Set in the midst of Limerick horse country, this detached property at Knocklong offers a good range of facilities both for horse owners and for their animals.

It was relatively quiet in University Hospital Limerick’s accident and emergency department yesterday morning.

Horses valued at an estimated €1m were killed on a Co Limerick stud farm owned by Qatari interests, after being electrocuted during Storm Darwin.

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

Bryan Cooper’s decision to partner Gigginstown House Stud’s Trifolium, in preference to Mozoltov, reaped a rich dividend in the Grade 1 Frank Ward Solicitors’ Arkle Novice Chase at Leopardstown yesterday.

The emerging force in global bloodstock, Qatar Racing have bought a 100 acre farm in County Limerick to nurture young horses.

LAST MONTH, a 49-year-old Limerick man settled a case he took against the State and number of its agencies, including the gardaí and the DPP. The settlement is believed to be a six-figure sum.

Historically, the market for cooked meats was in bulk product, that was then sliced in the corner shop and the supermarket. This is rapidly changing and the market is now demanding product that is ready sliced and ready to go

The neighbours inthis corner of London won’t shed a tear when the Olympics are over and the Irish go home.

ONE of the country’s largest car-hire firms has reported a significant increase in business this year due to larger number of tourists in the country.

NEW Limerick senior hurling boss Donal O’Grady has invited 80 players to trials on Sunday as he begins the process of selecting his 2011 squad.

A COUNTY Limerick teenager was fighting for his life last night following a road accident in which his close friend died.

The 24 members of the 2009 Limerick senior hurling panel, who are refusing to play under current manager Justin McCarthy, have issued a statement in which they accuse the Limerick County Board and the senior management team of using underhand tactics in an attempt to end the ongoing impasse.

LIMERICK hurlers who refuse to play under manager Justin McCarthy last night sensationally claimed that “a deliberate and concerted effort” is being made to end their resistance.

THE man who swore in Barack Obama as United States president – twice – earlier this year has become the latest major American figure to spend time at the National University of Ireland Galway.

ST BROGAN’S College, Bandon put their Munster A SHC title on the line when they play Roscrea Community College in the final today at Garryspillane/Knocklong (12.30pm).

A TWO-MONTH-OLD baby girl was brought back to church yesterday just days after her christening but it was for a much more sombre occasion.

A MESSAGE of condolence from President Mary McAleese was sent to the family of Oliver Kearney, one of the two men killed in a Co Limerick road accident last Sunday, mourners at his funeral Mass heard yesterday.

THE funeral takes place today of one of the two best friends killed early on Sunday morning in Co Limerick.

Two men have been killed in a crash in Co Limerick.

HUNDREDS of mourners yesterday attended the funeral of a retired couple who died when their car collided with a lorry on the Knocklong/Mitchelstown road.

THE campaign of outgoing Limerick West Fianna Fáil TD John Cregan was left with ministerial egg on its face yesterday.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea was last night at the centre of a bitter row between two Fianna Fáil candidates.

A LIMERICK city gang who terrified two women in a post office raid were arrested by an armed detective after a high-speed chase through country roads.

THE rather horsey name for the south city estate, The Paddocks, on Cork’s Maryborough Hill is not just an affectation.

EVERYWHERE else in Ireland, yesterday was a grey, damp day but not in the vast Garryspillane hinterland, in the villages of Knocklong and Galbally, where many of the Limerick SHC- winning team were born and raised.

UP to 20 workers picketed a building site in Cork city yesterday in protest at not being paid by their employer.

NEVER got the whole motor car thing. Us blokes are supposed to be uniformly fascinated by football, breasts and engines, in that order, but cars leave me cold, couldn’t tell me Lexus from me Lada.

THE name of P P Hogan rings immediate bells within the tightly-knit bloodstock community and without.

A second man has died from injuries sustained in a road accident in Co Limerick on Sunday.

Gardai have named the man who was killed in this morning’s road accident in Limerick.

A man has died after his car hit a wall at Knocklong, Co Limerick.

Investigations have begun into an unusual robbery in Co Limerick, this morning, at a car dealership in Knocklong.