Thousands of euro worth of food product at a west Limerick company had to be destroyed because of the pollution of the River Deel.

UP to 1,500 homes in west Limerick face a weekend of water rationing after an oil spill polluted a 20km stretch of the river Deel.

GARDAÍ are continuing an investigation after a man dumped a young mother out of his car and abducted her 2-year-old daughter.

WITH regard to Richard Bruton’s concern over state agencies doing more to support Irish goods and services through public procurement practice in Ireland, I feel that it will take a lot more than “concern” to move the civil servants who administer the tenders to think outside the box.

LAST month Eamon Fitzgerald packed his things, said goodbye to his mum and dad and made his way to Sydney via Shannon, London and Kuala Lumpur. It will be some time before he returns and, in that, he wasn’t alone.

TRUE love can make problems fade away — and it has certainly taken a big weight off the shoulders of a Limerick couple.

THOUSANDS of chickens were incinerated after an accidental fire destroyed a poultry farm early yesterday.

Limerick County Council has advised that a precautionary boil notice affecting 700 households will remain in place until the middle of next week at least.

AROUND 700 households were last night advised to boil their water amid health fears.

Up to 700 homes in County Limerick have been told their water is not safe to drink unless it's boiled.

MULTI-million euro property sales are completing this month on several Cork and Kilkenny properties.

WALKING around the west Limerick town of Newcastle West, there are two things that strike you— firstly, what a beautifully designed old fortress town it is and, secondly, just how can such a small population sustain an elite interiors shop like Objekt Design Space?

IT is one of the biggest price drops around: €5 million, down to €2.2 million.

FOR the second successive summer, rainfall totals were above normal everywhere and were more than twice the average in the east and southeast.

The country endured its wettest summer for 50 years, figures revealed today.

I FIND myself stuck in traffic on the M50, the N7, or in Dublin city, reluctantly adding to the traffic chaos because I need to visit a surgeon, attend a match, go to the airport for a holiday flight or visit the headquarters of a company that does not need to be located in Dublin.

THERE’S immediate development and speculative interest in the sale of fine old Castlemahon, a period home on Cork’s Castle Road near the emblematic Blackrock Castle.

THERE’S immediate development and speculative interest in the sale of fine old Castlemahon, a period home on Cork’s Castle Road near the emblematic Blackrock Castle.

A group of protestors has gathered outside the Dáil today to call for government intervention in a redundancy dispute in Limerick.

NEW hopes emerged yesterday for an improved redundancy package for 300 workers who recently lost their jobs in west Limerick.

HOPES of saving over 300 jobs at the Castlemahon poultry plant in West Limerick appeared doomed last night after local chicken growers abandoned a takeover bid.

HOPES of saving more than 340 jobs at Castlemahon Food Company in Co Limerick faded yesterday.

WEST Limerick’s thriving €20 million a year poultry industry faces a complete wipe-out with the loss of more than 300 jobs at a processing plant.

NEWCASTLE WEST’S business community last night warned of the anger, fear and frustration running high in the area over the Castlemahon Food Products’ liquidation decision.

Two hundred and sixty jobs are hanging in the balance today at the Castlemahon chicken processing plant in Co Limerick.

MORE than 300 new jobs in the financial sector will be announced for Limerick today by Trade and Enterprise Minister, Micheál Martin.

A 26-year-old van driver killed in a two-vehicle collision yesterday died just hours after attending his uncle's removal.

FOUR more people died on Irish roads this weekend, bringing to 70 the number of Irish people killed on the roads so far this year.

A man in his early 20s has been killed following a road accident in Co Dublin.

A man is dead following a road traffic crash in Co Limerick in the early hours of this morning.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

Around 150 jobs are to be lost at a Limerick poultry processing plant, it emerged today.