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

A mother who had been recovering from breast cancer yesterday relived, along with her husband and their four young children, a night of terror when an armed gang burst into their rural home in Co Limerick.

THE baby boy born to a 34-year-old mother who died while giving birth at Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, on Sunday, remains in a critical condition.

RAYMOND CLARKE (Dan Morrissey/Carrick Wheelers) will wear the race leader’s yellow jersey when Rás Mumhan leaves Killorglin today on the first of the three road stages.