A councillor has called for horses to be banned from a Limerick town after it was revealed a horse trotted in the back door of gym, a council meeting heard.

Philip O’Leary, managing partner of Cork law firm FitzGerald Legal & Advisory, has been appointed as a board member to the Irish Banking Culture Board (IBCB), funded by Ireland’s five main retail banks with the aim of rebuilding trust in the sector.

Two of Ireland’s banks are betting that property prices are going to rise and are releasing new mortgage products aimed at tempting investors back into the property market.

State-owned Permanent TSB will completely overhaul the interest rates it charges on its mortgage products from tomorrow.

THE rolling Golden Vale has a number of big houses, but none so unique, in its way, as Baggotstown House in Bruff.