Newly crowned WBO Middleweight champion Andy Lee has returned home to a hero’s welcome.

A place where children once went wild with delight is now being turned into a retreat of quiet contemplation.

The meaning of sport? Is it a modern manifestation of tribal and territorial warfare?

A 10% cut in Cork City Council’s commercial rates would do little to help struggling businesses, the city manager has insisted.

CORK Cine Club’s latest programme runs from Oct 11-Dec 13 at its new venue, St John’s Central College in Cork city. With screenings of art house films and documentaries every Thursday night, the season kicks off with Even The Rain, directed by Iciar Bollain. This socially aware film is about a production team in Bolivia making a controversial film about Christopher Columbus. Meanwhile, a local uprising against water rates takes place.

For the right buyer, No 2’s renovation will be satisfying and gratifying, writes Tommy Barker

“ASTOUNDING” — that was the verdict of Malachy McCourt as he walked back into his family’s impoverished childhood, as depicted in Angela’s Ashes.

A MIX of drink and food with a strong dollop of Killinaskully humour is proving a winning summer cocktail with tourists and locals alike in Limerick.

THE Aviva Stadium and more than 30 other architectural wonders have been toppled by a tent-like structure which shelters Limerick’s historic Milk Market.

THOUSANDS of miniature terracotta clay figures — including one shaped by Taoiseach Enda Kenny — will be placed in Limerick’s City Hall in a tribute to murdered Shane Geoghegan and all innocent victims of violence.

A RULING by An Bord Pleanála to uphold an objection to expand Limerick’s Crescent Shopping Centre will cost up to 400 retail jobs, it was claimed yesterday.

A SCHOOLBOY aged 14 was found wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying a knife when he was arrested early yesterday in Limerick’s St Mary’s Park.

Gardaí in Limerick are investigating a gun attack on house in the St Mary's Park area of the city early this morning.

A LAWYER yesterday denounced a raid on his offices by members of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and Revenue as a “total intrusion” of a solicitor-client relationship.

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The Minister for Justice today applied to the Central Criminal Court in Dublin for a transcript of the trial of a Portuguese man who was jailed for life for the murder of a young female trainee manager in Limerick’s Jurys Inn in 2002.