Three members of the Travelling community who discovered the bodies of Thomas Ruttle and Julia Holmes during a break-in to the Ruttle home early on Monday are expected to be charged with attempted burglary.

West Limerick gardaí last night uncovered a massive rural cannabis harvesting network in four different locations.

Steve Collins tells inquest of son’s last moments

The murders of a mother, her two young children and a family friend, in a house in Newcastle West, Co Limerick, on Nov 15, 2010, was described by a coroner as “mindless, mind-numbing, inexplicable, vicious” crime which shocked the nation.

MERCHANT’S QUAY in Limerick was bristling with armed gardaí, TV cameras, photographers, journalists, and curious onlookers.

A man has been given four concurrent life sentences for murdering two women and two children.

A man handed over two greyhounds to a third party who shot them in the head, after they showed no promise of chasing hares, a court heard yesterday.

A man appeared before a special court sitting yesterday charged in connection with a stand-off with armed gardaí in Limerick.

The curtain came down on the 57th Corona Cork Film Festival last night following the announcement of the award winners at the Triskel arts centre.

A 16-year-old boy was last night being held in Limerick in connection with an armed tiger kidnapping which gardaí uncovered when checking out a suspect vehicle.

Two men were charged at Newcastle West District Court in Co Limerick yesterday with the murder of a Brazilian man whose body was found in a bog in North Kerry on Sunday.

A Wicklow brother and sister who assaulted a man outside his home leaving him with extensive head and facial injuries have been jailed for six years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

AN undertaker and car salesman appeared in court on a summons alleging he exhumed the body of an elderly man from a graveyard near Patrickswell without the necessary licence from Limerick County Council.

A 24-YEAR-OLD man has been sentenced to life in prison at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of his friend in a row in Co Wicklow last year.

A brother and sister who assaulted a man outside his own home are to be sentenced next year after a judge ordered a probation report on the pair.

THE garda investigation into the deaths of a woman, her two children and a family friend in Newcastle West has been completed.

STUMBLING blocks have been encountered in the huge investigation into the murders of a mother, her two children and a family friend in Newcastle West, a court heard yesterday.

World Champion Aidan Murphy hit pay dirt at Drimoleague on Saturday when he won the resumed Con Kelleher-Dan Hurley Cup final from what looked certain defeat and followed up with a convincing win over Martin Coppinger.

THE man charged with the murders of a young mother, her two children and a family friend has been moved to the Central Criminal Hospital, it emerged yesterday.

GARDA divers will this morning decide if sea conditions are good enough to go into the water at the location where the sunken trawler the Honeydew II was positively identified yesterday.

FIVE buses a day have been arranged from Kinsale to Dunmore over the weekend for those who will join the search for the bodies of the two fishermen missing from the Honeydew II.

FISHERMEN are spending thousands of euro of their own money each day in order to keep searching for signs of the stricken Honeydew II, which sank more than a week ago.

ALL available resources are to be focused into an intensive shore search in Waterford this weekend as it is more likely the bodies of missing fishermen may wash ashore on those days.

“HE WAS a family man first and a fisherman second; he loved his family.”

CANON John O’Mahony stood silently mouthing the rosary in Kinsale Harbour yesterday evening as less than 100 miles away poor visibility and worsening weather conditions forced search crews to return to shore without the two Kinsale fishermen they sought.

A LOADED handgun, fitted with a silencer, was given to an Egyptian national by a Limerick gang for delivery to a major drugs dealer in Dublin, a court heard yesterday.

SO close they can almost touch it. Midleton face St Flannan’s at Ennis tomorrow in the Harty Cup final and want to end 11 years of waiting.

THE waters and the wild — plus 3,000 square feet of space all wrapped up in a Kinsale address.

NORTHERN IRELAND politics has had a busy August. The word processors and wordsmiths of the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin have been particularly busy.

Two more SDLP councillors have received death threats, the party confirmed tonight.

A senior garda said he feared for the safety of the people of Limerick if two men charged in connection with a shooting in the city were granted bail, a court heard today.

TWO men, accused of assaulting a 43-year-old man who died from serious injuries early on Saturday morning, could face murder charges.

The DUP has been criticised following the news that the North's taxpayers will foot some of the legal costs for the party’s challenge to the re-election of David Trimble to the post of First Minister last year.

Stormont Finance Minister Mark Durkan was today poised to announce his candidacy for the leadership of the SDLP, according to party sources.

Dissident republicans were today blamed for an explosion outside a police station in Northern Ireland.