Ireland’s oldest city is to get a €10m facelift to make it more “people-centred” and to create world-class public spaces at its heart.

A ‘naked thief’ created mayhem in holding cells at a courthouse yesterday after prison officers brought him chicken nuggets instead of a snack box for lunch.

Gardaí closed off a street in Limerick after reports that a man had barricaded himself into a building with a child hostage.

Gardaí are at the scene of a stand-off in Limerick city.

TRAFFIC in Wexford town came to a virtual standstill yesterday afternoon as irate taxi and coach drivers, who say they were working for as little as €5 an hour, took to the street in a go-slow protest.