AS darkness last night enveloped the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Newcastle West, candles flickered in a symbolic embrace of two communities in Limerick and Cork devastated by grief.

PEOPLE living in one of the worst affected areas of the Newcastle West floods are calling on Limerick County Council to review a decision to grant planning permission for a leading housing development for lands that were flooded.

Gardaí in Limerick are investigating a serious sexual assault on a woman overnight.