Yesterday, thousands of people attended a four-hour public reposal of rock star Dolores O’Riordan in her native Limerick. The county has begun three days of mourning.

The dying wish of Angela’s Ashes author Frank McCourt has finally been granted as his family scattered his ashes in Limerick to coincide with the eighth anniversary of his passing.

You won’t be caught for space at 38 Richmond Wood. But you might be caught for time, if viewing at today’s 4-4.30 open viewing slot, via agents Sherry FitzGerald. 

A Dublin community is to hold a procession this evening to demand an end to feud violence and the devastation caused by the drug crisis.

The funerals of two of the six victims of Tuesday’s accident in Berkeley are to be held in California today.

“You had a smile for everyone, hands for boxing and a face for the ladies. We can’t picture our family without you.”

Families of the Stardust fire victims are preparing to seek leave for a judicial review of the Government’s continued endorsement of two reports into the fire that they say are seriously flawed.

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¦ Cork Alpine Hardy Plants Society present Sue Ward and Jennifer Harmer, both of Hampshire, England, and noted plants people, historians and designers to talk on: ”A Rainbow of people and plants”.

A health lab has warned priests of the dangers of ‘overcooking’ holy ashes after several mass-goers were scorched during Ash Wednesday ceremonies.

Last week, Adrian Donohoe should have been celebrating his birthday, surrounded by his wife Caroline and two children Amy and Niall.

Imelda Keenan’s eldest brother got on his knees and begged for the return of his sister during a graveside ceremony in Co Laois yesterday.

Upwards on 1,000 mourners turned out for the funeral of one of the founding members of Provisional Sinn Féin and a “towering figure of Irish republicanism” who was buried in brilliant sunshine in Co Donegal yesterday.

The respected traditional musician, poet, and writer Tomás Ó Canainn has died, aged 82.

A sports-loving lad who had been planning his next trip to Old Trafford for a Manchester United game in September, was laid to rest near the Cork/Kerry border yesterday after succumbing to a two-and-a-half year battle with cancer.

More than 1,000 mourners filled St Joseph’s Church on Nov 12, 2008, for the funeral Mass of Shane Geoghegan.

The death has occurred of former Young Munster President and provincial official, Joe Kennedy.

He quotes Bono, goes to the gym, and listens to Spin FM. Roisin Burke meets Limerick’s top cleric

From early morning they started to come — families, older people and, especially, the young. And the most striking thing about the place was the silence, broken only by birdsong and cars going by in the bright June sunshine.

On the day they buried their 5-year-old son, the Cork couple whose little boy died after a fireplace fell on him have said “it will be a long time, if ever, before we come to terms with what has happened”.

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THE late editor of the Sunday Independent Aengus Fanning was remembered yesterday as a newspaperman who had showed courage in exposing the hidden evils of Irish society.

THE tiny white coffin was decorated with Dora the Explorer stickers, but everyone attending five-year-old Mari Connolly’s funeral yesterday would have known her favourite colour was pink.

THE Health Service Executive has stepped in to help pay for a cancer patient’s life-saving surgery in the US.

A garda’s courage in tackling and disarming a gunman, who had just shot two people in a church, left him with nightmare flashbacks, a court heard today.

TWO young men who died after being struck by a car driven by an off-duty garda were yesterday laid to rest amid a continuing investigation into the incident.

IT was — well a white wedding.

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

BOB GELDOF had a lot to say about his dad at his funeral Mass yesterday, not just because he had lived such a long life.

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to a Limerick man who completed a solo around-the-world voyage when he was in his 70s.

AN innocent Dubliner shot during a bar-room dispute in Spain last month was described as “gentle giant” and “a big softie” at his funeral Mass yesterday.

DESPITE a few early showers the weather played its part beautifully for the celebrity wedding of the year.

A sister of one of the Bloody Sunday dead will grip the bloodstained handkerchief waved on the day as she is handed the long-awaited report into the killings, she revealed today.

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.

Debate rages as pubs make legal history by serving drink on Good Friday.

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 death has occurred of Jim Leddin, a member of a well-known Limerick political family.

THE tense stand-off between Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Bishop Donal Murray has intensified after the Bishop of Limerick challenged the charge that he wasn’t taking the views of the Archdiocese of Dublin on board.

The Bishop of Killaloe Willie Walsh has said he is "not going to stand in judgement" on the Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray.

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 Catholic bishop criticised for not investigating an allegation of child sex abuse today said that in response to calls for his resignation he would be guided by the priests and people of his diocese.