Gardai in Limerick are renewing their appeal for information about a school bus crash in Caherconlish earlier this week.

A Limerick teenager who risked her own safety to help rescue younger children after their school bus crashed into a field said the dramatic incident has inspired her to one day become a paramedic.

A Limerick man involved in running a children's charity in Africa has been jailed for six years for the sexual defilement of a 13-year old girl.

THE jungle drums continue to beat about TV3’s Garda soap opera Red Rock. 

Champions Kilmallock remain unbeaten in their Limerick SHC title defence.

Less than two months after their All-Ireland Club final defeat to Ballyhale Shamrocks, Kilmallock got off to a winning start in the group stages of the Limerick senior hurling championship.

Simon Ryan claimed a sensational victory at Rás Luimní in Caherconlish, Limerick, yesterday.

Gardaí are continuing a major investigation into a bizarre attempted child snatch in Co Limerick.

Baby feed time at the Slattery household in Caherconlish is a marathon routine.

The overwhelmed parents of Ireland's newest set of quadruplets have stocked up on more than 5,000 nappies, just to cover the first six months of nappy changing for their new large family.

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A grandfather forced to “break into” his own home in a ghost estate yesterday issued a “hands-off” ultimatum to AIB and accountants KPMG.

Former London senior footballer Killian Phair marked his Limerick SFC debut with a crucial goal to maintain the unbeaten start of champions Dromcollogher-Broadford.

Fear gripped an idyllic rural thatched cottage in Limerick when intruders terrorised the middle-aged woman living there, a court heard.

Páidí O’Brien won his second race in as many weeks when he scorched to victory in yesterday’s Carrick Wheelers Cup in Carrick on Suir.

Five brides were yesterday excitedly reliving stolen memories of their big day.

Sitting TDs criticise old system that saw parts of Limerick and Kerry put together, writes David Raleigh

A young Co Limerick GAA star has come out of a week-long coma after a horrific roof top fall at the family farm.

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 FOUR goal blast from John Fitzgibbon saw Adare book their place in the Limerick SHC quarter-finals and lay down a marker to all contenders in the remaining eight.

CHAMPIONS Kilmallock have one foot in the quarter-finals of the Limerick senior hurling championship after defeating Garryspillane in a repeat of the 2005 final.

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

A MAN who took part in a brutal gang rape of a woman at Cratloe in Co Clare in 2004, when he was aged 16, has been jailed for failing to notify gardaí of where he was living, which was compulsory after he been placed on the Sex Offenders Register as part of his sentence for the horrific attack.

A MAN stabbed at a Co Limerick petrol station on Thursday was in a stable condition at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital last night.

YESTERDAY’S West Waterford Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Lismore is one that will live long in the memory of teenager Jason Kiely for the 18-year-old amateur from Herbertstown partnered an initial career winner aboard the Patrick Farrell-trained Haile Deadly in the winners of one contest.

An investigation is underway into a fatal house fire in Co Limerick.

WATER supplies across the country are still at critically low levels, with more than 1,500 homes in Cork city alone still without water.

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.

LIMERICK’S hammering in the All-Ireland hurling semi-final against Tipperary should serve as a powerful motivation for the team going forward, writes county secretary Mike O’Riordan in his report to last night’s annual convention in Caherconlish.

WORSHIPPERS dived for cover in a Co Limerick church after a lit firework was flung through the gallery door and exploded.

A man and a woman have died following separate crashes yesterday evening in Limerick and Tyrone.

TWO men were arrested in Limerick yesterday in connection with the murder of Darren Bennett last month.

Two men have escaped with an undisclosed sum of money following an armed robbery at a Limerick post office this morning.

A WOMAN tried to pass a large quantity of drugs to a prisoner in Limerick Prison while kissing in the visiting area, a court heard.

ONE man was in custody in Limerick last night after a terror hijacking in which a young woman was held captive in a stolen car as it sped through the city.

CHAMPIONS Adare remain on track to retain their Limerick SHC title after receiving a big scare from divisional side Western Gaels in Newcastlewest on Saturday.