A total of 341 vehicles were caught speeding on National Slow Down Day, gardaí have revealed.

Beyond party town, it’s the place to begin exploring the great outdoors

A gunman who had clocked up more than 117 convictions has been jailed for five years for selling guns and ammunition to Limerick gangs.

Champions Kilmallock remain unbeaten in their Limerick SHC title defence.

Kelly O’Brien spoke to five people working abroad

A husband has claimed that minutes after a mother preparing to give birth was given a pain-killing injection following a flare-up between doctors, “chaos” erupted and medical staff rushed around in a panic.

Paul Carberry was seen at his patient and masterful best on board Xsquared in the featured Fast Shipping Bellewstown Handicap Hurdle last night.

More than 20,000 pilgrims, including three bishops, braved torrential rain yesterday to scale the 764m to the summit of Croagh Patrick for the annual Reek Sunday climb.

Farmers will be phoning home more often, thanks to the latest mobile and smart phone applications which help them tackle day-to-day tasks.

An untiring commitment to voluntary community work for more than a quarter of a century was recognised with the awarding of the Paddy Fitzgerald Memorial Award to a County Limerick woman.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney (and his daughter Beth) were on hand to congratulate Pat and Derek Frawley, from Croagh, Rathkeale, Co Limerick, and their cow handler Stephen McLoughlin, when they won the prestigious Maverick Golden Vale Cup, presented by Kerry Agri Business at Charleville Agricultural Show last weekend.

It was a chance for the Red Army to pay homage to its spiritual leader.

Today they go in search of a second Munster Vocational SAHC title in four years in Croagh against Nenagh VS. Recently they collected the Munster JAHC crown for the fourth successive year.

The setbacks kept on coming for Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne in last year’s Corn Uí Mhuirí final, their first ever appearance in the Munster Colleges decider.

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.

ST LEO’S College, Carlow, produced a powerful performance to retain their Tesco All-Ireland Post Primary Schools Senior A Ladies football title at Croagh, Limerick on Saturday.

TRALEE CBS withstood a fierce challenge from St Flannan’s to capture honours in an exciting Frewen Cup (Munster Colleges U16½ AFC) final at the Limerick venue of Croagh yesterday afternoon.

TRALEE CBS bid to round off an impressive Frewen Cup campaign with victory in this afternoon’s final against St Flannan’s (Ennis) in Croagh, Limerick (2.30).

GARDAÍ believe two men who died and a third who was injured in a single car accident near Adare on Tuesday night may have been on a criminal mission at the time.

The Garda Ombudsman Commission Office has been notified after a fatal road crash in Co Limerick last night.

Investigations are underway today into a road crash in Co Limerick that claimed the lives of two men.

THE Tesco All-Ireland senior post primary schools ladies football finals take place this afternoon in Limerick and Longford, and there is a whiff of possible revenge in the midlands air.

RESPECTING the dead is strictly by appointment at a cemetery in Limerick county.

A LIMERICK taximan is recovering in hospital after being brutally assaulted by a man and woman who dumped him on the side of a country road late at night before making off in his taxi.

PA JOY, who was introduced to the Kerry senior football championship by Laune Rangers this year, may have scored just one point for Intermediate School Killorglin in yesterday’s Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SFC) tie at Croagh but he engineered the decisive goal in this thrilling affair.

A SIMPLE, period property with 17.5 acres of land could make the perfect hobby farm, especially as it’s just outside Croagh in Co Limerick and close to the village of Adare.

RELATIVES are being prevented from visiting the graves of loved ones at a Co Limerick cemetery due to fears they may end up joining the dead.

ROUTE options for a €1 billion motorway linking Cork to Limerick will go on display again next week due to public demand.

SIX route options for a €1 billion 90km superhighway between Cork and Limerick have been unveiled.

THOUSANDS of homes and farms in Co Limerick, which had been on boil water warnings, have a safe, secure supply following the completion of remedial works.

AGRICULTURE has hit an upturn after a period of transition in which the implications of decoupling were absorbed.

WHERE would you get it?

MIKE LISTON, the 47-year-old firefighter and father-of-four killed in yesterday’s horror road accident in Co Limerick, had lost a brother two years ago in another double fatality.

MORE than 250 households in west Limerick today enter their sixth month having to boil drinking water due to an ongoing health scare.

PEOPLE in four west Limerick parishes are having to boil all drinking water over Christmas due to an ongoing health scare.

A CO Limerick bank has returned remarkable figures during a boom 2004. A baby boom year.

President Mary McAleese met with the families of two Limerick men who were electrocuted at the wake of a 21-year-old local man during her visit to Limerick today.

FORMER Fine Gael TD Micheal Finucane has revealed he was once abducted by the IRA in Limerick over 14 years ago.