Michael Clifford joins Grace O’Sullivan, the Green Party candidate for Ireland South in the upcoming European elections, as she takes to the campaign trail on Shannonside.

Gardaí have confirmed that they are investigating a possible hate or racist motive behind an alleged assault on two Muslim men in Limerick.

Latest: A parcel bomb found at a Limerick postal depot appears identical to a series of devices sent to Great Britain, gardaí have said.

Éamonn Cregan is looking through a window in the Hunt Museum Café, out at the Shannon running away with itself, a dull August afternoon rising merely to scurries, writes PM O’Sullivan

Providing a home for popular if somewhat discordant sporting occasions, from soccer to cycling, rugby to hurling, Gaelic football to greyhound racing.

A woman who was to face trial for the murder of a father of three in Limerick was found dead yesterday morning.

A woman who was to face trial for the murder of a father of three in Limerick was found dead today.

A driver has had a miraculous escape after the cab of his truck exploded into a fireball and "melted" into the road this afternoon.

The brewer’s new ad sparked a six-month search for 36-year-old images, says Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

Gardaí are investigating a series of graffiti attacks on buildings in Limerick City, which seemingly targeted the gardaí, the media, and the Health Service Executive (HSE).

The trustees of Coillte’s pension plan have staked a claim to €20m worth of state-owned forestry following a secret settlement to their High Court dispute.

Artistic endeavour is reaching such heights in Limerick that planning permission has been sought to make way for one tall event.

A woman in her forties - who was arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of a Dublin man in Limerick - has been released without charge.

A woman in her forties is being detained by gardaí in Limerick in connection with the murder of 65-year-old Paddy Redmond in the city last month.

Gardaí in Limerick have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of Paddy Redmond last month.

Gardaí in Limerick are investigating a fatal stabbing overnight.

The former landmark Ard Rí hotel and grounds in Waterford city, bought for a reported €15m in 2006 for a proposed €400m mixed use development, has been put on the market for €750,000.

SEXUAL devices including vibrators, condoms, dozens of blue movies and saucy pictures of girlfriends are among about 15,000 items of lost post which end up in Limerick every week.

A man is understood to be in a critical condition after falling from a high-rise apartment window in Limerick.

MUNSTER rugby players and supporters are organising a series of charity events to support a colleague and friend diagnosed with motor neurone disease last year and to research into the debilitating condition.

THERE are fears one of the country’s top provincial newspapers, the Limerick Leader, will have its operations scaled back if it is printed outside the country by its British owners.

AFTER almost 250 years, the printing of newspapers in Limerick is to end after Johnston Press decided to close down its print works on the Dock Road.

TWO important historical archives with photographs, diaries and documents detailing life in Limerick and the mid-west from the early 20th century went on public display.

An investigation is underway after a 17-year-old girl was found by Gardaí in a suspected brothel in Limerick.

A 17-year-old girl has been taken into care by the HSE after been found by Gardaí in a suspected brothel in Limerick.

Ireland’s traffic & travel information service, AA Roadwatch, is today forecasting that traffic congestion is likely to improve significantly and that the coming ‘traffic season’ will be the lightest that we have had in many years.

In a six-part series appearing all this week, a number of our leading sportswriters reflect on their own favourite haunts and how they’ve changed over the years.

DESPITE trenchant opposition by residents, Limerick City Council is pressing ahead with the development of bus lanes from the county boundary at the Crescent Shopping Centre in Dooradoyle into the city centre through Ballinacurra and O’Connell Avenue.

THE Limerick Tunnel is a public private partnership enterprise which has a 31-year life span from yesterday’s opening.

FOR the second successive year, Sean Buckley dons the captain’s armband on Munster senior football final day.

IRISH rugby star Paul O’Connell is among more than 60 investors pursuing former Irish rugby manager Pat Whelan and Limerick businessman Pat Chesser to recover €13.4m loans provided for a property development at London’s Earls Court.

FIRST things first. The next time Munster play Northampton, in the Heineken Cup quarter-finals, there better not be fog.

WITH apologies to Deputy Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West), may I say, quite simply, this.

ARMY experts say a homemade pipe bomb which had the potential to maim and kill could have gone off as it was being carried through a busy Limerick housing estate by a teenage girl.

A motorcyclist has died after his vehicle and a car were in collision in Limerick this morning.

Up to 150 people are taking part in a massive search operation along the banks of the River Shannon for a 20-year-old man who's been missing since the beginning of the year.

A NUMBER of people were remanded at Limerick City Court yesterday arising out of recent disturbances in Moyross.

A teenager has been hospitalised in Limerick after being stabbed in the back during an attack in the early hours of this morning.

AT last, some good news in these recessionary times.

The final section of Limerick's Shannon tunnel has been sunk into place on the river-bed.

Parts of Limerick are without water this morning after a main water pipe burst.