THE garda reserve would attract “a mixed grill of quasi do-gooders and messianic zealots”, a garda conference heard yesterday.

LIMERICK’S crime gangs could infiltrate the proposed Garda Reserve Force, the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors warned last night.

A 24-year-old father who dangled his baby daughter over a bannister and threatened to throw her down the stairs has been jailed for six months.

THE funeral which divided two families in the High Court earlier this week went ahead yesterday, with just mourners from one side present.

A MAJOR garda security operation will be in place in Askeaton today and tomorrow for the funeral of Kathleen McCarthy-O’Reilly.

FOR once, Munster rugby star Jim Williams led the way out onto a crowded Limerick arena without feeling any pressure.

More than 100 civil servants in the North staged a second unofficial walk-out today in protest at the suspension of colleagues for refusing to carry out the work of people on strike.

OBJECTIONS to a Leaving Cert party offering free cocktails for students over 18 who produced their exam results and ID card yesterday led to the event being cancelled.

CELEBRATING a century of involvement in Irish Motorsport, Dunlop is again supporting the National Rally Championship that begins in Ballina on Sunday.

THERE has been a 75% reduction in the number of speeding fines issued since the penalty points system was introduced just three weeks ago, according to garda figures.