The rapid spread of Covid-19 around the globe has led to a flood of announcements from drug companies touting potential treatments for the still incurable disease.

Perennial poll topper Willie O'Dea has dismissed claims in local media that he was not fully behind his running mate on the Fianna Fáil ticket, Cllr James Collins.

A project to develop 16 houses in Pallaskenry, Co Limerick, has raised 100% of the €2.4m in funding that it pitched out to peer-to-peer investors just a few weeks ago.

Barbara-Anne Richardson says Heineken’s decade-long commitment to being a sustainable and green brewer is what convinced her to join the firm, writes Pádraig Hoare

A fraud or theft in relation to procurement at Mid-West training centres might have cost an education and training board €150,000.

Detectives are investigating if the shooting dead of a gangland criminal at the weekend is linked to a local feud or was a revenge attack for a botched double murder last August.

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Limerick, long a manufacturing hub, is now on the cusp of becoming a powerhouse in the biopharma field. Ivor Downey tells Pádraig Hoare about US giant Regeneron’s swiftly-expanding mission in Raheen

They’re calling it the Christmas-Tree Formation, but it’s no longer typical of any moves gracing football stadiums.

Gardaí have appealed to two women who might have been in the vicinity of a fatal stabbing at the weekend to come forward.

An accountant who carried out what a judge said was a cold, calculated, cunning fraud using his professional skills has avoided jail.

A two-year-old boy who has sued over the circumstances of his birth at Midwestern Regional Maternity Hospital, Limerick, has settled his High Court action with an interim payout of €1.75m for the next two years.

One company cheque was made out for the purchase of a piano for his family by an accountant who defrauded a hospitality business.

Career opportunities in the engineering industries in the Mid-West will be showcased at an event in Limerick next week.

It was an audacious multimillion-euro plan to plunder some of the last reserves of rhino horn and carved jade items that spanned the globe.

Des O’Sullivan says Adam’s sale includes highly collectible chess sets.

Ian Fitzhenry can thank an alert taximan and a garda patrol crew. Ian, a student at Sexton Street CBS, almost didn’t sit English Paper 1, on the first day of the Leaving Cert, in June, because he misread the bus timetable.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan insisted the Government was not trying to “buy” the next election as he revealed the October budget would showcase a €1.5bn tax cut and spending boost.

One of the world’s leading medical technology companies is expected to announce the creation of hundreds of jobs with a multi-million euro investment in a new global centre of excellence in Co Cork.

A homeless man has died in the home of a Limerick priest who had given him refuge.

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After being awoken in the middle of the night, a terrified homeowner was confronted by a man wielding an axe, a court heard.

A woman rearing her family on a widow’s pension since her husband was killed in a workplace accident 14 years ago has failed in a bid to have a €795,000 damages award paid out to her under the State-backed Insurance Compensation Fund.

Julia Walsh spends her birthdays wondering where the body of her son Des lies.

The National Lottery has confirmed where the two winning tickets of last night's Lotto jackpot were sold.

Local politics along the banks of the Shannon is entering uncharted waters due to the unification of the city and county to form a united assembly.

Gardaí have appealed for information after the father of Ireland and Leinster rugby scrum half Eoin Reddan was held up and robbed by at least one man in his home last night.

A €220m development for the former Dell site in Limerick can proceed following a decision by An Taisce to withdraw its appeal with An Bord Pleanála.

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A sprawling Irish criminal network has become synonymous with the lucrative trade in stolen rhino horn.

A school in Co. Limerick is reportedly looking at changing the date for its First Holy Communion, because it clashes with a One Direction concert.

Fearing angry clashes at the FG annual conference in Limerick next weekend, gardaí have drawn up a major security plan and the South Court Hotel venue in Raheen will be a no-go area for non-delegates.

Five homes and an office were raided yesterday as part of a European-wide operation against a notorious Irish crime network.

Dozens of homes have been raided in an international police investigation into the theft of valuable rhino horns.