Gardaí have appealed for witnesses, particularly motorists with dashcams, as they investigate a road traffic collision in which a horse was injured during an illegal sulky race in Co Limerick.

Facilities may only be one small step towards sporting success, but many in athletics are in celebration mode after various projects took a giant leap towards becoming reality.

Children as young as six from visiting Traveller families are allowed to “run riot” through the streets of Rathkeale during the Christmas/New Year holiday period, a meeting of the town’s joint policing committee heard.

Newcastle West are into the Limerick SFC final following a 2-10 to 1-7 victory over champions Adare at Mick Neville Park in Rathkeale.

Over €4,000 in donations has been raised to go towards the cats medical bills.

Gardaí said the victim was held up by the assailant after alighting from a bus in the early hours of last Monday morning.

The Fine Gael Director of Elections for the Mayoral Plebiscite in Limerick has hit back at criticism from a poll-topping colleague about the party’s handling of the matter.

A charity has deployed its latest rapid response medical jeep to help save lives in North Kerry and West Limerick.

Vacancies in commercial premises remain “stubbornly high” around the country with more than one in 10 buildings unoccupied, a report from property database GeoDirectory has said.

Set up just 18 months ago, rapid-build firm Horizon has set its sights far and wide, writes Trish Dromey

The National Commercial Vacancy Report for Q2 2018, carried out by GeoDirectory, claims that commercial vacancy rates nationally have fallen to 13.1%. This is a drop of 0.4% from the same period last year.

The heatwave is not over yet, with temperatures expected to hit 30C again later this week.

Punching in the best times on every stage Ballylickey’s Keith Cronin and his Killarney co-driver Mikie Galvin took their new Hyundai i20 R5 to victory in the Rathkeale House Hotel Circuit of Munster Rally.

For the Cronin brothers, Keith and Daniel, Sunday’s Rathkeale House Hotel Circuit of Munster Rally in west Limerick has different agendas.

A man had a miraculous escape after his car was impaled with a large rod in a horrific two-car collision, in Co Limerick. Wednesday.

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Eleven people have been arrested as part of an ongoing child sexual abuse investigation.

A garda and a civilian were both taken to hospital as a precaution after their cars were involved in a crash today, gardaí said.

The body of Willie Lynch has been removed from his house in the village of Pallaskenry, Co Limerick this afternoon.

The scene of a rear-ending collision on a minor Co Limerick road resembled a scene from “an emergency Isis attack” with three fire tenders, two ambulances, and gardaí called out, a judge said.

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The removal of an ambulance from Millstreet will have a knock-on effect beyond the town and its hinterland and beyond to other areas that were serviced by the the service.

A brother of a farmer accused of shooting another farmer, over a right of way linking their lands, has lodged a €3,000 surety to have the accused released on bail.

A “feud” between two farmers over “a small dirt track” linking their farms led to one man shooting the other and killing his dog, a court heard on Saturday.

A "feud" between two farmers over “a small dirt track” linking their farms, led to one man shooting the other and killing his dog, a court has heard today, writes David Raleigh.

If you’re all at sea about a theme for your interior look this summer, head for Aldi which has some great ‘Coastal Look’ accessories coming into stores next Thursday, June 15.

The Rathkeale House Hotel Circuit of Munster on Sunday marks the halfway point of the eight round Triton Showers National Rally Championship. However, it also contains several subplots including preparation for the next rounds of the British and Irish Tarmac Championships and also forms part of the Top Part West Coast regional series.

A garda handwriting expert told Limerick Circuit Court yesterday she found strong evidence indicating that the signature on the will of a bachelor farmer was not his.

A man aged 82 whose body was found by a home help, died by suicide, it has emerged.

A punch thrown by a “big powerful rugby player” had such force that the brain of his victim bounced from side to side inside the skull and only surgery at University Hospital Cork saved his life, a court heard.

A man was kicked and assaulted on a roadway where he lay injured after being knocked down by a car.

Gardaí will have to go to court today if they wish to extend the period of detention of a Lithuanian man arrested in the planned operation on Wednesday morning in which another Lithuanian man was shot and wounded.

Two separate investigations have been launched after a shot was discharged during an undercover Garda operation targeting Eastern European gangs.

A woman was floored by an “indestructible” boxing machine while socialising in a Co Limerick nightclub with her boyfriend, a court heard.