A museum dedicated to the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, housed in his former school in the heart of Limerick city, is set to close next month.

A doctor who works with the homeless and marginalised groups in Limerick city believes the level of suicide among people he offers cares to is now at “frightening levels”.

An elderly pedestrian was injured and a motorist narrowly escaped death when a car careered off a street in Limerick yesterday before nose-diving onto a stairway leading to a cellar restaurant.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions expects that, despite Thursday’s promissory note deal, tens of thousands of people will still turn out for today’s anti-austerity march because of the anger that Ireland is still burdened with a €64bn banking debt.

Tests are being carried out on the body of a man discovered yesterday in Co Clare.