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A sister of an Irishman who died after an attack in the US has spoken publically of her loss for the first time since the incident, saying his death would leave footprints across their lives forever.

The children at the centre of an American court custody battle prayed by their father’s body as it lay in repose yesterday in Limerick.

Family and friends are continuing to comfort Jason Corbett’s two children as the removal of his remains takes place in Limerick this evening.

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Limerick man Jason Corbett is to be laid to rest on Wednesday alongside his “soulmate” and mother of his two children, who were at the centre of a bitter custody battle in the US.

Amid conflicting reports about their whereabouts, the two Limerick children at the centre of a bitter custody battle in North Carolina were last night believed to have been on their way to Ireland.

“The kids are coming home” — Marian Fitzpatrick sang out the message the country had waited for, shortly after she got word from North Carolina that her grandchildren, Jack, 10, and Sarah, 8, were to be brought back to Ireland following a tortuous custody battle.

The parents of a young man killed in a hit-and-run in New York two years ago are to pay for the costs of bringing a man’s body home to his family.

The foreign affairs minister was last night urged to intervene in a custody battle involving two Limerick children. They are in the care of a woman in the US who has been questioned by police about a head wound which claimed the life of their father.

The sister of a Limerick man found dead at his home in America last weekend has said she will not return to Ireland without her brother and his two children.

Protestors were removed by Gardaí after they blocked the Minister for Health's car as he arrived at University Hospital Limerick to open a new €40m critical care block today.

From the house on Janesboro height My father recalled hearing hunters shooting For snipe in fields around Parnell Street.

A teenager was accused of breathtaking arrogance, ignorance, and a lack of human feeling by a judge over parking his car across two disabled spaces.

A woman in her 40s has died in a house fire overnight in Limerick.

The Army bomb disposal squad has made safe a War of Independence-era grenade in Co Limerick.

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A husband and father was laid to rest at the weekend following his death from legionnaires’ disease.

A retired Limerick man has died from legionnaires’ disease which he caught when he and his wife went for a meal in a hotel in Chicago during a visit to the US last month.

As the funeral of Limerick taxi driver Anthony McMahon takes place today, it has emerged that prior to opening fire on gardaí on Monday night, he had left a suicide note.

A female garda sergeant fell on the roadway as she and her colleague ran from crazed gunman Anthony McMahon on Monday night near Newport, Co Tipperary.

Taximan Anthony Mc-Mahon who shot himself after firing at gardaí on Monday night was said to have been very agitated in recent days over a family matter.

Two men and two women have been arrested over three Limerick murders.

THE population of the four estates in the Limerick regeneration programme has fallen from 12,000 five years ago to 8,000, according to the head of the regeneration agency.

TWO petrol bombs found stashed in the front garden of a house in Southill were intended for an attack on the nearby home of a key state witness due to give evidence against people in an organised crime trial, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

A NEWLY ordained priest is hoping his life experience as a husband, father and grandfather will give him a greater understanding of his parishioners.

A MEMBER of the naval service who died in a road accident on Sunday afternoon was buried yesterday with full military honours.

AN initiative in Limerick will see repairs being carried out to houses occupied by the elderly and disabled people.

LIMERICK criminals waged a reign of intimidation on the family of a man found by gardaí carrying drugs belonging to the gang.

Republic of Ireland manager, Giovanni Trapattoni, has named a 24-man squad to face Australia in Thomond Park on Wednesday, August 12.

REPUBLIC of Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni will today name his squad to face Australia next month at Thomond Park.

Parts of Limerick are without water this morning after a main water pipe burst.

SIX people, including a 16-year-old, were being questioned by Limerick gardaí last night in connection with the gangland murder of James Cronin whose body was found in a shallow grave on April 7.

A LOOK at life in Southill over a span of more than 40 years encapsulated in a booklet was launched yesterday by the Mayor of Limerick, Cllr Ger Fahy.

A SENIOR garda has dismissed claims in a Sunday newspaper that gardaí prevented a gun attack at a recent Limerick feud funeral.

A MAN charged with one of the two recent Limerick feud murders, yesterday complained he was being held under 23-hour lock-up in prison.

CITIZENS of Limerick need to be on the alert as danger is around them, a priest warned yesterday at the funeral of the latest feud victim.

TONY QUINN, 20, of Seán Heuston Place, Limerick, says Lent means giving something up.

AN ISPCA inspector prevented youths tossing two kittens into a Hallowe’en bonfire.

A murder probe was launched tonight by gardaí investigating the death of a man in Limerick.

CITIZENS of the country’s three main cities had new lord mayors elected last night.

LIVERPOOL’S newest fan has arrived in Limerick just in time for her cousin Steve Finnan’s big night.

Residents in some of Limerick’s troubled housing estates will no longer have to turn directly to gardai in the battle against anti-social behaviour.

A PUBLIC house security man was shot and wounded in Limerick last night.