Friends of Thomas Ruttle had become concerned that his fraudster partner, Julia Holmes, had been trying in recent months to sell his family home in Co Limerick and move to Spain.

Julia Holmes’ odyssey of international fraud may end in a pauper’s grave in Co Limerick.

The couple found dead in a Co Limerick farmhouse on Monday are likely to have separate funerals, the Irish Examiner has learned.

It was apt that Killarney National Park should look its most blooming yesterday for an occasion to celebrate the life of someone whose family’s generosity led to its creation.

HAVING spent 30 years entertaining many thousands of visitors to Killarney as well as numerous official and cultural functions, the Gleneagle Concert Band will this weekend celebrate its three-decade milestone with an anniversary concert at St Mary’s Church of Ireland in the town centre.

CORK’S iconic Shandon church is to host its first fully paid concert later this month.

The State’s first official memorial to Garda Siochana members who died while on duty is to be unveiled next month by a local history committee on Co Tipperary.

YOUTHS in souped-up cars are terrorising residents in west Waterford according to a local TD.