Cyclists take the slow lane in Cork, Limerick, and Galway with journeys far below original estimates

A 71-year-old grandmother is one of some 2,700 students celebrating Junior Certificate results in Limerick yesterday.

Dublin has gone green for Patrick’s Day, with festivities culminating in a street party tomorrow, expected to attract more than 500,000 spectators. 

A schoolteacher, mugged by a violent criminal, picked herself off the ground and chased her attacker to recover a handbag, a court in Limerick heard yesterday.

Musical history will be made tomorrow when the largest music project of Limerick City of Culture is finally unveiled.

Despite being sneered at by food critics, a carvery is still the first choice of many looking for a hot lunch. But all carveries are not the same, with quality and the menus on offer varying hugely.

The announced closure of an all-girls secondary school in Limerick poses a massive challenge on the already stressed placement system, a former mayor of the city has warned.

A giant St Patrick led more than 4,000 colourful participants in Limerick’s parade.

WORLD famous authors, with more than 50 million sales to their names, have joined forces with Limerick city students to produce a unique literacy and enterprise project.

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WHEN he was still a political greenhorn Cork’s Fianna Fáil powerhouse Joe Walsh offered Micheál Martin advice: “You should be prepared for the long road and the long term”.

AT age 50 you are now deemed to be “elderly” ... at least if you live in Limerick.

MOVES are under way to find a compromise between councillors and city hall management over proposals to provide a dedicated bus lane on Limerick’s busiest city route.

LIMERICK City Council last night deferred a vote on a motion to block the development of a €4.9 million bus corridor in the city.

RESIDENTS opposed to a new bus lane being developed on a key Limerick city route are expected to pack a specially convened meeting of Limerick City Council this afternoon, when a vote will be taken.

FAILURE to introduce controversial new bus routes in Limerick would have a negative impact on the future economic competitiveness of the city and region, the local Chamber of Commerce has warned.

NEW battle-lines were drawn yesterday between the Fine Gael-controlled Limerick City Council and council management over a proposed bus lane from Dooradoyle to the city centre.

BUS Éireann estimates the opening of a new green bus route on a busy Limerick city two-mile route could generate, through increased fares, hundreds of thousands of euro every year.

DESPITE trenchant opposition by residents, Limerick City Council is pressing ahead with the development of bus lanes from the county boundary at the Crescent Shopping Centre in Dooradoyle into the city centre through Ballinacurra and O’Connell Avenue.

LIMERICK City Council has reiterated its determination to open up more bus lanes into the city centre, despite strong resistance from resident groups.

NEAR schools, shops and the city centre too, is the €150,000, compact, three-bed home, number two, O’Connell Avenue, in Cork’s Turner’s Cross.

A COMMUNITY has been shattered and devastated at the death of a Limerick school teacher in a freak accident, mourners heard yesterday.

THE school teacher who died after a freak accident in which a tree branch fell on her as she walked on a Limerick street, had only recently got married, it emerged yesterday.

A WOMAN died yesterday after being struck by a falling limb of a tree as she walked along a Limerick street.

BATTLE lines are being drawn in Limerick by residents and the city council over the controversial extension of bus lanes into the city centre from the south side of the city.

OPINIONS on the Good Friday opening of Limerick pubs ranged from “sensible” to “scurrilous” among worshippers arriving for the 3pm Passion and Veneration of the Cross ceremony at St Joseph’s Church in the city centre.

THE funeral will take place on Monday of Eileen Martin, the mother of Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin TD, who died yesterday.

Pubs in Limerick have been receiving calls from Cork, Westmeath and Clare to establish what time they were opening at today.

LIMERICK’S International Band Parade and Competition next Sunday has attracted almost 600 musicians from marching bands who will travel from the US, Germany, Africa and Northern Ireland.

EMBATTLED Bishop of Limerick Dr Donal Murray was applauded yesterday in his own diocese after he apologised for his handling of child sex allegations.

A NORTH Corkman whose body was found in his former council flat in Limerick yesterday may have been dead for six months.

A CALL was made yesterday for a controversial bus lane scheme to be put on hold in Limerick until the planned new Shannon tunnel is completed.

A LIMERICK pharmacist is seeking a High Court injunction today preventing the Health Service Executive (HSE) from reducing payments made to him under the community drugs schemes.

LIMERICK City Council and residents living by a busy traffic route are on a collision course over a proposed dedicated bus route.

A LARGE crowd turned out for the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All Ireland Schools quiz second round heat, which took place at the Quality Hotel, Limerick.

A JUDGE yesterday rejected the evidence of a consultant psychiatrist that a Nigerian man she is treating was fit to plead to a number of charges.

SECRET correspondence between two Limerick children and Santa has been discovered in a chimney — 78 years on and long after they had passed away.

IT WILL be their third Christmas without a beloved mother and wife but still no one has been held accountable for her death.

AN investigation was demanded last night into the public funding of a school bus that excludes Catholic students attending a Limerick Protestant school.

Two non-nationals have been charged at a special court sitting following a major seizure of heroin in Limerick.

Gardaí in Limerick are questioning three men who were arrested following a major seizure of heroin in the city.

A NEW club for men over 50 has been set up in Limerick.