The Limerick City four-seat constituency bristles with big name candidates.

The Court of Appeal has spoken of society’s need to rehabilitate sex offenders in the case of a man jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy “hours” after completing a six-year sentence for another sexual assault.

A mass boycott campaign intended to kill off water charges has been launched.

A convicted sex offender has been jailed for 10 years for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago.

A convicted sex offender has been jailed for ten years for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago.

A convicted sex offender will be sentenced next week for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago.

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Gardai had to be called after residents of a Limerick housing estate prevented Irish Water staff from entering the estate this morning to lay water meters.

Public water taps have been installed in a Limerick housing estate where the supply has been contaminated by lead piping.

Irish Water are to be formally requested to attend a meeting of Limerick City Council to hear concerns over harmful elevated chemicals levels in the supply and about the strength of the network.

Garda colleagues of slain GAA star Ray Prendiville, who was shot dead in Namibia last week, praised him yesterday as a “warm and well-regarded” man.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that an Irish man has been shot dead in Namibia.

KATE VEALE (West Waterford) won bronze in the junior 10k at theEuropean Racewalking Cup in Olhao, Portugal, on Saturday.

This is the final tally from Limerick City:

THE plug might have been pulled on one of Ballybunion’s famed seaweed bath businesses, but there’s still a chance to take a bracing plunge by the water’s edge and the Ladies’ Strand.

TWO men on trial over Ireland’s biggest-ever drugs seizure were arrested after a garda found the pair walking among cattle on a west Cork country road, a court heard yesterday.

THE Medical Council is facing a substantial bill after the High Court yesterday directed it to pay the legal costs of two consultant obstetricians who successfully challenged findings of professional misconduct against them by the council over their 1998 reports on the work of Dr Michael Neary at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

By ruling against the medical council’s findings, Mr Justice Kelly has cast a harsh spotlight on their disciplinary practices, writes Conor Ryan.

TWO consultant obstetricians have won a High Court order overturning as “unlawful” findings of professional misconduct against them by the Medical Council over their 1998 reports about the obstetric practice of Dr Michael Neary at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

THE Medical Council acted unfairly and unlawfully in finding that two consultant obstetricians were guilty of professional misconduct over reports exonerating the obstetric practice of Dr Micheal Neary at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, the High Court was told yesterday.

SERIOUS questions are raised by the appointment of a doctor found guilty of professional misconduct to head up the country’s first National Clinical Skills Centre.

A LEGAL challenge by two doctors found guilty of professional misconduct will be met head-on by the Medical Council.

The Medical Council is vowing to vigorously defend itself in High Court proceedings being brought by two of the obstetricians recently censured over the Dr Michael Neary scandal.

TWO hospital consultants found guilty of professional misconduct are to seek a judicial review in the High Court of the Medical Council’s findings against them.

A DOCTOR found guilty of professional misconduct will continue in his role as president of a world- renowned medical society.

REGULAR cervical cancer screening could save the lives of 75 Irish women yearly, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.

PLANS by Fine Gael to extend the system of vetting people who work with children have been welcomed by CARI, the national voluntary organisation providing therapy to sexually abused children.

AN alarming increase in reported child sexual abuse has pushed a leading child protection group into a cash crisis.

IT was wrong to limit the time a convicted paedophile’s details should remain on the sex offender’s register, a leading child protection group said yesterday.

ONLY 3% of sex abuse cases validated by health workers end up in court.

SEXUALLY abused children are having to wait up to a year to be clinically assessed by specialists, a leading child protection group said yesterday.

IRISH children have been used in the making of child pornography in Ireland, the country’s child sexual abuse watchdog said yesterday.

LESS than one in 50 child sexual abuse cases reported by the victim is false, but in cases detected by a third party, most children will try to deny their suffering.