THE demand to grow miscanthus cane, otherwise known as elephant grass, has increased dramatically in Munster and Galway in the past three months, according to JHM Crops, based at Kilfinny, Adare, Co Limerick.

A CO Limerick community has paid out over €200,000 for bottled water since the local supply was declared unsafe last October.

MORE than 250 households in west Limerick today enter their sixth month having to boil drinking water due to an ongoing health scare.

INFANTS attending crèches were among those most at risk of E coli infection, public health specialists investigating Ireland’s largest recorded E coli 0157 outbreak have found.

PEOPLE in four west Limerick parishes are having to boil all drinking water over Christmas due to an ongoing health scare.

MORE than 250 households in West Limerick are still having to boil drinking water following an outbreak of the E coli 0157 infection last month.

A LIMERICK couple whose daughter died after an operation was postponed due to a nursing shortage relived their nightmare last night when their second-born baby girl became ill.

MORE THAN two heart operations for seriously ill children were cancelled every month this year at Our Lady’s Hospital in Crumlin, a report has revealed.

SINCE July 1997, the Department of Health has commissioned a minimum of 121 reports/working groups/review groups/expert groups to assess areas of the health service.

AN only child, two-year-old Róisín had undergone all the final preparations for surgery, when the operation was cancelled.