin and the others who stood up to corrupt Fianna Fáil politicians was altogether exceptional.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said he regrets the Collins family have given up a life of 24-hour armed Garda protection for relocation outside Ireland.

A former Mayor of Limerick believes the decision made by the family of a murder victim to leave the country was "inevitable".

The mayor of Limerick has described the departure of gangland crime victim Steve Collins and his family from the city, as a “sad day for Irish democracy”.

Hope springs eternal, and at the end of another superb National Coursing Meeting in Clonmel, why not?

THE plug might have been pulled on one of Ballybunion’s famed seaweed bath businesses, but there’s still a chance to take a bracing plunge by the water’s edge and the Ladies’ Strand.

DANIEL TREACY’S father, Phil, who owns the family bread business, is protected by armed gardaí when he goes on his bread rounds since the Kieran Keane trial in which another of his sons, Owen, was the key state witness.

STEVE COLLINS yesterday spoke of the ongoing campaign of intimidation being waged against him and his family by the gang who were behind the murder of his son Roy.

THE bravery of Limerick businessman Steve Collins and his family in standing up to the notorious McCarthy-Dundon gang was last night saluted by the mayor of Limerick at a reception in Mr Collins’s honour.

THOUSANDS of people took part in yesterday’s protest march against gangland violence in Limerick.

THE murder of Limerick businessman Roy Collins was yesterday condemned by the Bishop of Limerick, Dr Donal Murray, as “utter madness” which strikes at all of us.

THE evidence of more than 30 witnesses to the hit-and-run deaths of two Irish tourists in Rome will be admitted.

Following this evening’s verdict, solicitor Eugene O’Kelly made a statement on behalf of the Collins family.

THE organisers of the annual Michael Collins commemoration have appealed to souvenir hunters not to steal signposts directing them to the ambush site where he was killed.