A family from Templeglantine, West Limerick has won a national competition by leading energy provider Energia to find Ireland’s Most Christmassy Home.

Unions representing Expressway workers are to travel to towns and villages to drum up the support of rural dwellers as they fight a planned restructuring of the bus service.

Across the country rural towns and villages have suffered the loss of services, infrastructure, and population, but one thing that is not in decline is community spirit. In the first of a five-part series, we visit Tournafulla, Co Limerick, and see unwavering local determination to keep the village on the map.

The sun came out just in time to show up a dazzling array of colours and style on Ladies’ Day at rainy Killarney Races.

A separate, stand-alone compensation scheme for hen harrier designation is being sought by the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association (ICSA).

“Good selection of well-kept ales, super-friendly staff, comfy decor, open fire.”

In trying to further discredit participants who have taken part in the wave of recent protests across the country the government have tried to label them as members of Sinn Féin, and in the process are likening them to fascists. 

Lucky for Pat and Margaret Carey that ESB workers decided not to strike. They would have been hard pushed to power up the thousands of Christmas lights that adorn their house in Youghal, Co Cork.

A man in his 20s has died after a crash in Co Limerick.

A full-time carer in Limerick has found the perfect distraction to harsh budget cuts: Creating his own winter wonderland.

The world of traditional music is opening up to hundreds of Cork children who are getting in tune with flutes, banjos and concertinas.

A gang has been using a simple but effective method of “fishing out” money from donation boxes embedded in church walls.

THIEVES are now targeting churches and grottos.

A FARMER was sent back to Limerick Prison yesterday when he refused to give an undertaking to Limerick Circuit Court to stay away from a 40-acre farm he claims was left to him by bachelor brothers who died without leaving a will.

A JUDGE has ordered that a West Limerick farmer now in his sixth week in prison for contempt be brought before Limerick Circuit Court tomorrow.

CATTLE removed under garda escort from a farm last Thursday after their owner was jailed for refusing to leave the land have mysteriously returned to the hillside holding at Rathcahill, Templeglantine, Co Limerick.

WHAT seemed like a sequel to John B Keane’s play The Field played out on a thistle-pocked patch of land in west Limerick yesterday under the watchful eye of a force of gardaí.

LIMERICK Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins has launched a campaign to have all of west Limerick brought back into the new Limerick (county) constituency.

A CAMPAIGN group has been formed to press Limerick County Council to carry out road works on a blackspot which has claimed five lives in the past three months.

EVERY strand of Tommy Murphy’s short life was represented at the crash victim’s funeral yesterday in west Limerick.

THREE men, two in Co Limerick and another in Co Wexford, have become the first tragic victims of the arctic conditions.

Parts of Limerick have been hit by further flooding less than a week after torrential downpours caused millions of euros worth of damage in the town of Newcastle-West.

MORE than one-tenths of land in the country is being proposed for special hen harrier conservation measures, and IFA has warned farmers it could bring problems for them.

MISCANTHUS growers have welcomed the payment of establishment grants by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

WIZARD weaved his magic to claim Corn Na Feile at Abbeyfeale yesterday.

A 73-YEAR-OLD Co Limerick-born curate and his partner were in hiding at the home of a relative in Dundalk, Co Louth, last night with their two- month-old love child.

A DIET of blueberries and water from a stream helped 80-year-old Nora Mary King survive away from home for three days, her daughter said yesterday.

The 82-year-old woman who went missing from her home in Co Limerick last Thursday has been found alive and well.