Southerly winds will strengthen during Saturday reaching mean speeds of 50-65kmh with gusts reaching 90-110kmh, according to Met Éireann.

Joe McNamee talks to industry leaders about the steady rise in US-Irish tourism

The Department of Justice has confirmed the closure of the Mount Trenchard direct provision centre in Foynes, Co Limerick at the end of next month.

The Limerick man has been hailed as one of the outstanding referees of his generation.

The high-flying spectacular, which will feature jet displays and wing walkers, is expected to attract up to 100,000 spectators to Cork harbour when it does go ahead.

Residents in a quiet corner of Co Limerick now live in fear of dangerous heavy traffic caused by thousands of motorists who use the neighbourhood boreens as a 'rat run' to avoid Adare, one of the country's worst bottlenecks.

Construction industry experts have slammed the poor delivery of major public infrastructure in the southern region.

Meanwhile, Brendan Howlin said that the information in the leaked documents had been objective.

All four Naval Service Reserve (NSR) motor launches have been decommissioned due to their age, while the strength of the back-up force has significantly decreased and is desperately short of young people.

A PROFILE site with 140m frontage to Limerick City’s Dock Road, and in an area earmarked as an economic development hub with docklands focus has been put to market for the Shannon Foynes Port Company.

The €300m Adare bypass is expected to be fast-tracked as a result of the Ryder Cup announcement.

The three women who died in the crash in Co Limerick have been named locally.

IF you happen to be contemplating a global circumnavigation by yacht, there are not many better places to consider the fascinating journey than Foynes Island, Co Limerick.

The industry group for offshore drilling firms is warning against moves to ban oil and gas exploration, as an exploratory drilling rig prepares to move into position in the Porcupine Basin off Kerry within days.

A charity has deployed its latest rapid response medical jeep to help save lives in North Kerry and West Limerick.

On its 75th anniversary of the American Note, in a two-day report Ryle Dwyer examines events leading to the international distortion of Ireland’s role in WWII

Next Tuesday marks the origins of an American conspiracy to depict Éamon de Valera and his government as morally indifferent to the outcome of the Second World War. Historian and author Ryle Dwyer argues that false claims about neutrality have produced possibly the greatest distortion of Irish history since independence.

With just over five weeks remaining to the start of Volvo Cork Week, organisers at the Royal Cork Yacht Club have called on south coast crews not to delay entry and support the event that aims be a highlight of the 2018 sailing season.

QF9 was the call sign used by the Australian airline Qantas earlier this week for the first non-stop flight between Perth and London.

The response of other trade blocs to America’s move will hurt, writes John Whelan.

I was chuffed (that’s not ‘choughed’, now, and birds are few in this column) to hear the virtues of voles much lauded on the Living the Wildlife RTÉ 1 programme on Tuesday last week, writes Damien Enright.

Although the Irish coffee was not specifically invented for the Christmas period, it has quickly become the traditional pick-me-up drink for many during these dark, cold and dreary evenings.

He’s on the sideline now. There was a time not so long ago when Dara Ó Cinnéide was the tip of the spear as An Ghaeltacht collected Kerry senior titles and made it to the big show on St Patrick’s Day, but now the prolific forward is part of the club’s management team.

Coming hot on the heels of last week’s staging of a modern classic sailing trophy at Kinsale, another 40-year old design is experiencing renewal and re-growth in Ireland after a successful national championship in Sligo.

Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe tells how the proposed Foynes-Limerick road scheme may, after years of frustration, offer relief of a bypass for the town Adare.

The natural gas pipeline which is being brought from Foynes in Co Limerick to Listowel in Co Kerry should be extended to Tralee, a councillor has said.

Kerry is to be linked to the natural gas network as the pipeline is extended from Foynes in Co Limerick to Listowel in a €20m project.

A tragedy similar to the deaths of a family of five in Buncrana last March could happen at Foynes pier in the Shannon estuary if the pier remains in its current state and is not regularly cleaned, a senior member of the port town’s search and rescue service warned.

A 100-year-old Clonmel man who started driving back in 1930 at the wheel of his father’s Ford Model-T has gone electric.

An interdepartmental flooding report, rejected due to inadequate recommendations, will not delay major flood reliefs projects.

A number of local bodies have joined forces to promote six deepwater marine investment opportunities along the Shannon Estuary.

People living in the River Shannon’s flood-risk zones have been urged to engage in the state’s largest-ever flood map consultation process.

The number of passengers on cruise ships visiting Cork broke the 100,000 figure for the first time ever last year.

A Lithuanian man has appeared in court, charged in connection with an incident in which another man was shot by a garda, last week, writes David Raleigh.

Sixty ultra-marathons in 60 days — no bother for a man who only completed his first regular marathon three years ago.

Irish Cement has launched a High Court challenge against an order allowing the compulsory purchase of its lands by the harbour at Foynes, Co Limerick.