The new appointees are Brendan Lenihan, with expertise in financial planning and management, and Fergus O’Kelly, Clinical Professor in general practice and family medicine.

THE Southill area of Limerick often gets bad publicity but it received a boost yesterday when it was announced one of its own had been named best student at his graduation.

A Romanian man who admitted having sex with a 14-year-old Irish girl has been allowed withdraw his guilty plea at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court as a result of this week’s Supreme Court judgement.