Golfing on our national holiday is becoming more and more of a tradition, writes Kevin Markham. And there are plenty of innovative options this year.

Valerie O’Connor hears how a ‘Supergarden’ designer is helping friends cope with a tragic loss through suicide of a husband and father

Valerie O’Connor marvels at the sculptures and macabre placements that make up Des Kingston’s winning design for the RTÉ series at Bloom.

A 26-year-old Limerick man told gardaí that “McCabe is no loss” and shouted “Ben O’Sullivan and Jerry McCabe got what they deserved”.

A businessman who owns five supermarkets, including the biggest SuperValu in the country, is to invest nearly €9m upgrading four of them.

How incoming England manager Sam Allardyce contrived to keep a hard-drinking Limerick player off the beer was recalled yesterday.

Lift the latch and individuality comes jumping out at you in this rustic cottage, says Trish Dromey. 

YOU’LL need to step outside Culhane’s Irish pub to realise how far you are from home.

The decision to get rid of the Seanad from the Oireachtas is a big one, and one that will greatly affect everyone in the country.

A graphic design graduate has described her “emot-ional agony” after she was punched, kicked, and choked by her then boyfriend who told her he was going to kill her.

Shades of Lazarus!

Ardfield, West Cork €375,000

Many leaders of a prolific crime scene have been jailed, writes Jimmy Woulfe

As wide-scale searches continued in West Limerick last night for three members of a Cork City-based burglar gang, gardaí discovered a large quantity of cash and jewellery discarded in a field.

GARDAÍ believe they may have smashed a racket involving the theft of phone cabling from Eircom poles.

A MAN has been acquitted of threatening to kill the father and sister of his former business partner after a week-long trial at the Special Criminal Court.

A MAN described as a “foot soldier” in Limerick’s notorious McCarthy Dundon gang was jailed yesterday for six years for his role in a planned retaliation gun attack in the continuing city feud.

Water shut offs are still in effect in many places this morning.

A Limerick man, who was arrested along with seven other men following a Garda investigation into extortion, has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to violent disorder.

TWO Limerick brothers who were the alleged victims of a kidnapping in 2003 shortly before the murder of a city gang leader were yesterday jailed for a total of 14 years after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition earlier this year.

Three men and a woman were arrested and a firearm seized in Limerick today as part of a crackdown on gang crime.

GARDAÍ in Limerick may have their own golf course if talks with a long established club succeed.

A SCHOOLGIRL killed in a road accident yesterday played for her county in a packed Croke Park on All-Ireland Football final day, it emerged last night.

Goalkeepers are a rare breed, hurling No 1’s especially. Diarmuid O’Flynn met two legendary netminders from Cork and Tipperary ahead of tomorrow’s provincial semi final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

A PLANNING application has been lodged with Limerick County Council for an underground shooting range.

A SISTER of Defence Minister Willie O’Dea has put down a marker for the local elections next year.

A WOMAN questioned about the murder of a man whose body was found dumped in a slurry tank was released without charge last night.

THE inquest of former Limerick criminal turned politician Mikey Kelly has been set for next Wednesday.

Port mortem results released to Gardaí this afternoon indicate that the man whose body was found amongst waste at a recycling plant in Co. Limerick was accidentally crushed to death.

THE National Ploughing Championships for the wellies: Killarney Races for the brollies.

FEW would disagree with your editorial on puppy farms (June 23) — “cruel, inhumane and unacceptable by every civilised standard”.

A LIMERICK secondary school says it will become the first co-ed in Munster to offer scholarships to girls pursuing third level degree courses from September.

A RESIDENTIAL farm property close to Bruff at Grange, Co Limerick, is due for auction April 18 with GVM Auctioneers, Kilmallock.

DURING a high-speed incident involving feud gangs, a gunman opened fire while hanging out a car window weaving in and out of traffic, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

A rally is being held in Limerick today after a series of attacks which culminated in two young children being burned in an alleged arson.

A man is to appear before Limerick District Court today in connection with a shooting incident on Tuesday.

Gardaí were today hunting an armed gang after a drive-by shooting in the village of Ballyneety, Co Limerick.

Investigations into the death of notorious Limerick city criminal and politician, Mikey Kelly, is drawing to a close, writes Jimmy Woulfe Mid-West Correspondent.

IT’S thirty-two years since Limerick won a hurling All-Ireland. Another title would be like the Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Two Mile Chase all rolled into one for their most benevolent supporter, JP McManus.