The Brooklyn native was seven years old when he slipped and fell into the Canal Bank in Corbally, while visiting his Irish relatives, in July 1963.

An investigation has been launched following reports of an alleged sexual assault on a young woman in Co. Clare.

A young girl has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition after a boating incident in Limerick this morning.

Fears at rapidly depleting water supplies with no rain forecast.

Students from Co Limerick who campaigned to raise awareness among teenagers about the dangers of sexting have won the title of Young Social Innovators of the Year 2018.

Limerick gardaí are probing the theft of a €10,000 mayoral chain from the glove box of a politician’s car.

Gardaí searching for a man who has been missing from Limerick city since December 12 have found his body.

Members of a Catholic association solely for men in Limerick have said they have not “died out” after their last exclusive men’s Mass was “euthanised” by the Church this summer.

Time has been called on a weekly Mass exclusively for men.

Time has been called on a weekly Mass exclusively for men.

An ambulance crashed on the way to the scene of a fatal car crash, it emerged during a High Court case yesterday.

A father served with an eviction notice by a finance firm which purchased his rented home to sell it to the highest bidder has threatened to chain himself to the property to stay there.

"If I got to space I'd figure out how to go to Mars and live there."

A Limerick man who fired a shotgun to protect his family from a group who had been out celebrating St Patrick’s Day was yesterday found not guilty of the illegal discharge of a firearm and causing criminal damage to a car owned by the people he felt under threat from.

St Patrick’s Day celebrations ended with a big bang at a Limerick city housing estate.

A married Limerick couple who previously were ordered to pay almost €1m to the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) over an illegal money lending business, were back in court yesterday arising out of a serious assault on a man last March.

 

A Limerick doctor working in the Canadian city ravaged by Alberta’s wildfires has told of the devastation caused by the blaze now raging over an area bigger than New York city.

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Waterways Ireland must compensate Limerick residents for flooding in the Corbally area of the city, a local councillor has claimed.

The Mexican Environment Secretary, Rafael Pacchia, says that the number of monarch butterflies hibernating in his country will be three to four times greater this winter than it has been in recent years, writes Richard Collins

A 53-year-old woman whose life revolved around her post office job at Limerick GPO was jailed yesterday for 18 months for stealing from customer accounts after she did not get a promotion.

YESTERDAY was another long, harrowing day for Joan and John Mulcair, from Corbally, Limerick, who attended the inquest into the death after her birth of their daughter Caoimhe. A verdict of medical misadventure was reached.

As a mother kissed her newborn baby in St Munchin’s Regional Maternity Hospital in Limerick, she was told her daughter was dying in her arms, an inquest heard.

On a great corner site in Cork’s Browningstown matrix of parks, this three-bed semi-d called Corbally is “your blank canvas, it’s waiting for someone to come in and make something special of it.”

University of Limerick graduates are the most sought after of any Irish college, the president of UL has said.

A former Limerick hurling legend yesterday told how his life changed irreparably, due to catastrophic injuries, when he was mowed down by a burglar during a high-speed chase with gardaí.

Burglaries in remote rural areas cause huge revulsion and fear and had to be dealt with sternly by the courts, a sentencing judge said yesterday as he added another year to a burglar’s time in jail for his latest crime.

A Limerick couple escaped injury when the front of their house was raked with automatic gunfire in a drugs related attack.

A Limerick teenager personally affected by suicide has collected thousands of signatures in a bid to light up the city’s bridges with life-affirming messages — reaching out to anyone thinking of taking their own life.

A baby who deteriorated during a four-minute transfer between Dublin hospitals died two days later, an inquest heard.

One of the men knocked down by an out-of-control car was so covered in blood and dust the local parish priest couldn’t even recognise his friend.

Gardai had to be called after residents of a Limerick housing estate prevented Irish Water staff from entering the estate this morning to lay water meters.

Smoke, mirrors, and just a few PR spells are always central in the quest to make a film star.

The decision to call in the services of a coastguard helicopter with thermal imaging equipment paid off during a search for an 80-year-old man in North Cork.

One-time billionaire businessman Tony O’Reilly has had a judgment for €22.6m entered against him at the Commercial Court.