Taoiseach Leo Varadakar tried to Zombie-fy people, on the streets of The Cranberries native Limerick, into voting for Fine Gael in the upcoming European and local elections.

Senators seeking to be elected to the Dáil make up nine of the top 10 places on the publicly funded Oireachtas printing facility, new figures show.

Two siblings committed a civil fraud in selling their late father’s Dublin home, on foot of a death certificate for a woman with the same name as their stepmother, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The stepmother was alive at the time.

North Korea has expelled three BBC journalists — including an Irishwoman — it had detained days earlier for “insulting the dignity” of the authoritarian country.

An Irish woman is among a BBC team expelled from North Korea for what is been described as "disrespectful reporting".

A BBC reporter, a producer and a cameraman have been detained in North Korea and are being expelled from the country, the BBC has said.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Fine Gael has been dealt a further blow after high- profile candidates failed to get elected to the Seanad.

All roads led to Conna yesterday for the annual Tallow point-to-point meeting and Mulcahys Hill lit up the meeting by posting a scintillating frontrunning performance for the in-form Martin Hassett stable to claim victory in the four-year-old maiden.

What a impressive track.

Not all of the stations for Cork’s public bike scheme will be ready in time for next week’s launch, the National Transport Agency has confirmed.

Last Thursday night Mary Harty organised hot whiskeys for a group who gathered at her home near Pallasgreen, Co Limerick, for an ice bucket fundraiser for motor neurone disease.

Limerick City West is shaping up for a tight battle for the last of the seven seats.

Local politics along the banks of the Shannon is entering uncharted waters due to the unification of the city and county to form a united assembly.

Irish eventing celebrated yesterday when Aoife Clark became the first rider from this country to take the feature class at Blenheim, England, while the junior rider team took gold in the European Championships, along with bronze for the young rider team.

LIMERICK’S 815th mayor has vowed to make the promotion of the city centre a key priority during his term in office.

PRELIMINARY details for the 2012 Limerick International Band Parade and Competition have been unveiled with confirmation that four bands have already signed up to take part.

THE ancient art of bell- ringing, which goes back 700 years in Limerick, still fills the Sunday morning air.

A RETAIL incentive scheme to encourage businesses to move into vacant shops in Limerick has been given the green light by the city council.

LIMERICK’S special link with Hungary, since it took in hundreds of refugees in 1956 after the Soviet invasion, will be recalled tomorrow at a reception in City Hall.

THE country’s first major festival of the summer generated an estimated €20 million in visitor spend for the Limerick region.

LIMERICK fire service is the latest public utility to come under threat from cutbacks in local government.

THE country’s largest marching band walked away with the top prize at yesterday’s International Band Parade and Competition which attracted more than 30,000 people onto the streets of Limerick.

INCENTIVES are being offered to attract retailers into Limerick city centre which has suffered continuing shop closures.

INCENTIVES are being offered to attract retailers into Limerick city centre which has suffered continuing shop closures.

LIMERICK last night took on the mantle of European City of Sport for the coming year, the first Irish city to be accorded the honour.

TRIBUTES were paid to one of the country’s best known solicitors, Gordon Holmes, who died in Limerick.

THE businessman who spearheaded the €2.5 million re-development of Limerick’s famed Milk Market has accused the city council of undermining the retail project – by allowing nearby street traders to compete at lower charges.

TWO important historical archives with photographs, diaries and documents detailing life in Limerick and the mid-west from the early 20th century went on public display.

HUNDREDS of Limerick teenagers will take a walk down ‘Safety Street’ today, Ireland’s first purpose-built interactive centre where young people can experience various realistic scenarios in a safe environment.

TOP marks in the Junior Cert went to Cork, which has claimed five of the eight students with 12 or more higher level As in their exams this year.

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore insisted yesterday the huge decline in passenger numbers at Shannon will not be tackled by just transferring management of the airport from the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) to the Shannon Airport Authority (SAA).

LIMERICK City Council last night deferred a vote on a motion to block the development of a €4.9 million bus corridor in the city.

RESIDENTS opposed to a new bus lane being developed on a key Limerick city route are expected to pack a specially convened meeting of Limerick City Council this afternoon, when a vote will be taken.

MANAGEMENT at Limerick City Council are determined to face down moves by elected council members who want to block the provision of a key bus lane into the city centre.

Judgment has been reserved in an action brought by a woman over the sale of a property by her stepchildren after they allegedly obtained a death certificate in her name.

The stepchildren of a woman, who left her allegedly violent husband many years ago have denied they acted fraudulently in obtaining a death certificate for her.

The College Causeway team will be anxious in advance of tomorrow’s Paddypower.com Irish Derby semi-finals at Shelbourne. A year ago their star tracker was a very strong favourite in advance of the semis but trouble down the far side saw him bid farewell to his prospects.

A WOMAN councillor was forced yesterday to vacate a seat on a powerful committee and be replaced by a male colleague – due to gender legislation.

FEARS for the wellbeing of an elderly Limerick widow increased last night at an Italian lake resort where she has been missing since last Friday.

A GARDA had his ear almost completely bitten off and a colleague’s face was smashed by a head butt when they went to assist a distressed young child in a Limerick fast-food premises.

THE visits of a pope and a US president to Limerick and the victory of a great Irish athlete are to be commemorated by a piece of sculpture.