Brendan O’Neill felt a sense of peace and wellbeing on a visit to the Treaty city.

A crowd led by a mother of 17 and two of her sons repelled two gardaí as they tried to seize a powerful car in which five balaclava-clad men were travelling, a court has heard.

A good restaurant does not go unnoticed for long, and the best featured in the Munster regional final of the Irish Restaurant Awards.

Limerick is preparing for a tasty €10m economic French dressing as thousands of Toulouse supporters throng the city today in advance of the Heineken Cup quarter-final clash with Munster in Thomond Park tomorrow.

Dingle Food Festival

The West is very much awake for The Menu as he hightails it off down to Heir Island, West Cork, for Firehouse Bread’s splendid wood-fired oven bread-making course.

BEST view of Limerick City? From The Strand hotel’s elevator. Launching from a sleekly-styled lobby, its glass walls zoom upwards to a panorama over Sarsfield Bridge, the mighty River Shannon and Limerick Castle.

Denis Lehane previews the BT Young Scientist Exhibition