The National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) has had to defend its financial position amid concerns about its ongoing viability.

Latest: A senior Garda has expressed his delight after an attempted burglary of a 95-year-old man on the Kildysart Road near Ennis was foiled by Gardaí this afternoon

Galway 3-16 Roscommon 0-14: Sit up and take notice, was the Galway message. And in clinical style was it delivered.

Single-practice GPs are struggling to find locums, so it is difficult for them take summer holidays.

Pharmacists have expressed concerns over plans by GPs to dispense medicine directly to patients.

Galway 0-15 Meath 1-12: You can only imagine the scale of the inquests in Meath this morning had Mick O’Dowd’s men not rescued a draw with a scramble of points in the closing stages of this bizarre game at a cold, wet Salthill.

Ballyboden St Endas were made to bend low to secure a first All-Ireland final spot that looked beyond them for so much of the second half of normal time.

Galway 1-9 Tyrone 1-11: Damien Comer’s goal three minutes from time almost inspired Galway to an unlikely comeback win at Pearse Stadium, but ultimately poor finishing cost the Tribesmen dearly.

Ballyboden St Enda’s 2-8 St Vincent’s 0-10 (Dublin SFC Final): Anybody who knows the impressive breadth and rich vitality of Ballyboden St Enda’s would never describe them as giant-killers.

A 53-year-old woman whose life revolved around her post office job at Limerick GPO was jailed yesterday for 18 months for stealing from customer accounts after she did not get a promotion.

A “trusted” An Post worker pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing over €100,000 in funds from account holders, before putting the money back into their accounts.

Community psychiatric services need to be available 24/7 to address the country’s high suicide rate, general practitioners urged yesterday at their annual conference in Limerick.

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The Chair of the Public Accounts Committee says his members will be putting forward a "robust defence" against Angela Kerins' legal action.

Liverpool defender Daniel Agger is keeping his latest tattoo secret as the ink isn’t even dry on the creation at Limerick City’s All Star Ink Tattoo studio.

One of the country’s leading surgeons has spoken of his devastation at the unexpected death of a mother of four during an uncomplicated elective surgical procedure.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny heaped more pressure on Rehab CEO Angela Kerins to reveal full details of her salary, saying the “nauseating spectacle” surrounding the finances of Irish charities had to end.

A senior garda has said there is no village or small town in Clare that does not have a drug dealer.

A judge has told a court that a 28-year-old man could have killed someone after placing boulders across a bad bend on a road leading out of Ennis in the middle of the night.

Ballyboden St Enda’s advanced to the to the Dublin SFC quarter-finals following a controversial win over Kilmacud Crokes on Saturday.

Fundraising runs, walks, and cycles in one county could be put at risk after a senior garda warned that dwindling resources may result in the withdrawal of Garda support for such events.

A priest speaking yesterday for the distraught family of a hit-and-run accident victim appealed to the driver to come forward.

Diarmuid Murtagh was the hero for champions Roscommon as they booked a place in the Connacht minor football championship final.

THE head of the Limerick Garda division said yesterday a huge drop in crime, particularly burglaries, during the month of January in Limerick city and county, was possibly due to the icy weather preventing criminals travelling on the treacherous road conditions.

Ballyboden St. Endas 1-10 Rathnew 1-7

AFTER a fortnight of energy sapping action, Ballyboden St Enda’s put their fatigue to one side to claim a remarkable Dublin SFC title at Parnell Park.

Ballyboden St. Enda's 2-12 St. Jude’s 1-13

TWO men gardaí believe can be linked to the murder of 35-year-old businessman Roy Collins have had their period of detention extended.

THE recession was given a rest in Limerick last night as thousands of Irish and French rugby fans saturated the city for Munster’s first Heineken Cup game at the new €40 million Thomond Park.

GARDAÍ said more than 10 shots were fired at a house on the outskirts of Limerick early yesterday.

A REVOLVER and more than 200 bullets were found during house searches in Ballynanty on the north side of Limerick city yesterday.

TWO women and two men were being questioned by gardaí in Limerick last night in connection with the murder of Gareth Grant in St Mary’s Park on October 8 last.

THE mother of two whose naked body was found in a bath in a Limerick hotel may have met her killer through an internet dating site.

GARDAÍ revealed yesterday they are satisfied as to the identity of the gunman that killed Gary Grant in Limerick last week.

TWO PENSIONERS have been arrested in connection with Monday’s fatal gun attack in Limerick city, as it emerged that a second man died earlier on the same day following a violent assault in the city centre two weeks ago.

A NOTORIOUS Limerick gang is suspected of carrying out the city’s latest murder after a man was gunned down on a busy street yesterday morning.

IT MAY take up to two weeks before gardaí establish if a Polish man who died following an assault at a house party in Limerick was murdered.

The Government faces a General Election backlash from salmon fishermen after approving an EU ban on drift netting, it was warned today.

SALMON netsmen throughout the country descended on the Dáil yesterday to campaign against plans they say will kill off their livelihoods.

MORE than half of women with breast cancer in the west are having to undergo a mastectomy, compared to one-fifth of women in Dublin who have the disease, new figures reveal.