THE Mayor of Limerick Cllr Kevin Kiely has sent a get-well message to Limerick-born, Frank McCourt, whose international blockbuster Angela’s Ashes won him a Pulitzer and who is seriously ill with skin cancer.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has requested a personal briefing from the Garda commissioner on the gangland crime problem in Limerick following the murder of Shane Geoghegan.

A PARISH priest made an impassioned plea for peace yesterday at the funeral of a Limerick murder victim.