Retail spending in Dublin’s city centre could collapse if planned new traffic restrictions are introduced. The Irish Parking Association has warned that city centre businesses face a 24% drop in revenue, if plans to ban traffic from key routes go ahead.

Footfall on Dublin’s leading shopping streets is higher this year than last year, but is still far short of the levels reached during the boom-time peak 10 years ago, according to new research.

More than 1,100 workers at the southeast’s largest private sector employer are expected to vote early next week on a series of cuts which would see almost 200 of their number losing their jobs.

Limerick City and County Council chief executive Conn Murray is finalising the setting up of a new company called ‘Innovate Limerick’ which will drive the Limerick 2030 economic plan for the city, the Irish Examiner has learned.

The reopening last night of a historic Limerick church has been hailed by heritage groups.

Nama has appointed a receiver to a series of companies controlled by Limerick developer Robert Butler.

The Special Criminal Court today refused bail to a Dublin man facing a firearms and IRA membership charge.

The body of a man, believed to be aged in his late 50s or early 60s, was found at a flat on Wickham St in Limerick this morning.

The man whose body was found in Cork city centre this morning had only discharged himself from hospital a few hours earlier.