A former garda, previously tasked to one of a number of fatal road traffic accidents in the Limerick village of Clarina, has said the 100km/h speed limit on the N69 approach road into it is “dangerous”.

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

Revenue investigators uncovered an estimated Vat fraud of almost €300,000 at fish and chip outlets in Limerick, when they looked into non-payment of plastic bag levies, a court heard

Aer Lingus transatlantic cabin crew member Olive Murphy will turn pilot at the upcoming Cheltenham race meeting.

Coursing: The Doolan family in Clarina, Co Limerick, can’t wait for tomorrow to dawn as they head to Clonmel for the National Coursing Meeting where their bitch Breska Lantern is favourite for the Oaks.

The Nenagh-Midleton clash was to determine the other qualifiers from Group 4, which Hamilton High School had already won.

The Limerick City club official who staged a one-man protest before a divisional final at the weekend insists he has no regrets about his actions.

Limerick GAA chiefs insist tomorrow’s contentious JAHL final will go ahead despite the planned protest of a St Patrick’s club official.

A former restaurateur jailed for 15 years for importing almost €80,000 worth of cannabis featured in a TV documentary on how he had mended his ways after getting a seven-year sentence in 2000 for importing drugs worth over €1.65m.

Local politics along the banks of the Shannon is entering uncharted waters due to the unification of the city and county to form a united assembly.

Armed men broke into a house near Patrickswell, beat up the man who lived there, then tried to strangle him with an electric cable, and hit him over the head with a handgun.

The contrast couldnot have been more pronounced: The azure seas glistening off West Waterford and the brown gunge lapping the East Cork coast.

Two months after getting the freedom of his native city of Limerick, rugby star Paul O’Connell will be forming the ultimate rugby union.

ACTION has been demanded over traffic lights and a roundabout leading to a ‘ghost estate’ on the N69 which runs along the Shannon Estuary from Limerick.

CHARLEVILLE CBS won this Harty Cup quarter-final tie at Clarina yesterday far more convincingly than the score line suggests.

THE ashes of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt will be scattered today at a very special location in his adolescent life in the Limerick countryside.

A HUGE road side sign beckoned: “Clarina Village. Announcing development of Retirement Homes in Peaceful Setting.”

A FORMER garda was last night elected president of the 87,000 member Irish Farmers Association.

LARGE parts of the rail and road network will remain closed this morning while the country counts the cost of the torrential flooding which has devastated thousands of homes and businesses.

THREE candidates have been nominated to contest the election of the next president of the Irish Farmers Association.

MAYO have made two changes from the side that defeated Tipperary for next Sunday’s All-Ireland MFC semi final clash with Down at Croke Park.

THE driver of an articulated truck had no chance of avoiding a car in which two men died following a head-on impact near a notorious junction on the Limerick-Nenagh N7 roadway, an inquest heard.

THE son of Euro lottery millionaire Dolores McNamara has claimed members of a local soccer club are deliberately blocking the entrance of his new €1 million mansion because of jealousy.

YOUR columnist Terry Prone (Irish Examiner, May 8) offered nurses a warning, well intentioned no doubt, on the public perception of the image of the profession.

EUROMILLIONS winner Dolores McNamara has splashed out on a half a million euro home for her eldest daughter.

A group of children at the centre of a Limerick school bus row today hired a private vehicle to protest outside the Dáil.

THE Limerick school bus row sparked open political warfare among Fianna Fáil ministers yesterday.

BUS ÉIREANN has blamed parents for hampering efforts to sort out school bus places by failing to pay their children’s transport fees on time - even though they have no guarantee of a seat.

THE death has occurred in Limerick of Des McDonnell, manager of the county senior football team in the late 1970 and early 80s.

Two young male motorcyclists have died and a third man is in a serious condition in hospital following separate overnight road accidents in Limerick and Cavan.

A 26-year-old motorcyclist has died after colliding with a car near Clarina in Co Limerick last night.

THE crossroads of Clarina, with 15 houses, a closed-down post office, two filling stations, equestrian centre and a GAA pitch, will never be the same again.

A man in his 60s was killed instantly yesterday after he was hit by a flying wheel from an articulated lorry on the outskirts of Limerick.

IN reply to the letter from Education Minister Noel Dempsey (Irish Examiner, Dec 27), might I inform him that he has a lot in common with George W Bush. Firstly, the minister also misses the point.