Budgets allocated for the Health Service Executive (HSE) are unaffected by financial settlements paid out in cases of alleged negligence brought against the HSE, the solicitor for Vicky Phelan has said.

She lit up a Limerick bridge for a good cause — and four years on from her bright idea, Katie Whelan, devotes plenty time to thinking of others.

A spokesman for Met Éireann has admitted they sometimes "overdo it" in order to err of the side of caution when it comes to issuing coded weather warnings.

The father of a Limerick man who has been missing for over 14 years said the RTÉ TV drama, Amber, depicted the day-to-day nightmare reality for countless families who still live in hope a loved one will be found.