Clare is the fourth county in this series of best 18 holes in a county. Despite having only 11 courses, the Banner county boasts globally recognised Doonbeg and Lahinch, as well as Dromoland Castle, so it is not lacking in quality. Here’s our imaginary scorecard for the 18 best holes.

Clare is the fourth county in this series of best 18 holes in a county. Despite having only 11 courses, the Banner county boasts globally recognised Doonbeg and Lahinch, as well as Dromoland Castle, so it is not lacking in quality. Here’s our imaginary scorecard for the 18 best holes.

The heartbroken mother of a man missing for 16 years has tragically passed away not knowing what happened to him.

The 2016 Olympic Games have forced the PGA Tour to make one-off changes in their schedule for the 2015-16 season.

A fund to help unemployed workers in the Limerick town of Rathkeale get back to work has crossed its first hurdle, with members of the European Parliament giving it their support. 

A top US medical devices company has chosen Limerick to make its new product, creating 270 high-end graduate jobs.

A €220m development for the former Dell site in Limerick can proceed following a decision by An Taisce to withdraw its appeal with An Bord Pleanála.

Hopes are fading that a missing father-of-three will be found alive after a fishing trip in Lough Ree turned to tragedy, claiming the life of his friend and leaving another man fighting for survival.

Four years after the closure of Dell’s manufacturing plant in Limerick with the loss of 1,900 jobs the devastated site at Raheen Industrial Park is poised for a revival following investment from US pharmaceutical giant Regeneron.

When 27 finance ministers and central bank governors from the EU member states meet in Dublin on Friday, it will be their first paperless deliberation, thanks to Dell and Microsoft.

Young social media users have been urged to act as whistleblowers when they encounter cyberbullying.

A €1M fit-out wraps up this weekend as the covers come off Munster’s largest retail letting — UK giant DFS opens its second Irish store, in the office and retail City Gate Park, Mahon, Cork, this Saturday.

A SERIES of deals and employment is expected to flow at the €70 million City Gate Park, built over the past 18 months in the face of international recession, and where Taoiseach Enda Kenny tomorrow officially opens the 75,000 sq ft stand-alone building bought by Dell/Quest.

An age-old skill being perfected by James Lee is ensuring the imposing Co Limerick village of Adare maintains its picture-postcard image.

Gardaí are today making a fresh appeal for information on a missing Limerick man as the 12th anniversary of his disappearance approaches.

MORE than 1,200 free third-level college places on offer to unemployed people are still unfilled three months after most courses began as part of a Government jobs drive.

A 62-YEAR-OLD woman who had her legs amputated claims her doctor told her on a number of occasions she was suffering from a pain in her back and allegedly discounted complaints about pains in her legs.

LIMERICK Institute of Technology (LIT) is finalising plans for the biggest ever business exhibition and seminar to be held outside of Dublin.

SIGNING on is dehumanising and degrading, there are few incentives to give up welfare benefits and job training courses are a waste of time, according to a survey of unemployed people.

RESEARCHERS in 13 focus groups from the Geary Institute at University College Dublin conducted a nationwide survey of the subjective experiences of the unemployed in 2010.

WHEN it comes to job variety, Limerick man William O’Brien has had a broad career which has spanned training race horses to dealing in discarded women’s fashion.

IT should have been a time for celebration with the birth of a baby boy, instead John and Sheila Malone are struggling to come to terms with a dire diagnosis.

THE Government has been accused of abandoning a once thriving manufacturing town which lost its last major factory yesterday.

WHY is Fine Gael being criticised for removing the Dáil pairing arrangement?

TWO egos crash-landed at Dublin Airport last night leaving 200 jobs dead and 300 more lingering in intensive care.

Tánaiste Mary Coughlan said today that European funding for people in Limerick who lost their jobs in Dell will begin to be drawn down this week and next.

An MEP says the failure by the Government to outline how the EU fund for former Dell workers is going to be spent could jeopardise future funding.

PLANS by Endesa to reduce its workforce by 35 at its electricity generating plant, in north Kerry, were greeted by disappointment in the area yesterday.

THE Irish Red Cross has raised over €300,000 for its flood relief operations.

THERE will be an average of €9,000 in retraining grants available for the unemployed Dell workers, but it will have to be spent within two years.

FORMER workers at the Dell plant in Limerick may have to wait until Christmas for the €14.8 million stimulus package from the European Union.

BY exploiting economic fears, the Yes side changed tack emphatically in 16 months.

MONDAY madness is nothing new in the South of Ireland and so it came to pass yesterday when four members of the Irish team in the recent European Championship were yesterday all eliminated in the third and fourth rounds at Lahinch.

The employment situation in Ireland has been particularly badly affected by the current economic crisis, a new EU survey published today reveals.

THE 370 jobs lost at Element 6 are to follow an overseas route just as the 2,000 wiped out at Dell.

The diamond manufacturer Element Six has announced plans to lay off 370 workers at its facility in the Shannon Industrial Estate.

The EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities was visiting Limerick today for meetings with local community representatives involved in the Moyross Regeneration project and with workers made redundant from the Dell plant.

The first group of employees being made redundant at the Dell plant in Limerick are due to collect their final pay cheques today.

Workers at Dell in Limerick will meet later to decide on their response to the company's redundancy offer.

ANOTHER 130 people are facing the dole after electronics components firm Flextronics confirmed plans to slash its Cork workforce in half.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee, which monitors public spending, last week issued a scathing report on the travel abuses within Fás. The state training agency wrongly allowed executives and board members to travel first class since 1992.

THE Dell fallout has claimed its first major casualty among its supplier companies in Limerick.

The head of the taskforce set up by the Government to tackle rising unemployment in the mid-west says he cannot offer much hope at this stage to people who are losing their jobs.