Many parts of the country is bracing itself for further flooding today as yet another Atlantic storm looks set to hit.

With temperatures again nudging 30C yesterday, tour operators confirmed they were feeling the heat with a huge drop-off in last-minute bookings for sun destinations.

Tears and fears turned into a sparkling champagne celebration yesterday for Limerick bride, Stacy Higgins, and her groom, Jamie Hourigan, after their big day reception was saved in the High Court.

LIT Tipperary 1-25 IT Tralee 2-09

ART sales in London over the next fortnight could approach £600 million in value.

MICHEÁL McDERMOTT is set to focus exclusively on the Clare senior footballers in the wake of Monaleen’s exit from the Munster club championship on Sunday.

AN ENGLISH visitor who left Ireland heartbroken after his pet was stolen had a happy return in recent days.

FORMER Clare senior star Niall Gilligan is a major injury doubt for the county’s intermediate team who face Limerick in tonight’s Munster IHC final in Cusack Park, Ennis at 7.30pm.

As anticipated, the two All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals have been fixed for a double header bill at Semple Stadium on Sunday week.

TEAGASC open days on profitable commercial tillage farms could give attendees ideas on how to improve performance and negotiate their way through their current economic challenges.

YESTERDAY’S West Waterford Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Lismore is one that will live long in the memory of teenager Jason Kiely for the 18-year-old amateur from Herbertstown partnered an initial career winner aboard the Patrick Farrell-trained Haile Deadly in the winners of one contest.

IT might have been a little too close for comfort at the finish, but nothing could detract from Na Piarsaigh’s achievement in winning through to their first Live95fm Limerick Senior Hurling Championship final at the fourth attempt in the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

SUNDERLAND boss Roy Keane didn’t hold back when he took a swipe at the WAGs of Premier League players.

THE Limerick team to play Clare in the ESB Munster MHC semi-final qualifier in Cusack Park tonight (6.30pm), shows six changes from the team trounced by Cork in the first round.

Ballylanders 0-9 Monaleen 0-7

St Senan’s 1-9 Athea 0-8

Monaleen 2-8 Newcastle West 2-8

HOLDERS Drom-Broadford, beaten by Athea in the opening series of the Limerick SFC, resumed normal service with a 1-9 to 0-8 win over newcomers St. Senan’s on Saturday.

Monaleen 1-13 Fr Casey's 0-9

THE National Safety Council has warned drivers to slow down following 26 road deaths this month.

Two young men and a young woman have died after the car they were travelling in collided with another vehicle in Co Limerick last night.

Three people died tonight in a road accident in Co Limerick.