The visit by the head of the CIA John Brennan to his family home in Co Roscommon should surely not have passed without the Government taking the opportunity to ask him about the rendition planes his organisation brought through Shannon Airport.

A 29-year-old Limerick woman has said that she heard John Dundon plan a killing a couple of weeks before rugby player Shane Geoghegan was murdered in a case of mistaken identity.

After surviving an overdose seven years ago, one man set out to save others, writes David Raleigh

THERE’s house renovations — and then there’s this Raheen job, a real labour of love.

PUBLICANS are driving their customers home, offering free rounds of drink and running book clubs in a bid to attract customers.

AN appeal has been made in Limerick for help in finding a missing parrot who speaks only Polish.

A MAN pretending to be a detective stopped and frisked a group of teenagers as they walked near their homes, Limerick gardaí confirmed yesterday.

EVEN though the writing was on the wall since the day workers at the Raheen plant in Limerick started training their Polish successors to run the new €200 million Dell plant in Lodz, yesterday’s announcement that 1,900 jobs, and anything up to another 10,000 downstream jobs are to go, is a huge body blow to our economy and our country’s badly shaken confidence.

SILENT queues formed as people numbed by this latest murder waited to sign a book of condolence for the family of Shane Geoghegan.

SIX hours of almost constant writing is too much for anybody, according to disgruntled students who took two English Leaving Certificate papers yesterday.

A TENSE stand-off began yesterday between landowners and the ESB over plans to erect power lines for a privately-owned wind farm.

KILDARE football champions Sarsfields must get the very best from their defenders if they are to win Sunday’s AIB Leinster club final in Navan.

INTERPOL were last night called in by gardaí to help hunt down Brazilian Adriano Kiel, 27, who failed to turn up for sentence at the Central Criminal Court yesterday following a conviction for raping a Limerick hotel worker on January 26 last.

Munster stores picked up a hat-full of honours at the recent FBD Crest National Retail Excellence Awards.

Gardaí in Limerick are investigating an apparent abduction in the city last night.

THE higher level Leaving Certificate geography paper was regarded as very fair with a good choice of questions by students at Limerick’s Crescent College Comprehensive.

THE Junior Certificate geography paper seemed to please the majority of students at one school yesterday.