The Samaritans‘ new Twitter App is somewhat offputting for an organisation with confidentiality as a core value. I’m sure they mean well but this is too like drone technology. Please take it back Samaritans.

The Samaritans‘ new Twitter App is somewhat offputting for an organisation with confidentiality as a core value. I’m sure they mean well but this is too like drone technology. Please take it back Samaritans.

I write in support of the recent call by the Immigrant Council of Ireland (Irish Examiner, June 16) for the introduction of sex buyer laws in Ireland. The current legislative framework — Criminal law (Sexual Offences) Act, 1993 — is hopelessly outdated.

The deadline for the payment of property tax and outstanding household charges has been extended until Wednesday, following a surge of calls to the Revenue helpline and online payment system.

Russian president Vladimir Putin says the referendum in Crimea was held “in full accordance with democratic procedures”. To win with 97% of the vote is no mean achievement.

THE night before, Pat O’Connell couldn’t sleep.

In his usual bombastic style, Minister of Justice Alan Shatter tells the Dáil that his new legislation on mandatory reporting “applies to all persons, to all organisations and to all sectors of society.

An injury to talisman Joe Canning took the gloss off Limerick IT’s impressive Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final victory in Moylish yesterday.

Honours even at the end of a first-round Fitzgibbon Cup derby that never got off the ground at UL yesterday.

A LOT of local history comes with Dungarvan’s Mountain View House – almost 200 years.

LIMERICK traders have held crisis talks with the city council as plummeting business has left some with not enough money to pay their commercial rates.

A MAJOR publication on the history of Limerick was launched in the city’s Georgian Quarter last night by Mayor Kevin Kiely.

A MAJOR publication on the history of Limerick was launched in the city’s Georgian Quarter last night by Mayor Kevin Kiely.

Quel Esprit staked a big claim for Cheltenham Festival honours with an effortless victory at Cork.

THE letter from Dr Florence Craven on SIPTU’s proposal to build a new headquarters on the site of the existing one (October 19) reminds me of the cartoon in Dublin Opinion at the time the present edifice was built.

FOREMAN is set to make his debut for new trainer Charlie Swan in Sunday’s O’Connell Logistics Hilly Way Chase at Cork.

Foreman is set to make his debut for new trainer Charlie Swan in Sunday’s O’Connell Logistics Hilly Way Chase at Cork.

SEVERAL thousand protesters calling for improved health services are expected to march on the Dáil today.

Two men who took part in a row that left a Lithuanian man with horrific injuries were today jailed for three years.

RISING star War Of Attrition can advertise his Cheltenham Gold Cup credentials by landing the John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown tomorrow.

GARDAÍ investigating the death of a Lithuanian man in Dublin last month hope to make a breakthrough in the coming weeks.