Yesterday’s 12th of July celebrations North and South would have bamboozled King Billy himself.

When an elderly nun shouted “help” after being attacked when walking to morning mass in Limerick city centre, nobody came to her assistance.

It’s not just about winning for Mike Keohane, from Rosscarbery, Co Cork, who won a gold and two silver medals at the weekend at the British Transplant Games.

Two men have been arrested in connection with an arson attack on an Orange Hall and a Church in Co Donegal.

Two men have appeared before a special sitting of the District Court in Tralee, charged with thefts of tourist property at viewing spots, breaking into cars, and possession of house-breaking implements in the Killarney area.

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez enjoyed a double date with his grandparents on Sunday.

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Cork County Council has turned matchmaker to the region’s artists and venue owners in a bid to connect them ahead of next month’s colourful Culture Night.

A teenager who died following a severe asthma attack was laid to rest yesterday — 13 years to the day he was baptised.

The former taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, was one of the hundreds of members of the Fianna Fáil party who attended the removal of Micheál Martin’s father, Paddy Martin, last night.

THE killing of Osama bin Laden, a man who was America’s face of evil for nearly a decade, left Christians, Jews and Muslims relieved, proud or even jubilant.

A teenage boy was seriously ill in hospital in London today after he was stabbed in a street fight.

A YOUNG Irish woman is in a critical condition in a US hospital after she was subjected to a violent beating with a baseball bat during a robbery in the early hours of Friday.

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.

Robert Redford, the 71-year-old actor, has tied the knot with his 51-year-old partner Sibylle Szaggars in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday.

AUSTRALIANS mourning the lives lost in horrific wildfires last week sought comfort at churches yesterday even as firefighters continued to battle a dozen blazes still burning in the state.

An appeal brought by a Clare man against his conviction for the murder of his former girlfriend in the grounds of a church was dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama is expected finally to name his running mate this week.

Hollywood newlywed Tom Cruise has bought a house in Sussex, according to a report.

AT the 1975 Munster football final in Killarney the much-fancied Cork team were being hammered, and many Cork supporters began to bail out early.

POPE Benedict XVI washed the feet of 12 men yesterday, re-enacting Jesus’s washing of his apostles’ feet during the Last Supper and saying the act cleansed the “filth” of mankind.

Gardaí in Co Cork are investigating a suspected arson attack which gutted a restaurant located in an historic building in Skibbereen last night.

THE death has occurred of the maritime historian and anti-nuclear activist John de Courcy Ireland following a long illness. He was 94 years old.

BISHOP Eamonn Walsh described it as inexcusable that some priests of the diocese sexually abused children.

LIMERICK must do for Limerick what Cork does for Cork.

An infant born in the US last month to a severely brain-damaged mother whose plight touched hearts around the world has died, the family said today.

Musician Jools Holland married his long-term partner Christabel McEwen today in a private ceremony attended by a host of stars.

Petrol bombs were thrown at a Catholic Church today – just days after the parish priest called for the release of the Shankill bomber Sean Kelly.

A CHURCH of Ireland Rector, forced to leave the North after vicious threats and intimidation from the Orange Order, spoke out last night about the controversial invitation to Order members to march in Cork’s St Patrick’s Day Parade.

Prayers were said at churches across Liverpool today in memory of murdered hostage Ken Bigley.

JAMIE SPENCER took his total for the season to 78 with a 41-1 double on Senor Benny and Pantarez at Listowel yesterday.

Three generations of an American family were wiped out when a chartered aircraft carrying them to a game reserve crashed into Mount Kenya, killing all 12 tourists and the two South African pilots.

Tens of thousands gathered at the largest Orthodox Church in the Balkans today to mourn Serbia’s slain pro-Western prime minister, as a massive manhunt for his assassins continued.

Two teenagers were injured in an overnight loyalist bomb attack in east Belfast.