Twice as many people are afraid of going blind as of premature death or heart disease, a survey revealed today.

TWO horse racing legends led the field a merry dance at Munster Rugby’s annual golf classic at Dundrum House Hotel in Cashel.

ALMOST 1,000 people across Ireland are suffering from blindness caused by glaucoma, it emerged yesterday.

EIGHT students who completed their Leaving Cert exam at Sexton Street Christian Brothers School (CBS), in Limerick, will tonight each receive a JP McManus scholarship worth €4,500 per year, towards their third-level education.

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AS the British Government embarks on a plan to ban junk food in the classroom, a Limerick school has issued an invitation to British education chiefs to visit them and see how it should be done.

A 26-year-old man was jailed for life after a jury found him guilty of the murder of a 65-year-old who was “the best mum in the whole world”, at the Central Criminal Court today.

A judge directed a jury to find one of two men accused of murdering a 65-year-old grandmother not guilty due to insufficient evidence against the accused, at the Central Criminal Court today.

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