A crystal ball was not needed by councillors who foretold parking chaos will be caused by groups, including fortune tellers, parking their camper vans in Lisdoonvarna in August and September.

An undercover garda who posed as a boy-racer at a late night car rally said that if one of the cars performing ‘doughnuts’ had spun out of control, "it would have resulted in carnage".

A judge said that if Finance Minister Michael Noonan is offered money in cows and sheep, he should accept it.

A situation whereby speed-camera operators who come to court but fail to prosecute alleged speeding motorists for “one bad reason after another” has been described as “a complete waste of public money” by one judge.

A man appeared in court yesterday on a child pornography offence, accused of having in his possession images of naked boys.

Artist Séamus Nolan proposes that a boy who died in state care be made president for a day, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

A 31-year-old man on trial charged with murdering his wife’s cousin told gardaí that he had hurt him because he saw the victim in bed with his wife.

A NIGHTCLUB which indicated its intention to seek an exemption from Limerick District Court to open from 12.01am on Saturday after the Good Friday pub exemption finished in the city for a big rugby game, did not proceed with its application.

A DISTURBED Nigerian man, whose detention in a Garda station was ruled illegal by the High Court last Friday, was remanded to Limerick prison yesterday following an assault in a hotel on Sunday.

A TIPPERARY man was further remanded in custody on a charge of murder when he made a brief appearance yesterday at Limerick District Court.

BANDAGING little Gavin Murray’s massive burn injuries was so painful doctors had to put him under full anaesthetic for each procedure.

IT was a firebomb attack that shocked the nation.

The mother of a Limerick teenager who died after a brutal beating has pleaded for an end to the senseless killings in Limerick as her sons’ killers were sent to prison yesterday.

A playwright and arts administrator has been jailed for 16 years by Mr Justice Henry Abbott for raping a woman following a drugs and alcohol party in his Drogheda flat.

A hired hit man has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court after pleading guilty to the murder of a night club bouncer, who was shot in the head in front of his wife outside their Limerick home.

The wife of a murdered Limerick bouncer came face to face with a man charged with her husband's killing today, almost three years after his death.

A 19-year-old Limerick man, who was at the centre of a collapsed murder trial, has been jailed for four months for public order offences outside the city's courthouse.