A Limerick toddler is alive thanks to the quick thinking of two Garda detectives who kept her breathing during a medical emergency in Limerick city centre.

Irish legend and contemporary pop culture are set to coalesce in a new hip-hop theatre version of The Táin, to be staged as part of Limerick City of Culture.

TWO brothers appeared in court in Limerick on charges of threatening to kill a mother and her son and daughter.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese visited Cork to launch the Aloys Fleishmann Centenary Celebrations at Cork City Hall and reopen the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC.