A jack-knifed truck has blocked the M7 Limerick to Dublin motorway just outside Limerick.

Gardaí have appealed for anyone who may have dash cam footage of a horse transporter that overturned while travelling along the N24, just outside Limerick, last night.

Part of the Dublin to Limerick rail line has been closed after a woman died after being struck by a train this evening.

A man who allegedly drove the wrong way along the N18 while attempting to evade gardaí, has had his hopes of holidaying in the seaside town of Kilkee dashed after a judge refused to vary his bail terms today.

The Menu’s annual accolades saluting the people and achievements that stood out in Ireland’s culinary calendar in 2016.

Should you be looking for The Menu in the coming weeks then he shall mostly be found atop Neidín, roaming the wonderful wilds of West Cork with a knife in his belt and a skillet on his back for the Taste of West Cork Food Festival (Sept 9-18).

The head of the Limerick divisional drugs squad said yesterday that the jailing of the Collopy brothers, Kieran and Brian, resulted from a clinically organised strike against the gang’s leadership after a year-long multi-agency Garda operation.

One of Limerick’s most feared drugs and feuding gangs was dealt a massive blow yesterday when two brothers, said to be at the top of the city’s heroin pyramid, were each jailed for eight years.

What was described as the top of the pyramid in the Limerick heroin distribution scene was uncovered in the kitchen of a council house during a garda raid.

A family has fled their home in Limerick “in fear” for their lives, after a man, armed with a butcher’s knife, broke into their house last Sunday morning and stabbed a man, a court has heard.

A family has fled their home in Limerick "in fear" for their lives, after a man, armed with a butchers' knife, broke into their house last Sunday morning and stabbed a man, a court has heard writes David Raleigh.

A Limerick man, who gardaí allege is a senior criminal figure, has appeared in court charged in connection with a high-speed chase over the weekend.

Two brothers charged in connection with the seizure of €50,000 worth of heroin in Limerick have been refused bail after a court was told of Garda fears they might leave the jurisdiction.

A doctor who works with the homeless and marginalised groups in Limerick city believes the level of suicide among people he offers cares to is now at “frightening levels”.

For decades Christy Keane’s family ran a sizeable coal delivery business from their base in St Mary’s Park, better known as the Island Field. He soon discovered his delivery business was an ideal cover to get into drugs.

Hundreds of marginalised people, many living rough, are being brought into mainstream health care through two new clinics run by a Limerick doctor, one of which is held in a soup kitchen.

In what a judge described as a sophisticated operation a large shipment of cannabis was delivered to various parts of the country concealed in electric fan boxes.

FOR OUR May Slow Food East Cork event we returned to Sage Restaurant in Midleton to celebrate the local food.

Two toddlers, one aged two and the other 17 months, were found asleep on a high chair and a bean bag when HSE inspectors visited a Limerick creche.

The manager of a Co Cork hotel yesterday denied sacking his leisure centre manager in a “knee-jerk homophobic reaction” on discovering his employee was running a sauna club in Shannon.

A man has appeared in court charged with assault causing harm to an off-duty garda in Limerick.

Relics of the German Third Reich were at the centre of a bidding battle in Limerick yesterday.

Limerick confectionery company Pandora Bell is finding a market for handmade swirly lollipops and old-fashioned salted caramels not just in Ireland but also in the US, Russia, and the Middle East.

An Army bomb disposal team has made safe a number of suspected viable explosive devices in Limerick.

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

A 14-MONTH-OLD baby boy was found dead in his car seat after spending three hours in a parked car on a warm day in July last year, an inquest heard yesterday.

A man has died in a road crash in Co. Limerick.

A TALENTED traditional Irish musician was looking forward to collecting a new set of uileann pipes on the day he was gunned down in a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A MASSIVE scrap metal enterprise operated by a number of families on the outskirts of Limerick city was yesterday dismantled in a clampdown on unauthorised waste facilities.

A 20-year-old Limerick man has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering a young man who “was in the wrong place at the wrong time” in December 2009.

The jury in the trial of a 20 year old Limerick man who denies murdering a carpenter who was shot in the head while “ in the wrong place at the wrong time” will resume its deliberations tomorrow.

The prosecution has finished calling evidence in the trial of a 20-year-old Limerick man accused of shooting dead a carpenter.

A senior Garda witness has told the murder trial of a Limerick man that he suspected the 20-year-old shot dead a carpenter in retaliation for an arson attack on his mother's van.

A 22-year-old witness in a murder trial told Gardaí he was in the passenger seat of a car when his friend, who was driving, reached across him with a gun and shot a man in front of him.

The Deputy State Pathologist has told a murder trial that the bullet used to shoot a young carpenter in Limerick in 2009, traveled straight through his head piercing his brain and fracturing his skull.

A 20-year-old Limerick man is due to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court later this week for the murder of a young carpenter just over a year ago.

A Limerick man is due to go on trial today for the murder of a carpenter.

A MEMBER of the naval service who died in a road accident on Sunday afternoon was buried yesterday with full military honours.

THE early sale of a 21-acre holding at Ballysimon, Co Limerick, left Tom Crosse of GVM quite pleased with the half million euro result for the residential holding.

AFTER a drinking session with friends, a businessman drove his 4x4 from a Co Limerick pub on the wrong side of the road and ploughed into a car killing a retired Clonmel secondary school teacher, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

OPINIONS on the Good Friday opening of Limerick pubs ranged from “sensible” to “scurrilous” among worshippers arriving for the 3pm Passion and Veneration of the Cross ceremony at St Joseph’s Church in the city centre.

NEARLY €16,000 seized from the home of a Limerick woman, who trades in various street markets, will not be returned until gardaí are satisfied the cash did not result from any illegal activities, a judge has ruled.

A HANDGUN found during a dig of lands in recent days at Ballysimon on the outskirts of Limerick has been identified as a Glock semi-automatic.