“There were a few moments on Saturday when I thought I would never see my unborn child.”

The outcome of a probe into the deaths of two workers who drowned when carrying out repairs on Thomond Bridge in Limerick will determine whether gardaí will launch an inquiry.

A fleet of ‘Banner Bangers’ was on parade in Ennis yesterday ready to lead the mass exodus from Clare today to Dublin for the All-Ireland final hurling replay.

A COUPLE of weeks ago on this page I wrote about lizards and I mentioned that slow worms, a species of legless lizard, had been illegally introduce to the Burren about 20 or 25 years ago and that I was curious to know whether they still survived there.

A CARE home for four troubled teenagers, which was forced to relocate from Limerick city to rural Clare because of past residents’ involvement with Limerick feuding families, cost more than €1 million last year.

THE ordination of two seminarians this summer in the Diocese of Killaloe “will provide an extraordinary morale boost to priests in the diocese”, its director of vocations said yesterday.

RESIDENTS remain under siege on a regional road linking north Tipperary and Limerick despite government assurances the new Shannon Tunnel would improve their quality of life.

Anxious communities along the banks of the River Shannon were tonight bracing themselves for devastating floods after waters reached record heights.

RESIDENTS were bracing themselves last night as the lower Shannon threatened to burst its banks for a second day and with Co Clare under a severe flood warning.

A €12m emergency fund for flooding victims was tonight dismissed as too little to cope with the devastation.

TWO men were arrested in Limerick yesterday in connection with the murder of Darren Bennett last month.

VALUE for money short breaks made the Mid-West the country’s biggest tourism winner last year.