Rail and bus travellers passing through Colbert Station are left in no doubt as the most treasured person in this part of Limerick City.

MIKE SHERRY reels off all the names he must leapfrog to achieve his ultimate ambition of becoming Ireland’s first choice hooker.

THE penny only dropped for Mike Crowley a couple of days after last month’s Limerick county senior final.

IT’S been a bad few weeks in Limerick hurling with the controversy whipped up over the decision by senior manager Justin McCarthy to jettison a dozen players from the panel, including several of the county’s most high-profile hurlers.

AFTER the dejection of Saturday night’s All-Ireland qualifier loss, Clare hurling looks to get back on track at Cusack Park, Ennis tonight (7.30pm) with the Bord Gáis Energy Munster U21 HC semi-final against Limerick.

PAUL O’CONNELL has been named Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland Player of the Year.

PAUL O’Connell doesn’t ask for miracles from those around him. Being the pragmatist he is, the Munster second row accepts that everybody has been endowed with different gifts.

THE lure of playing Gaelic football for Limerick and the possibility of winning a Munster championship medal proved too great for John Galvin.

MORE than 700 second-level pupils were kept at home because of a one-day strike by teachers who claim the school board has denied them rights of representation.

LIMERICK travel — not in hope but in expectation — to Cusack Park in Ennis tomorrow for a Munster SFC semi-final appointment with John Kennedy’s Clare.