Mary Hogan dropped her six-year-old grandchild from an upstairs window into the arms of a waiting fireman after the Shannon burst through her home.

A 25-YEAR-OLD man was stabbed to death by a man he had been drinking with at his home, a murder trial heard yesterday.

Bomb-making material with sufficient force to cause a large bomb to explode was found by gardaí when they raided a house in Limerick city last November, the Special Criminal Court was told today.