Three alleged Limerick burglars fled from a rural Clare farm house after discovering that the sole occupant was a man in his 90s asleep in the home.

Four Limerick men have been charged in connection with a burglary at a home in Ennis, County Clare.

A man was yesterday jailed for two and a half years after pleading guilty to possession of a pipebomb that was thrown into a house containing five children.

ALTHOUGH Isobel Butler knew the River Poddle ran underground near her home in Harold’s Cross, she never realised how close it was to her property.

Army bomb disposal teams made safe two viable explosive devices in Dublin and Limerick overnight.