As Danny Erskine directed a 30-strong rigging and technical team turning the University of Limerick Sports Arena into a massive theatre, Mary Sheahan employed age-old darning needle and ironing skills on much-travelled garments.

ROCKCHAPEL in north Cork, at the border of counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick, near the Mullaghareirk Mountains, is one of the highest villages in Ireland.

THE Irish priest murdered in Kenya yesterday had planned to retire next year and return home to his native Athea in west Limerick.