Regiments in high-vis jackets swept across the highways and byways of Limerick city and county yesterday, leaving spick and span neighbourhoods in their wake.

Jimmy Woulfe canvasses with Willie O’Dea and finds knowledge of the local area is his number one asset.

WHEN it comes to job variety, Limerick man William O’Brien has had a broad career which has spanned training race horses to dealing in discarded women’s fashion.

IT was the first time for as long as the regulars could remember that Willie O’Dea wasn’t sitting in his usual spot in the Windmill Bar on Henry Street, where he holds a clinic every Friday at teatime.

TEN years after the disappearance of a Limerick man, his family have made a renewed appeal to solve the mystery which has featured on a TV series.