Two neighbouring Limerick schools yesterday joined forces to create a magical production combining sound and silence for a Christmas show.

Gardaí at Roxboro Road are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision involving a motorcycle in Southill, Limerick.

A man has been charged in connection with a shooting in Limerick on Tuesday afternoon.

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after he was shot in the stomach in Limerick.

Old Christians GAA club is situated in the southside of Limerick city, in between the socially deprived and crime stricken areas of Southill and Ballinacurra Weston.

Community groups in the Southill regeneration estate in Limerick have joined forces with gardaí in a new texting initiative launched to help fight crime.

The moment that 11 Pike Rovers players emerge onto the Aviva Stadium turf this afternoon will mark a first in the careers of each and every one of them.

The rows of concrete wreckage which form streets through St Mary’s Park are a stark definition of how the much-vaunted Limerick Regeneration Plan has failed this community, writes Jimmy Woulfe

A parish priest has criticised statutory agencies for failing to act on a report carried out over four years, which highlighted appalling living conditions for children at a Limerick City halting site.

Ricky Hatton brought his considerable expertise and experience to Limerick as he visited a boxing club in the city as part of the Southside Summer Fest.

The sister of a Limerick man found dead at his home in America last weekend has said she will not return to Ireland without her brother and his two children.

A mother who lost her son after an unprovoked attack is leading a fundraising drive to help the family of a Limerick man who died in the US as a result of a violent incident.

For success, Irish rugby captain Niamh Briggs has two simple rules.

Animal-lovers in Limerick have raised more than €3,000 to fund life-saving surgery for a puppy subjected to ‘horrific’ torture by former owners.

As tragic two-year-old Limerick toddler Robert Kelly was ‘waked’ last night, one elderly woman who came to pay her respects and sympathise with his grieving family, remarked: “What has the world come to at all.”

Donal MacIntyre’s TV3 programme Breaking Crime made a valid point about the need to tackle petty youth crime in disadvantaged areas of Limerick but it was not a balanced portrayal of the current feeling in the city, says Robert McNamara.

ESB Networks crews worked late into the night to restore power to homes and businesses in Limerick.

Around 2,000 customers are without electricity in Limerick city.

President Michael D Higgins has said he hopes lessons of doomed and delayed housing regeneration schemes have been learnt.

Limerick’s troubled regeneration plan has left a trail of disillusioned and angry families in its wake.

In the opening weeks of 2008, Mary McAleese travelled to Limerick to give a grand regeneration plan her presidential seal of approval.

Former Limerick mayor John Gilligan has welcomed a planned initiative by the International Federation for Human Rights to seek fundamental rights for deprived parts of the city.

People living in 20 of the most run-down housing complexes in the country have taken a landmark fight for basic living conditions to Europe.

People living in 20 of the most run-down housing complexes in the country have taken a landmark fight for basic living conditions to Europe.

We’ve had mobile libraries and mobile banks.

After being told by a defence lawyer that the State had failed in coming up with alternatives to jail when dealing with young offenders, a judge yesterday ordered a year-long night curfew at home for a troubled Limerick teenager rather than locking him up.

A garda has told how she feared for her life as a speeding car with a 16-year-old youth at the wheel tried to mow her down when she was on foot patrol in Limerick.

It was like a scene straight from a Las Vegas crime caper.

The father of a man killed in an unprovoked attack is to make a direct appeal on television tonight to a person who claims to have information about the killing.

Arsenal plan to give a premiership feeling to young people in Limerick by motivating them through the club’s unique community programme which it is now branching outside London for the time.

Limerick city’s regeneration plan, launched in 2007 with a €3bn goal of transforming four black- spot estates, was reignited yesterday with a revised €250m package over 10 years.

The Housing and Planning Minister has unveiled the Government's €290m euro plan to regenerate Limerick City.

A former hotel worker who is alleged to have been involved in the importation of drugs from Spain was refused bail yesterday at Limerick Circuit Court.

Convicted drug boss Johnny McNamara, the target for the attack which led to the murder of Shane Geoghegan, lived at No 6 Clonmore, Kilteragh, just doors from where Shane shared a house with his partner, Jenna Barry.

The proposed development plan for Limerick seems to emanate from the dreams of planners, and architects, and that could be its downfall.

Ireland rugby Grand Slam hero Niamh Briggs has been hailed for helping steer children living in two of Limerick’s troubled estates away from crime and into sport.

A little dog who suffered horrific injuries, including a broken pelvis and broken back legs, has got back on her feet thanks to the aid of a toy cart.

A gang of teenagers is battling with more seasoned criminals in a power struggle over the control of crime and drugs on Limerick City’s northside.

Christine Geoghegan turned the latch key on her new home in Moyross yesterday, opening a new life for her family and a social revival for the community.

A mystery caller has rung a missing persons hotline with information about a man believed to have been murdered 15 years ago.

A handgun was recovered by gardaí yesterday, during raids on homes, in an operation targeting criminal gangs in Limerick.

A dissident republican death plot had targeted the family of an Irishman serving in the British army, and not the soldier himself, it has emerged.