They held hands while enjoying romantic walks around the secluded grounds of a luxury castle and a country house. They even bought two large popcorns on two trips to the cinema.

It has to be the biggest game of hide-and-seek we've ever seen.…

THE culinary choices facing US President Richard Nixon that October night in Kilfrush House, Co Limerick, were not confined to whether he wished to have his Waterville potatoes boiled or baked.

Maeve McGrath is a once-familiar face to viewers of Irish soap Fair City but has since carved out a career in production.

With temperatures again nudging 30C yesterday, tour operators confirmed they were feeling the heat with a huge drop-off in last-minute bookings for sun destinations.

PROWLING for sex with prostitutes ended in “remorse and significant embarrassment” for 21 men caught by female detectives in a Garda operation.

MAGICAL days for Limerick’s Blackrock GAA club ahead of tomorrow night’s All-Ireland Club JHC final against St Colmcille’s of Tyrone.

THE Cruise Centre, Cork, and MSC Cruises have banded together to produce a series of information meetings as to what is on offer in the coming months.

WE, the plain (in some cases very plain) people of Ireland have reached a crossroads in our history.

GARDAÍ are investigating the disappearance of up to €100,000 from the funds of a Co Limerick GAA club.

EUROPEAN champions, genuine European champions — bask in that for a few months.

Marts: There was a strong export trade for the top quality weanlings for the Italian market at a Show and Sale at Kilmallock Mart where up to €675 over was paid for the tops of the continental bulls.

A CONTROVERSIAL €20 million superdump on the Cork/Limerick border is earmarked for a Bord Pleanála oral hearing.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

BACK on the market following the collapse of a recent sale is Castleoliver Farm, a 20-acre property near Ardpatrick in Co Limerick.

IDENTIFYING each other as their principal rival, Dermot Kelly and John McCarthy have justified the decision of the organisers to seed them in the top two positions for Sunday’s Mitchelstown-based Sean Conlon Memorial Tipperary Forest Rally — the second round of the KBB Doors National Forest Rally Championship.

A Co Limerick man, who suffered serious head injuries last week, has died.