Rank-and-file gardaí want more armed units to deal with organised crime and the threat posed by the New IRA, as well as better counselling services, more frontline police and improved equipment.

A rare penny-farthing bicycle is among the 460 lots on offer at the annual vintage auction at O’Donovan’s of Newcastlewest at 10am next Saturday. In excellent condition, it dates from c1880 and is estimated at €600-€1,200. There is a first edition of the 1865 Memories of Adare Manor by Caroline, Countess Dunraven (€1,000-€1,800) as well as period furniture and jewellery.

Two children have been injured after a car apparently collided with their buggy in Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick this morning, gardaí said.

A High Court challenge has been brought over a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant an industrial emissions licence to a chicken rearing plant in Co Limerick.

A 29-year-old man's due in court this evening charged after a gun and drugs seizure in County Limerick.

I won’t lie, the first time my wife took me to Ballybunion, I wasn’t blown away, writes Tommy Martin

Kerry U20 manager Jack O’Connor has hit out at the ban on inter-county challenge games, a rule he believes is totally lacking in common sense.

The GAA have been forced to upset their designation of April as a club-only month by staging the Allianz Football League Division 4 final on April 6 or 7.

Latest: A 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of a man in his 30s in Pallaskenry, Co Limerick.

BBQ for a great cause: Sage Restaurant in Midleton will host a Summer BBQ on Monday (July 24) as a fundraiser for the Time for Tilara fund. 

A garda is denying allegations that he punched two women in the face in the early hours of the morning after an argument developed during a drive home, a court has heard.

All seven of Elizabeth and Jim Lenihan’s children have been immersed in sport growing up in Deliga, near Milford.

Gardaí have recovered 11 vehicles and made seven arrests in three operations over two days targeting organised burglary gangs.

SALE TOMORROW

Chambers of Commerce in Cork and Limerick have firmly quashed rumours they are in favour of routing a motorway between the two cities via Mitchelstown.

Friday, July 8

A Polish man who was allegedly found to have a sophisticated cannabis growing operation in a house in a select area of Tralee last Thursday was part of “a foreign national based drug dealing gang from Eastern Europe”, it was claimed yesterday.

Today, 30 June

A postmaster, whose son was kidnapped at gunpoint and taken hostage, has lost his appeal over the subsequent termination of his employment.

Royal Yacht Squadron escorting Queen Victoria to Cork by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson was bought by a private collector from Cobh for €28,000 at Woodward’s auction.

More than 400 jobs are promised by supermarket group Aldi with the opening of seven new stores next year.

In his Newcastlewest play, Kerry writer Dick Walsh is again pushing the ’post-dramatic’ boundaries, writes Padraic Killeen

Carol O’Callaghan offers a handful of good shops for design heads.

Garda manpower resources in the southern region, which covers Cork, Kerry, and Limerick, fell by 2.2% last year with 48 fewer gardaí stationed in the three counties compared to 2013.

A George III style three pod dining table sold for €1,650 at Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill. 

A Victorian horse trap in superb condition is among the offerings at the sale by O’Donovan and Associates in Newcastlewest, Co Limerick on Saturday February 14.

An off-duty garda is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in New Orleans in the US.

There are reports that an off-duty garda has been shot while on holidays in New Orleans.

A woman going shopping last night spotted what turned out to be a pipebomb attached to her family car in Limerick in what is believed to be an escalation of a drugs feud.

The colours are nailed to the mast with this horse farm sale at Coolyroe, Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick.

A local election candidate has called for an inquiry into the manner in which the ombudsman’s office handled his complaint against Limerick County Council.

An independent local election candidate has received the support of six TDs and a number of senators in his bid to have the ombudsman reopen his case against Limerick County Council.

A young cyclist from Waterford raced to the top at the Student Enterprise Awards National Finals in Dublin yesterday with his invention — an upright bike stand.

Two people have been arrested as a result of Garda drink-driving checkpoints in Waterford and Thurles.

ESB management report fewer than 8,000 homes and businesses are still without power this morning, following last week's storms.

Additional manpower has been drafted in from overseas to assist in the mammoth task of restoring power to the thousands of households and businesses still without electricity in the wake of Storm Darwin.