Defiant residents behind the country’s first organised water meter blockade have vowed to maintain their protest after successfully preventing work for an entire day yesterday.

An Irish runner caught up in the Boston marathon attack has vowed to compete in the event next year.

There was a dramatic development in the case of a former school supervisor who had already pleaded guilty before a jury of defrauding the Department of Education of more than €24,000.

Thirteen years after his disappearance, the parents of Aengus Gussie Shanahan have spoken out about how they believe he was murdered near a pub in Limerick.

IN 2003, big, detached houses on large sites in east Cork’s Ashbrook, near Carrigtwohill, were priced at €500,000. This had risen to €900,000 by 2006, when Amgen was optimistically mooted as a major local pharma sector employer. Prices have been sliding since.

LIMERICK hotel manager Triona O’Neill ran for her life carrying her son in her arms to escape a massive tsunami that flattened Samoan villages, killing at least 119 and leaving dozens missing.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has halved the three-year jail sentence imposed on a computer programmer who downloaded almost 16,000 child pornography images depicting children as young as four.

A LECTURER in Limerick has been named the world’s Outstanding Young Person of the Year.

I’M pleased the Road Safety Authority is planning to cut the waiting time for a driving test to 10 weeks by next March.

HOUSE and pool for sale: just add water, and stir. This big home at East Cork’s Carrigtwohill ‘village’ has immediate attic conversion potential and a swimming pool with the hard work, ie the digging, already done.

A bottle of holy water and religious pictures were found alongside ammunition in the car of a Dundalk man accused of IRA membership, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

Gardaí have released the name of the pensioner killed in a in a car crash in Newport, Co Mayo yesterday.