A NUMBER of companies owned by Limerick developer Robert Butler have fallen under the aegis of NAMA, accounts confirm.

AN INSPIRED performance by Colm Egan, brother of Westlife’s Cian, was not enough for Sligo Grammar at the Sportsgrounds yesterday.

A schoolboy who killed a senior teacher calmly accepted a suspension for driving on an athletics field hours before he opened fire with his policeman father’s gun.

The deputy head gunned down by a pupil during a school shooting rampage lost her fight for life today.

A terrific summer adventure for the kiddies – adults will find the plot too unconvincing – about a bunch of teens who discover little green men hiding in the attic of their holiday abode, with world domination on their minds.

’Codger’ is out, and don’t even think about using ’fogey’, ’fossil’ or ’elderly’, ageism activists in the US have warned.

Henrietta Knight ended a barren spell of six months without a winner when Cross Kennon landed the bumper at Ludlow today.

A SIMPLE, period property with 17.5 acres of land could make the perfect hobby farm, especially as it’s just outside Croagh in Co Limerick and close to the village of Adare.

A LOCAL authority has been accused by An Bord Pleanála of putting major road developments at risk.

MULTI-MILLION euro shopping developments are on the way for Killarney, where most investment in recent years has been in hotels, restaurants, pubs and tourism-related services.

THE Kerry branch of An Taisce and residents have voiced concerns about the traffic implications of a major shopping project earmarked for Killarney.

ONE man dropped his wife off at the maternity ward and returned to play his round of golf, but even he couldn’t upstage mobile phone magnate Denis O’Brien — who had the mother of all chip shots.

ADARE Golf Club has been ranked number one golf resort in Ireland and number three after Turnberry and Gleneagles in the Scotland/Ireland category by Conde Nast readership poll in the US.

ONE of Limerick’s well-known nightspots is ready to reopen, a year after it was closed down with debts of €4 million.

David Foley and Julie Randles have purchased The Wild Geese Restaurant in Adare in Co Limerick from property developer Robert Butler.