A plumber and heating contractor has appeared in court again, charged with the manslaughter of a woman who died from carbon monoxide poisoning following a gas leak in a Co Cork hotel.

A wheelchair user who was sentenced to four years in January for distributing cannabis across Limerick and Kerry has been jailed again for dealing cannabis.

Two men are still being detained at Wexford and Cavan garda stations, in connection with separate drugs seizures with a total street value of almost €1m.

Detectives have seized cannabis and cannabis plants with an estimated street value of €650,000 in two separate operations.

A Limerick woman is suing a Kinsale hotel over an incident that killed her sister.

THE family of hotel gas leak victim Miriam Reidy has drawn “immense comfort” from their faith following their daughter’s death a year ago.

THE Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is still investigating the circumstances which led to the death of a young woman from carbon monoxide poisoning in a Cork hotel.

CONSIDER this. Since Dublin last won the Leinster SHC, exactly 50 years ago, the county has annexed six football All-Irelands and 23 provincial titles.

THE young woman who died in a Co Cork hotel room earlier this year while on weekend hen party died from acute carbon monoxide poisoning, it was confirmed yesterday.

THE hotel in which a young woman died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning reopened its bar yesterday.

The funeral takes place today of Limerick woman Miriam Reidy.

HUNDREDS of people yesterday visited the home of Kinsale tragedy victim, Miriam Reidy in Ballyhahill, Co Limerick, where she lay in repose.

THE funeral of the woman who died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning last weekend is to take place on Sunday, raising hopes that her older sister who was also poisoned, may be able to attend.

THE funeral of the woman who died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in a Cork hotel is being delayed in the hope her hospitalised sister will be well enough to attend.

A GRIEF-stricken uncle of Miriam Reidy yesterday spoke of the family’s devastation at her death.

THE woman who died after celebrating a hen party night in Kinsale sent a text message to a friend, hours before her death, complaining she and her sister were feeling sick.

GARDAÍ are investigating reports the woman who died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in a Cork hotel was seen by a doctor hours before her death.

A WOMAN on a weekend hen party died yesterday and her sister is in a critical condition in hospital after a suspected gas or fumes leak in a tourist town hotel.

THE prestigious Limerick Lady title was won last weekend by John McLoughlin, Falduff, Louisburgh, Co Mayo, with his home-bred qualifier at Westport Show, by Grosvenor Lad out of Falduff Lady.

THREE youths have been questioned by gardaí about a Easter weekend assault in a Co Limerick village in which a man was stabbed a number of times and his car was taken at knife point.

LIMERICK County Council warned yesterday that water supplies were coming under extreme pressure as a result of burst pipe leaks and increased demand.

Householders around the country tonight faced a second evening without fresh running water as reservoirs were ordered to ration supplies.

Thousands of homes were facing water shortages again today as local authorities continued to ration supplies in the wake of the big freeze.

THE funeral takes place today in Co Limerick of the first person to die on Irish roads in 2010.

ONE person died and three others are seriously injured in hospital after car accidents.

Gardaí today warned of hazardous conditions across the country due to the ongoing freeze and said the cold snap was set to persist into next week.

Clonmel is coursing’s Mecca, an annual pilgrimage repeated over the three-day early spring National Coursing Meet at Powerstown Racecourse, but it’s a restricted affair.

YOU can’t argue with success, but how the hell do you talk to failure? How do you face down over a century of submission, of abject failure?

Gardai have named the woman who was killed in a road accident in Co Limerick yesterday morning.